Andisheh Nouraee

My cousin Mahdad e-mailed some family photos from Iran yesterday.

Here’s a fun headline from last week’s Washington Post Abuse Review Exonerates Policy: Low-Level Leaders and Confusion Blamed In other words, top Pentagon officials investigated themselves and say that they didn’t do anything wrong. In a related story, “Andisheh is…

I’ve put a couple of new posts on MonkeySars, one on a 1942 musical called “Iceland,” the other about Jerry Orbach. Read them if you’d like.

Have you seen the commercial for the birth control pill ORTHO TRI-CYCLEN LO. (If not, you can watch it here.) The commercial depicts beautifully lit, attractive women walking around pretty settings in slow motion. Underneath the narration about the pill’s…

Today Reuters is confirming year-old reports that the biggest proliferator of nuclear weapons technology to the worst enemies of the U.S. is our so-called ally Pakistan. Here’s a snippet: Pakistan: Disgraced Scientist Gave Iran CentrifugesBy Zeeshan Haider ISLAMABAD (Reuters) –…

It’s so nice to see South Carolina’s retailers reaching out to Spanish-speaking consumers.

I snapped this one yesterday in Kennesaw, GA. I mean it — WTF?!?!

Area Dog Will Never Live Up To Dog On Purina Bag KANSAS CITY, MO — Although those close to Buster characterize him as a good boy, the area collie-rottweiler mix reported Monday that he will never live up to the…

I confess, I haven’t seen Million Dollar Baby or Mystic River. I’m into what the rappers might call Old Skool Eastwood. I love me some Dirty Harry and some Spaghetti Westerns. If banished to that weird desert island everyone talks…