Unqualified Offerings

[This week's poem actually deals with a libertarian red meat issue. I was very happy that the Hudson Review chose to publish this (in 1998), as it flouted my assumptions about what even the best sort of New York magazine would print. The actual visit took place in January 1996, when my friend Bruce Fleming [...]

Wendy McElroy is a little alarmed at the possibility that the War of 1812 may have been for naught.

Jim of Objectionable Content tips Unqualified Offerings to the fact that Jess Nevins’ annotations for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume II, Issue 2 are up. That suggests that it’s high time UO get itself to a comic book store again, since it does not yet have issue 2.
Jim further notes that he found this information [...]

Tony Adragna urges Congress to remove Major League Baseball’s anti-trust exemption.
Baseball is not a monopoly. Its competitors include the NFL, the NBA, college football, college basketball, hockey (look! straight face!), soccer (okay, let’s not get carried away), the X-Games, amusement parks, movie theaters, DVDs, concerts, whitewater rafting and just hanging out in the back yard. [...]

The Talking Dog thinks Jackie Mason should have kept Palestinian comedian Ray Hanania on the bill but used his headline status to subject Hanania to bullying and unfunny japes onstage.

Ginger Stampley wants you to know she’s having plenty of fun, thanks.

When Unqualified Offerins saw the first press reports this morning on Freedom Forum’s poll on American attitudes toward the first amendment, it wished, as happens occasionally, that it were not a confirmed non-drug-using non-drinker. (Link via Counterspin.) Now that it has seen the actual survey results (PDF here) it is far less worried. (Link via [...]

In an interesting post, Kathy Kinsley explains why she has been excerpting odd bits of “Islamist” doctrine from available websites. I’m not sure the effect equals the intention, but it’s good to have her thinking laid out. For my part, I disfavor the term “Islamist,” after some consideration. The term I prefer for our actual [...]

Fixed a bunch of stupid typos in posts from yesterday evening forward. Yuck!

Radical anti-interventionist historian Joseph Stromberg is having a contest to name the big war, the one the hawks want us to fight against everyone who ever looked at the US cross-eyed. Unqualified Offerings favors, of course, The Million Mom War, though for some weeks it considered the “Trojan War,” in honor of its supposed prophylactic [...]