March, 2005 Entries

March 31

    • Why did the Schiavo debate develop the way it did?
    • An Urban Legend about IMAX and the Christian Right is born…
    • The Great Nescafe Controversy, and tales of Starbucks Nightclub
    • So the Post and ABC botch a memo story, and it generates yawns...
    • Richard Perle: Is a ‘malicious effort’ behind the Mein Kampf sales?
    • Turkish deputy Mercan: 'We don't want availability of nuclear weapons in Iran. That's for sure.'
    • A ‘Spring thaw’ to U.S.-Turkish ties?

March 30

    • Today's dish of culture shock
    • Danforth on religion and politics
    • I'm sure those 'non-disruptors' just happened to wear those t-shirts that day
    • Whoa - Johnnie Cochran dead at 67
    • Bill Bradley believes in what he is saying -- I think

March 29

    • Isn’t it a little early for biannual “Democrats will win Florida” hype?
    • The TKS Turkish news/American news balance
    • Is an attempted flag-burning incident revealing a Turkish-Kurdish powderkeg?
    • Zarqawi surrounded?

March 28

    • Where is my fedora
    • The Scope of the City
    • Monument of the Republic
    • Hooray for Hard Work Monument
    • Early Hittite production of Ben Hur
    • Bull head of staff
    • Ataturk Bulvari on Saturday
    • Atakule Tower
    • The Fox Blocker, and the joys of Turkish television
    • Will blogs make a difference in the UK election?
    • Is the buzz of impending censorship spurring 'Mein Kampf' sales?

March 26

    • Schiavo roundup
    • I feel a great disturbance in the blogosphere
    • Perhaps the greatest headline ever
    • Should students be able to sue a professor for 'public ridicule'?

March 25

    • About the rumors of an upcoming election
    • A bit of a thaw in U.S.-Turkish relations?
    • “Mobying” angry Republican letters

March 24

    • I'm as popular as ever (with update)
    • Unfriendly Sign
    • Passions raging on the Schiavo case

March 23

    • A couple of readers who say Schiavo will sway their votes
    • Another item about recent poll numbers...
    • The Rathergate memo, Part Deux?

March 22

    • My one thought on the politics of Schiavo
    • Long game vs. short game on Social Security
    • Turks concerned about 'neocon' event at AEI
    • What Turkish columnists find 'arrogant, annoying, insulting'
    • The inevitable They Might Be Giants joke
    • He didn't like the speaker, but he thought the consul's wife is pretty
    • A reader tells me to hush about the EU decision

March 21

    • Odds and ends - guns, living next to dictators, and counterterrorism
    • Jonathan Klein changes his mind about the pajamahadeen
    • Does French hostility to Turkey provide the U.S. with an opportunity?
    • What's protocol for a guy with a submachinegun glaring at you?
    • I’ll take “Headlines I Never Thought I Would See” for 500, Alex
    • Will the Turks be disinclined to clash with Syria or Iran?
    • Are the Turks beginning to worry about their relationship with the U.S.?

March 18

    • Turkish statements on Holocaust remembrence and anti-Semitism
    • I arrive... and the Ambassador gets ready to leave
    • Your Humble Correspondent
    • White Mosque
    • McDonalds and Women on Street
    • McTurko
    • A Chicken Plots an Escape
    • Ankara Hilton
    • A Bit Smoggy This Morning
    • Hyperbole of the day
    • So that's why the riot cops were out
    • Turkish Land Forces Commander: Civilian leaders 'have no Iraq policy'
    • Outrage over the U.S. Ambassador clearing his throat, Day Five

March 17

    • When it comes to smoking, Turkey meets EU standards already
    • I'm sorry, what happened in this building six months ago?
    • Dog that isn't barking update
    • Turkish President to meet with Bashar Assad in April

March 16

    • A revolutionary excuse for those at high altitude, and other comments
    • I am alıve, and functıonıng ın Ankara

March 10

    • Could lefties target Lieberman in 2006?
    • Hillary defends traditional cultural values
    • The anti-FEC pushback continues

March 09

    • McCain, Feingold, Weintraub tell bloggers not to worry
    • Looking at yesterday's developments in Lebanon...
    • For those who can't get enough Dan Rather stuff...

March 08

    • Hooray for Hawkishness
    • Of course Democrats will say Bolton shouldn't go to the U.N.
    • Is the Turkish government finally warming up to the new Iraqi government?
    • No Gore in 2008?
    • Why would anyone want to head a University these days?

March 07

    • Bashar offers another fractional pullout
    • Bill Clinton said what at Davos?
    • Revealing comments from liberal magazine editors
    • Great - if it isn't Iraqi insurgents, it's Raki insurgents
    • Proudly giving yesterday's answers to today's questions

March 06

    • Lebanese Freedom Movement dispatches the 101st Smoldering Eyes Division
    • Yes, that was the first metaphor for Bashar Assad I thought of...

March 04

    • An FEC update
    • Post moving-day updates and links...

March 02

    • What the U.S. gains from a free and independent Lebanon

March 01

    • Today's photo selection question of the day
    • Not everybody is happy about Lebanon
    • Some late analysis on bin Laden
    • Dean: Yes, Social Security has a big problem

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