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The young, pudgy strongman towered over his starving midgets. And directed their gaze to the sky. But one skeptical man refused, and surveyed the scene, at ground level. Counted the costs of a system without checks. And balances. The staggering misallocation of capital that inevitably accompanies rule by the unelected. Indeed, the pudgy strongman’s army had recently lowered minimum height requirements to 4ft 9in R

Couldn’t find the right words. To defend his disappointing Presidency. And attack Romney. So he searched the world, for inspiration. Sarajevo celebrated another uneasy anniversary. Remember? 20 years ago, wolves devoured 100,000 lambs in Bosnia Herzegovina. Thousands fled Syria for Turkey (2,300 on Wed alone), as Assad swung his scythe in advance of the UN’s dubious Apr 10th ceasefire. America handed 25yrs to the Mer

Saw the Hunger Games. Read the book too. Weaves four all-time favorites – Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Lord of the Flies — into a killer tale. Be honest, who doesn’t love the underdog? Abhor the machine? The flick really hit a chord. Just look at those box office records. Hey, you see? China made arrests. Shut sites. State Internet Information Office announced a few rebellious souls had been “admon

Rat-a-tat-tat. What’s that? Rat-a-tat-tat. You hear that? Nope, me neither. But someone did, went all a twitter. Now the blogoshpere’s afire. With rumors, of a failed coup. In Beijing. Folks say they heard tanks rumble by. Planes in the sky. Oh my. But why? Well, power and money rarely shift hands without a hitch. A hanging chad. Ooops, I mean Chen. Or Chang. So, after Bo Xilai lost a power struggle, did his ally, Zh

The utterly corrupt leader. Of the hopelessly bankrupt nation. Addressed his angry people. And should’ve demanded an exit. But couldn’t. You see, there isn’t one. For now anyway. The incident shows “great oppression and cruelty” toward the Afghan people, said Karzai, hidden within his fortress. Of course, in due time, the oppressed rise up. And revolt. That’s the exit. It’s Mankind’s unending cycle. Hey, private Gree

Vladimir stood tall. In the cold. The crowd, weary from a long bus ride, cheered. Had little choice. And from deep within, something stirred. Something foreign. A tear. And as it welled up, in Putin’s icy blue eyes, he focused that finely tuned KGB muscle, on suppressing it. “Think happy thoughts,” he told himself. Indeed, it’d been a good week. A Tibetan mother of four, suffocating under Chinese re

Rome’s smartest mathematicians scanned the night sky. Back in 46BC. Searched the moon. The planets. Stars too. Crunched numbers. Built models, spun ’em round and round. Looking for the missing piece of a puzzle. But some problems are eternal. Defy solutions. And in the end, Julius Caesar’s boys agreed. “F’it,” they said, “just add a leap day every 4yrs, and be done with it.” Of course, Italian’s have fudged their num

He flew West to East. To save fuel. Growing up poor does that. Reflected back on his 6yr re-education, confined to a rural village, paying for father’s revolutionary crimes. And on his subsequent rise up Party ranks. Yeah, Xi Jingping reflected on the steep price his nation paid for its revolution. Anyhow, he landed first in California, checked his shipping-port infrastructure investments. Threw Hollywood a bone, dou

Take 64 Kilograms. No more, no less. Divide it in two. Load each half into opposite ends of a six foot pipe. Then smash ’em together, real hard. Wait 1 millisecond. Kaboom! A magical mushroom. And ever since Little Boy swallowed Uranium 235, back in ’45, big boys have looked at the world with fresh eyes. Yeah, nations either have, or have not. Critical mass that is. It’s all that matters you see, ’cause everyone has