< cynicism > First off — it’s great that Laura Ling and Euna Lee got home safe. Lucky them. It’s not an exaggeration to say that they escaped a fate just as horrible as those faced by the victims of Hitler’s concentration camps. It pretty much looks like a win-win situation. Two big dummies got [...]

I became a regular Guardian reader when I lived in London. Not necessarily because I agreed with every word printed on its pages, but because it attracts some of the sharpest wits in Journalism, especially among its reviewers. Thanks to the Interwebz, I can now read The Guardian, although I don’t do it as often [...]