Juan Cole's dark sense of humor brings us Iraq-themed chicken jokes. This being about Iraq, things do not usually go very well for the chicken. Let's hope Heidi Bond doesn't see these.
Recent Bluessky Posts- Took an awful long time and the media is still not very good about it, but at least they're very occasionally calling a Trump lie a lie. Now please can we call a big lie a big lie? www.broadstreetreview.com/essays/as-th... July 2, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- From Lincoln's remarks on the meaning of July 4th, delivered July 10th, 1858: Immigrants and those descended from them "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are." www.uvu.edu/ccs/docs/lin... July 2, 2026 Bill Kristol
- Anyone asked Paxton about this yet? July 1, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- My suspicion is that Instagram is far more responsible for the upsurge in antisemitism than Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Frankly a lot of the daily antisemitism I’ve encountered has nothing to do with Gaza, just jokes about Jews and money, Jews controlling everything, etc. July 1, 2026 Will Stancil
- Political scientist here: this is not funny, democracies only do this when they're in extreme distress July 1, 2026 Robert (Bob) Kubinec
Put this up the other day:
Rumskull:
Reports that say that the chicken crossed the road are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known chickens; there are chickens we know we know. We also know there are chicken unknowns; that is to say we know there are some chickens we do not know. But there are also unknown chickens the chickens we don’t know we don’t know.
(For which he won this award)