Unqualified Offerings

Nobilis has reached US warehouses and is supposed to be two weeks away from stores. Spiderman opens in three days. And the new Elvis Costello record is discussed, sometimes savagely, here and here. UO hasn’t had a chance to listen yet; but be warned, it thought The Juliet Letters a masterpiece, though a lot of [...]

Objectionable Content has a lot to say about a lot of different stuff, and damned if he isn’t going to try to say it in a single post!
And speaking of tiny fonts, Christ, Jim, do something, huh?

David Kimche, former Rabin aide, former Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Iran-Contra figure and architect of Ariel Sharon’s disastrous Lebanon invasion in the early 1980s, not only thinks separation (UO still prefers “disgorgement”) is a good idea, he’s committed his organization to gathering a million Israeli signatures in favor of the idea.
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Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan…
Osama bin Laden was able to escape the clutches of US troops in Afghanistan thanks to a powerful military commander currently serving with the Afghan government, a rival warlord said.
Commander Hazrat Ali helped the alleged terrorist mastermind flee from the eastern Tora Bora mountains during an intense US-led offensive last December, strongman [...]

Michael Isikoff, whom conservatives and libertarians thought was a pretty good reporter when he was being inconvenient to Bill Clinton, says that the only story that seemed to tie the September hijackers directly to Iraq is…a load of crap.
Then, in the chaotic days after September 11, a Czech intelligence source inside Prague’s Middle Eastern community [...]

Ginger has a lengthy post about weblog design, text readability, font size and browser compatibility. She says she even increased her font size recently at the best of Gary Farber. It makes me wonder if my own font size is too small. (We keep nice narrow columns here, as we’ve mentioned many times.) I’m going [...]