About Avi Kramer

  U.S. airstrike kills 25 Afghan civilians. [Guardian Unlimited] Wealthy gays say queer pride is boring. [The New York Observer] War crimes verdict delivered in Sierra Leone. [The Economist] Crocs: suspect. Crocs and socks: forget it. (It's also W's new … Read More

Jose Canseco writes in his tell-all book that steroids in baseball were "as prevalent in the late 1980s and 1990s as a cup of coffee." Sammy, widely accused of juicing, issued the statement in 2005 that he had "never injected … Read More

U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill first top official to visit Pyongyang in 5 years. [NY Times] Nantucket, Mass police say you ain't documented (and take that posing ACK sticker off your beat-up car). [The Inquirerer and Mirror] "There's talk of a … Read More

The Washington Times writes that Israel is trapped between 3 pro-Iran entities, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas: "Now the chances for a Palestinian settlement remain stuck at minus zero. Extremists have displaced pragmatists. Moderation doesn't pay in today's Middle East; violence … Read More

Classroom mindfulness Fatah coup? YouTube on your $500 phone Shimon Peres and a convicted spy Communist chic in Berlin hotel

Michael Moore's team transported former Grand Zero workers to Cuba for free health care Trojan's condom-toting pigs An L.A. Times series on Jerusalem 40 years after the 1967 war China to show off Olympic torch at Everest via $20 million … Read More

Gal Gadot, featured today on invitations for the joint Israeli Consulate/Maxim publicity event.

To follow up on Michael's post below: Ari Berman's new go-to bookmark, Conflicts Forum pays tribute to Donald Rumsfeld's theory of Islamist blowback. Rumsfeld told Bush not to fund Fatah because doing so would only inflame regional politics in Gaza. … Read More

In their ongoing war of attrition in Darfur, the Khartoum regime has handily benefitted from China's free-flowing supply of money, weaponry and weapons technology. The relationship between the two countries—with China's huge thirst for Sudan's oil and investment in Khartoum's … Read More