This is just a quick link to follow -- an “aside.” These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn’t place into a full posting. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Winfield Myers: Juan Cole’s Crooked Tales of Hormuz - ‘Writing in his well-trafficked blog on Friday, University of Michigan Middle East studies professor Juan Cole illustrates the baleful consequences of the media’s reliance on Cole and other Middle East studies professors of his ilk to explain the Middle East to Americans: it makes possible the wide dissemination of a distorted, conspiracy-laden picture of that highly volatile region...’