Archive for May 16th, 2007
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
The Return of Suck
This has been a bit of a rough week, what with the endless porntroversy and all. And so I cheer the triumphant, one week, limited engagement return of Suck, the only internet magazine that mattered (at least, if your friends were all sleeping under desks at a start-ups in 1999)*, a small bright light in [...]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
More on the Gaza Meltdown
Every time you think it can’t get worse, it does:
Hamas gunmen fatally shot six bodyguards from the rival Fatah movement Wednesday and mistakenly ambushed a jeep carrying their own fighters, killing five of them, in the bloodiest day of Palestinian infighting since violence erupted in the Gaza Strip four days ago.
Militants from the hardline Islamist [...]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Collapsing Authority
And so the low-grade civil war, in fact, continues:
A third day of deadly clashes between Hamas and Fatah fighters suggests that the Palestinian unity government, put together under Saudi auspices at the end of March, is something of a fiction.
It never got off to a serious start, and as this week’s resignation of the independent [...]
