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It’s probably a sign of something salutary in the culture that a popular new song on country radio involves prison, bloodhounds, the murder of a cheatin’ spouse and a jailbreak, even if the song isn’t all that great. The tune is just Garth Brooks’ “Rodeo” salvaged in an episode of musical dumpster diving. The “clever [...]

The CDC expects West Nile Virus cases to peak soon, according to MSNBC. That means the Republic may be spared.

THE U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 75 new cases on Thursday, bringing the year’s total cases to 555.

The population of the U.S. on April 1, 2000 was 281,421,906.

The virus, which can cause encephalitis, [...]

Eve Tushnet says the libraries she volunteers in are much better than the “average” libraries UO maligned below. She likes the idea of alternative library providers though.
She continues to worry the Allan Bloom rock bone to good effect too.

The Redskins are losing to New England 14-0 so far. Good. Unqualified Offerings does not believe preseason success is totally meaningless. But it firmly believes that a team benefits from a conspicuous preseason failure in either the last or next-to-last game. Keeps players from getting a swelled head. Aids – what was that coachspeak word? [...]

Needless to say, for Saddam to want to risk giving possibly-disloyal terrorists nukes to sneak into the US, he would have to figure he stands to gain something thereby. So would the terrorists. Something besides ruin the best market for his country’s sole export. One reason for a non-interventionist foreign policy is to reduce the [...]

Reader Munham Yam too is relieved that the Olympics will be giving DC-Baltimore a miss. He writes

As a fellow metro Washington DC resident (and bug-chucker; didn’t notice the fishing part of the blog) I too exult in our loss of the Olympic bid. Hooray! Less traffic! Less tourists! No bonus attention from terrorists!
I [...]

Selenously pseudonymous Diana Moon of Letter from Gotham e-mails to draw my attention to this piece on Saddam and deterrence (as if I didn’t read her, faithfully, every day!). Diana notes that

…not all rational people come to the same conclusions when faced with the same facts. Take a look at the history of science. Scientific [...]

Unqualified Offerings has two last installments from your Talking Dog for the week. TD is back in his Talking Dog House as of today. As always, the Talking Dog comes to you in hard-hitting, unexpurgated, unedited-by-UO form. Here was Wednesday’s missive:

Continued thanks for allowing me into your (blog) home. It [...]

Between UO’s gaming night and Mrs. Offerings’ birthday celebrations, this site is behind on some interesting mail that came in yesterday, including the latest from your Talking Dog. More tonight, though that birthday continues, so it’s not clear how much more tonight.

Unqualified Offerings has been planning an item called “Intervention: The Socialism of Kings,” comparing the utopianism of the uberhawks to the utopianism of, well, commies. But UO takes its time getting around to these things and now Jim of Objectionable Content has largely written it. It’s tucked into a piece called “Stop hating imperialism or [...]