This blog has seen its ups and downs since October of 2003 debut. It went from approximately no readers in the first year to right around a million readers over the course of 2005, after it became the first blog to field its own semi-regular White House correspondent, the inestimable Eric Brewer, who asked some [...]

Do a Google News search on the name of Afghan warlord Rashid Dostum and the odds are sterling that the results will include bad news from Afghanistan.
The Dostum factor was the subject of one of my first BTC News posts, back in October of 2003. The search that week turned up a BBC News [...]

Alien vs. Predator, Rocky vs. Whoever, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Kramer vs. Kramer … the cinema world is replete with films about the conflicts between archetypal enemies. Sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re bad, but one thing they generally share is a run time between 80 and 180 minutes.
Not so with my dream film. Buffy vs. Bella [...]