Current Events

From Kieran Healy at Crooked Timber:

Nouri al-Maliki pardoned Saddam Hussein to promote national healing and move on, Gerald Ford is making one last appearance at the Apollo theater, and James Brown will shortly be buried at Arlington cemetery, his long reign of terror having come to an end at last.

The rest of the post, an extended quotation from Joshua Michah Marshall, is worth a read, too. Check it out.