Unqualified Offerings

Another thing that comes readily to old-media writers is promoting their wares. They learned to either get jobs or keep those submissions in the mail long ago. So when experienced reporter Howard Owens started his blog, he sent a bunch of us e-mails asking us to announce it. (He seems to imagine that a link [...]

Comes now the point where Unqualified Offerings really addresses what Steven Postrel identified as the central point of his original e-mail, which is linked somewhere below, and linked from Virginia Postrel’s site too. I’ve been dilatory in getting to this for a few reasons:
1) I do this in my spare time, after work and wife [...]

Anent the preceding, Ginger Stampley has reluctantly waded into the discussion of matters Middle Eastern. She has two meaty pieces this weekend that are worth everyone’s time. The first I linked to below. This morning’s piece elaborates on the vexed matter of ethnic cleansing and the limits of US support for Israel, including the strangely [...]

A passage in “What is the Opposite of a Stopped Clock,” below, could be taken as a boast that only Tony Adragna, Steven Postrel and Unqualified Offerings have had anything interesting to say about the Middle East, or even about the relative merits of creating a Palestinian state versus intensifying the occupation. That is far [...]

Leon Hadar writes to Tres Producers about matters Levantine but he doesn’t write to me. What, I get nothing for reading Liberty all these years?
What’s strange is that Hadar seems to give credence to the Jordanian Dream. One more time: Jordan gets what out of trying to clean up this mess, again?

Two of my favorite thinkers are Virginia Postrel and Ginger Stampley, and both have managed to get very nearly the same thing wrong. What are the odds? Virginia Postrel says specifically that
In his response [to Steven Postrel's proposal], Jim concentrated entirely on attacking the idea of “serious occupation” as an (undesirable but best available) alternative [...]

In which Unqualified Offerings takes its pathetic aping of Kausfiles one step further. Gary Farber links to a story about very bad places – psychiatric group homes in New York City
Stomach-turning, outrageous story of the horrific conditions of these places, many of which are larger than most state mental hospitals in other states. Endless paragraph [...]

Believe it or not, political commentators have been discussing Middle Eastern policy on the net. No, really! Would a site that constantly refers to itself in the third person lie to you? They have! Unqualified Offerings has owed Steven Postrel and the world a cleanup post from the “Scorpions and Undershorts” series – as it [...]

Unqualified Headquarters has a computer savvy kid, but the adults have traditionally held their own. However, let the record show that it was Offering Boy who figured out how to exit the Spiderman game for the PC. It was not a code problem, just – and Unqualified Offerings insists on this – confusing menus. That [...]

Three bass and a trout in an hour at Seneca Creek today downstream of MD 28. If you can find a better spring lure than a suspending Rapala in the Baby Bass pattern – buy it! (And tell Unqualified Offerings what you bought.)