A Spoon-Bending Spy, Pay Gap Gaps, China’s German Ghost City, Huma, No French Ice And Pseudoscience

Uri Geller Was A CIA Spy

Gender Pay Gap: 

The familiar line that “women make 77 cents to every man’s dollar” simply isn’t accurate.

China’s German Ghost City

The Huma Unmentionables

Ice Cold Drinks in Paris: 

The Search For Cool Cocktails

This Is What Pseudoscience Looks Like

From Red Lipstick To Telling Some Punk What's-What

A Second Life for Seconds, the 1966 Cult Classic That Made Audiences Sick

Column: What the Clintons tell us about American democracy

Bodybuilders Think This Dude Is Too Ugly to Get Hot Girls

21 Must-See Documentaries & Interviews on Filmmaking

Sex tourism: Thought it was just men who flew abroad for squalid sexual kicks? Meet the middle-aged, middle-class women who are Britain's female sex tourists

On Forgetting the Obvious

CIA 'helped Saddam Hussein carry out chemical weapons attack on Iran' in 1988 under Ronald Reagan

Fleetwood Mac Guitarist Bob Welch Commits Suicide

6 Hit Songs You Won't Believe Are Insulting Celebrities

Conservative Prof. Has Awesome Response to Guy Who Called Him the ‘Biggest Embarrassment to Higher Education in America’

Is It Too Late To Suggest Cons Get Sober On Politics?

 

What's wrong with this discussion? Something's missing. Something - to his credit - I don't see Obama forgetting:

   

It's interesting that, because Obama is a domestic failure, he's also seen as a klutz in Middle East policy. The truth is, that's been one area where he's brilliantly following the U.S.' long-term strategy, to-the-letter. I don't know what Bush told him, or the Pentagon, or the C.I.A., but - whatever it was - he listened. 

It's a reason liberals distrust him - and their distrust is a reason conservatives smell political opportunity where they shouldn't. Even with all our bickering, we shouldn't have to wait until something goes wrong, to rally together around a good idea. There should be times when the gamesmanship stops.

Risking our nation's interests, toying with a man, gains us nothing,...