Unqualified Offerings

Unqualified Offerings frequently sees fellow bloggers alluding to receiving “hate mal” or just “nasty messages.” For some reason, that never happens to UO. The following letter is probably the single harshest e-mail this website has ever received, and even it crosses no bounds of propriety that UO would enforce, for all the excess of its [...]

Remember the classic SNL skit, The Sinatra group, featureing a bunch of musicians in a McLaughlin-like roundtable? (Look! I find transcript for you! Blogs have many fine links, yes?) At one point Sinatra tells Luther Campbell that “You don’t need to work blue! You’ll never play the big rooms with that crap. Ask Redd Foxx. [...]

Gary Farber finds an important article in Ha’aretz and draws the obvious conclusions.
UPDATE: Warning – Blogger anchors seem to be on the fritz again. Look for the Amygdala item titled “THE PERNICIOUSNESS OF THE CURRENT ISRAELI SETTLEMENT POLICY.”

Interesting e-mails re “A Fanboy’s Notes: the Morality of Power” below.
Reader/Gaming Buddy Greg Pearson writes:

…in regards to Unqualified Offerings’ superhero/villain post, the answer to that question would be Wildstorm’s The Authority by Warren Ellis (another entry on my three best comics of all time), which is based on exactly that premise. True, Ellis and [...]

(This poem was published by Poetry Ireland Review in 1993. To forestall any outbreaks of cognitive dissonance I should remind readers that I supported Gulf War I at the time, and for several years afterward.)
Kuwaitis at the Beach

Armistice Day, 1991

Pieces of what we thought was the city
litter the ground.
The scraps of metal, bright as money,
jutting [...]

Here’s what purports to be the complete text of Amiri Baraka’s “Who Blew Up America.” The lines are short but the poem is long. It is not, repeat not, an “aggrieved black poet with dementia” parody by the Onion. It is not the work of Scrappleface. The link is included for completists only, since there’s [...]

Unqualified Offerings is “blood on the tracks.” And that’s a good thing!

This week’s reading assignment is Killing Monsters, by Gerard Jones, and this week’s assignee is Eric Garris of Antiwar.com, who, on the evidence of his imprecation against a new GI Joe toy in the Penney’s catalog, could really learn something.

Bruce Rolston of Flit weighs in. Gary Farber avers that he added an addendum to his original piece responding to Flit, but UO is darned if it can find it.

As of this CNN.com story, we are officially past the point where you can believe anything you hear about the Turkish smuggling incident. Now we are told that:
o The Turkish police let the two suspected smugglers go for “lack of evidence.” They’ve disappeared. (The smugglers, not the Turkish police.)
o The official 150g, nee [...]