The Kurds are an ethnic group indigenous to a region often referred to as Kurdistan, an area that includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Kurdish communities can also be found in Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan (Kalbajar and Lachin, to the west of Nagorno Karabakh) and, in recent decades, some European countries and the United States (see Kurdish diaspora). They speak Kurdish, an Indo-European language of the Iranian branch. There are many different and diverging views on the origin of the Kurds. While Encyclopaedia Britannica considers the Kurds' ethnic origins as uncertain and Encarta relates them to other Iranian peoples, according to Encyclopedia Columbia, Kurds are commonly identified with the ancient Corduene which was in turn inhabited by the Carduchi.

Fun times over the holidays! Ate some turkey, drank some nog. Met a psycho. Merry madness! World, meet Brute. (Not his real name, not his real photo. (He would probably joust that this picture looks more like me. (But it's the rage and size of his maw that makes this the perfect match.))) Brute! Mayhap I'll have words on this character later.

Madison: a place where bowling a few frozen turkeys for charity causes enough outrage that, within 24 hours, organizers switch to tofu.

The post-Thanksgiving bargain hunt inches ever closer to madness. The newest iteration of this mass hysteria is the craze for posting leaked "Black Friday" ads and signage on the web, and hence, the possibility of self-leaks by retailers wanting to get a jump on the Turkey Day advertising circular in the local paper. It seems like both companies a

This is MADNESS

Bush and Congress will anger China with tribute to the Dalai Lama, but are gutless when it comes to standing up to Turkey over the Armenian genocide resolution. So the president is willing to anger China and members of Congress jostle each other to get a photo-op with the Dalai Lama, but they don't want to make Turkey mad over historical facts.