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...comforter awaiting us at the hotel, I find myself instead dozing off on a sidewalk curb. One of our friends has just gotten a flat tire and a drunken five-man team is attempting to fix it. Even the pack of cigarettes I ingested over the past few hours isn't enough to keep me awake through this comedy...

Author: By Lena Chen | Title: 24 Hours in Belgrade | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...hate the fact that when a man does something idiotic and criminal resulting in the death of a child, that isn't held out as some Searing Indictment of Modern American Fathers, but a woman's colossal, tragic screw-up somehow does end up reflecting on all her fellow mothers," says Carole Morrell, author of the popular parenting blog DrunkenHousewife.com. "In this particular instance, I'm sure this will confirm the belief held by many that a mother should never drink around her children, ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moms Who Drink: No Joking After the Schuler Tragedy | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...outcome of the trial was unsurprising. "I'm afraid the verdict will be painfully obvious," Suu Kyi was heard to say in court last month. But she isn't going to prison. According to recent reports, she was stockpiling Winston Churchill's biographies and other books in anticipation of jail time. "If you are going through hell," Britain's wartime leader famously said, "keep going." Suu Kyi and her supporters can do little else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Court Finds Aung San Suu Kyi Guilty | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...inspired" because it seemed less than likely that I'd be able to procure all the ingredients necessary for a truly authentic Chinese meal. While Osnabrück boasts a significant Turkish population like many German cities, it isn't exactly what I'd call a diverse place. I've spent nearly two months here in the past year and have seen exactly three Asian people, all of whom worked in the single decent Chinese restaurant in town (a strangely upscale establishment compared to the ones I'm used to frequenting in America). So when I chose Chinese...

Author: By Lena Chen | Title: Eating In | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Orly Taitz is an attorney. She's also a real estate agent. And a dentist. But when Taitz isn't in court, showing homes or drilling teeth, she's become the wide-eyed queen of the so-called birther movement - that subset of individuals who still, despite all evidence, don't believe Obama was born a citizen of the United States. She's leading the calls for Hawaii to release Obama's "true" birth certificate (though Hawaii has already released Obama's Certification of Live Birth) and has even produced what she purports to be Obama's true Kenyan birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orly Taitz | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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