Unqualified Offerings

On the other hand, the Donk seems to be…well, an Oxfordian. At the very least, determinedly anti-Stratford. But there’s good and bad in everyone.

Let’s say you were the Government, which meant that you were inclined to lie, shade and generally make stuff up if you thought it would enhance your status and interests, and that you were as inclined to do this overseas as domestically. And you recently put out a bunch of planted news stories because you’d [...]

Unqualified Offerings has not gotten caught up in the Stephanie Dupont craze. But (he’s everywhere!) the Illuminated Donkey has – and how. If you read only one blog post this year, it must be – one of mine. Let’s not get carried away. However, check out this “interesting adventure in paranoid thinking,” and googling, complete [...]

The Illuminated Donkey has the last word we citizens are likely to get on the momentarily-famous “Egyptian Radio” case. Millenium Hotel security guard Ronald Ferry pled guilty to lying to the FBI about finding the radio in the safe in Egyptian diplomat offspring Abdallah Higazy’s room safe after the attack on the World Trade Center [...]

The Great Texas Blog Outage is over. Both Virginia Postrel and Ginger Stampley are back on the job after their respective bouts with actual productive work and the flu. Rejoice, World, and get thee thither, if you ain’t yet gotten.
Side note: While neither Virginia nor Ginger would fit the title, wouldn’t a great Austin Lounge [...]

Remember reading that the lesson that the bin Ladenites among the mujahidin took from the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan was that superpowers were vulnerable, so therefore the US was vulnerable too? Unqualified Offerings found itself thinking of that and this recent offering about conference Super Bowl streaks at the same time today:
But if you start [...]

So Michael Jordan may be done for the season and, let’s face it, may be done for his third basketball career. The (radio) talk in DC is whether he returns to the Wizards’ front office or lights out for the territory.
It’s a truism in basketball journalism and punditry that if Jordan doesn’t return to his [...]

Tonight I was riding with my friend Frederick Pollack, one of the country’s best poets and a lifelong Marxist.
“Fred,” I told him, “I find myself using the word ‘imperialist’ unironically lately.”
“Are you well?”
Then on the ride home, we were discussing the history of European Jewry, about which Fred knows rather a lot. That required an [...]

It occurs to me we could do something useful with this benevolent hegemony I keep hearing about. If we intrigue on behalf of Quebec independence, the breakup of the Canadian federation would divide the talent pool just enough to give the US the talent edge it needs in Olympic hockey. Getting rid of the Soviet [...]

Everybody does it, though they say it lowers your resistance to colds and if you do it too much, you go blind. When I sign some disagreeable petition and you want dirt, here are the Jim Henleys I am and am not:
I am
The roleplaying game geek Jim Henley
The poet Jim Henley
The computer-game Front Page Sports [...]