MORE »

The Turks are so angry that a House committee declared their 1915 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians a genocide, they’re going kill all the Kurds. [NYT]

A House resolution that would recognize the 1915 Armenian Genocide as, well, a genocide is running into some problems: America’s strategic interests! You see, we are best (strategic) buds with the internationally despised Turks, because they let us use an air base. And as we all know, access to air bases trumps symbolic recognition of unthinkable acts of evil every time. MORE »

Even guys who start endless wars everywhere are still vaguely human, at least in the sense of having limbs and feet and such. That’s the charming message of this photo montage from the Associated Press, which shows Neocon All Star Paul Wolfowitz at a mosque in Turkey, where he was meeting with extremists to plan new attacks on America. Best known for grooming his hair with his own saliva, today’s photo shows his personal habits are no better on the other end. MORE »

On this Thanksgiving Eve, we want to remind Americans that all presidents look like twits during the annual Turkey Pardon Photo Op. Here’s Harry Truman, reportedly forced by the National Turkey Federation to start the dumb tradition, thus ensuring that other popular Thanksgiving main courses of the time — ham, roast beast, parsnips, etc. — would fall by the wayside. The Turkey Industry was the Jack Abramoff of 1947.

So many more, after the jump.

MORE »