Unqualified Offerings

Looking Sideways at Your World Since October 2001

Archive for September 30th, 2002

Monday, September 30th, 2002

Tommy This and Tommy That

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 [...]

Monday, September 30th, 2002

Have Some Pride

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. [...]

Monday, September 30th, 2002

It’s Not the Settlements, a Continuing Series

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.”

Monday, September 30th, 2002

A Fanboy’s Letters

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 [...]