Liberia & The Mercenaries

The usual updates on what’s happening in Liberia, plus the skinny on the Equatorial Guinea coup plot and its aftermath.

• Checking In On Liberia
• A Planeful of Trouble
• A Planeful of . . . Bounty Hunters?
• Charles Taylor: Unhunted but Poor
• Liberia Update: Disarmament, Taylor, Bout
• Mercenary Update
• The Charles Taylor-Al Qaeda Connection
• The Zim 70’s Looming Trial
• More on Charles Taylor and Al Qaeda
• Thatcher and the Mercenaries
• Mercenary Update: Sentences and the Wonga List
• Liberia Update: Striker for President

Politics & War

Mostly the former, including plenty of election coverage that I’d just as soon forget.

• A Dream of the Primaries
• Seizing Arab Oil
• Inauguration Day 2001
• The Privatization of War
• Two Redheads
• A Dream of the Election
• Zell’s Scary Speech
• The Positive Case for Kerry
• Another Diverted Flight
• The Debate
• VP Debate
• The Second Presidential Debate
• The Third Presidential Debate
• The Choice
• Movement Conservatism: An Obituary
• Aftermath

Elanoriana & Parenthood

The usual home for this sort of thing is Cerin Amroth, but occasionally it seeps through.

• Babyface
• Report from Azkaban
• Stay At Home Dads Online
• Incredible

The Polytropos Review

Books, comics, music, movies, TV, games: nothing is safe.

• The Book of the New Sun
• The Confusion
• Vacation Comics Roundup
• Walden
• An Early Foray into Kiddie Lit
• Craic Wisely
• They Might Be Giants: A Personal Discography
• The Princes of Power Pop
• The Spine
• The Passion of the Christ
• Promoting The Passion (see also tangents in “Slippery Symbols” parts one and two)
• Tarantino’s At It Again. Volume II
• Spider-Man 2
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• The Return of the King
• Smallville
• Firefly
• The West Wing, Then and Now
• Netflix TV Roundup: Smallville and Six Feet Under
• Board Game Review
• The Lament of an FPS Fogey
• Board Game Bulk
• Roll the Bones
• Laissez-Faire Narrativism
• Halo 2 and The Choice
• Back to Backgammon

Miscellany

It wouldn’t be the “blog of twists and turns” if things were easy to categorize, would it?

• Surrounded by Smarts: My Introduction to Pro Wrestling
• Unsettling News (see also Calling It Off)
• Used Bookstores (see also In Defense of Shelfworthiness)
• A Slave to Sandal Fashion
• WWII Memorial
• Local Burrito Ratings
• ‘Take You Out For Sushi,’ ifyouknowwhatimean (see also Puzzlewatch, Week 2)
• The Passing of Common Grounds
• My Highly Amusing Background Check Anecdote
• iPod