WTF Friday 2/11/11
All this revolution stuff has got Joe Biden “fired up” to bring us a piping fresh, hot metaphor: “All of this began when a fruit vendor in Tunisia, fed up with an indignity of a corrupt government and...
View ArticleLara Logan’s Tragic Sexual Assault: Apparently the Fault of CBS News, for...
Tellingly, the first person to send me the story about Lara Logan’s sexual assault and beating did so in an email whose subject line read “this story is horrible, but I think the comments are even...
View ArticleSome Great Comments, Deserving Of Their Own Post
Man, you guys are awesome – my Lara Logan post from last week got some really excellent comments. I recommend you go check out the whole debate for yourself if you haven’t already, but here are some...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 4/29/11
Uh, not exactly great timing, dude. Invitations to the royal wedding appear arbitrary, but the feelings hurt are not! Say it ain’t so, Egypt. Just when I thought I knew you guys… This dude “laughs” at...
View ArticleWTF Friday 12/2/11
Vladimir Putin appeals to voters and politicians to not “make politics a circus.” Yea, this guy. I though this article was actually going to explain how Egyptian voters have figured a way to “boycott...
View Article“With a Smile on His Face”: New Account of Sexual Assault in Tahrir Square
Another day, another revolution in Egypt. And with that new revolution comes a new outbreak of mass sexual assaults against women in Tahrir Square. This is not a new phenomenon. In February 2011, CBS...
View ArticleEgyptian Military Deploys Unstoppable Army of Nationalist Tots
The Egyptian military would like you to know that its primary activities these days consist of kissing adorable small children on the cheek, accepting bouquets of flowers, and dance-marching to a...
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Activist of the Week: Alaa Abd Al-Fattah
Happy Martin Luther King week! (Yes, it’s a week. I make the rules ’round these parts. Shush your face.) Rather than focus on King himself, though, it seems more relevant for this blog to honor his...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 6/5/2015
Yes, it’s technically Saturday, and we’re in the final stages of dissertation writing here at KCF HQ, but I couldn’t resist a very special tunnel-themed WTF Friday. Item 1: The Egyptian military has...
View ArticleWTF Friday, 10/7/2016
…And, we’re back. Just in time, too, because everything is totally batshit f-ing crazy. If it’s not perennial WTF Friday star Rodrigo Duterte proclaiming Hitler as his own personal role model, it’s his...
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