Oct 31st, 2008 · Freshman Congresswoman Michele Bachmann seemed to be on a sure path for reelection. But the Minnesota Republican made headlines by suggesting Barack Obama and other members of Congress may be anti-American. Since then, her election prospects have since taken a sharp turn for the worse.
Aug 12th, 2008 · In Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller portrays a movie star who potrays a cognitively disabled character. Stiller plays the part for laughs, but some are put off by the use of the word "retard."
Aug 7th, 2008 · Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind says that the war in Iraq was based not simply on blunders but on lies. His book, The Way of the World, accuses the Bush administration of burying critical information and forging a letter that linked Iraq to the September 11 attacks.
Jun 30th, 2008 · A U.S. Army report criticizes the planning and aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Army's official history of the war says the biggest single blunder was Gen. Tommy Franks' decision to send the leaders of the Baghdad invasion into Kuwait and put a less experienced officer and less well-resourced team in its place.
May 27th, 2008 · Somehow, seafood always tastes better in the summer, and this book, says T. Susan Chang, is like "having your smart aunt in the kitchen, saving you from your own foolish, blundering self." Why not start with Key West Ceviche or center a meal on the Grilled Dorade with Hoisin Glaze?
Apr 19th, 2008 · Everyone's had those moments when learning a new language where they mean to say one thing, but say something completely different. Listeners share their most embarrassing foreign language flubs.
Sep 1st, 2007 · In his new work of "applied blunderology" UmÂ…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean journalist and linguistics specialist Michael Erard categorizes blunders, investigates why we make them and serves up a generous amount of slips, malapropisms and even Bushisms.
May 23rd, 2007 · Khalid el-Masri is a German citizen who was kidnapped by the CIA and kept in an Afghan prison for four months in early 2004. Legalities aside, it was a blundered rendition - the CIA got the wrong guy - but that hasn't made el-Masri's life any easier in the years since he returned home and has been trying to seek justice.