#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts

* Below the Mendoza Line

* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer

* Stallone’s Bergman period

* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?

* The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books

* An especially bad Munich analogy

* NATO, NATO, NATO

* Purely defensive? Well…

* Perhaps it made sense at the time…

* The Olympic graveyard

* A test for the post-war European left

* Won’t somebody just *do something*

* In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg

* The politics of DC crime

* A city of Haley Barbours

* Writing shirtlessly: A fantastically awful AP article on DC

* Some notes on Ken Burns

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