Thursday, August 19, 2010

On the Mix Tape, II

So I've been away for a while. Truth be told, I've been despairing quite a bit lately -- this idiotic mosque "controversy," Iraq's decline and the utter failure of its government to arrest it, what appears at the moment to be an Afghanistan effort circling the drain, and on and on. It's been a tough August. Thank God for Michael Franti and Spearhead to help arrest my blues.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Can We Finally Put This One to Bed?


Christian Caryl has been reading Tom Barfield's great new book.

I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Barfield back in December. There are few people who know more about Afghanistan than he does.