Unqualified Offerings

Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Glenn Reynolds picked up and carried forward a phrase Unqualified Offerings tossed off last week in the context of the sniper shooting, that we citizens needed to be “a pack, not a herd,” and that by treating us as a herd, police were endangering us by their paternalism. Patrick’s discussion on [...]

I am God. We recently furthered the cause of Islam by shooting and robbing a beauty shop owner in Baton Rouge, thus terrorizing “an ever thickening ring around the nation’s capital.” This Jihad stuff is great! We simply do exactly the same sort of stuff that violent drifters in a downward spiral have done as [...]

Boy, these items have gotten a lot less…frantic. And that’s a good thing. This morning’s Post reports that the famous rifle was used in the Alabama slaying after all. Early reports were that it was a different gun. Early reports also stated that the police found a handgun in the blue Caprice, which turns out [...]

Some interesting mail came in about UO’s piece on Saturday’s antiwar march item. (Perhaps the first weblog item in internet history to be favorably cited by Antiwar.com and Instapundit on the same day. As Glenn Reynolds put it, “Jim, you should take this as either a sign that you’re doing something right, or that you’re [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, we present Stand Down, (aka NoWarBlog), an alliance of left and right-wing webloggers opposed to the military conquest of Iraq. Our “Statement of Unity” has the virtue of brevity, probably because we don’t agree on all that much. We expect it to become one of the liveliest fora on the web and [...]

I’m coming to realize that the prospect of writing about my participation in last Saturday’s antiwar march in Washington bores me silly. Dunno why. Probably because I felt like I ought to write a “major” piece, and I can’t work up the energy. So let’s take it in bits and pieces. For more detail and [...]

Having donned the hair shirt itself regarding its mistakes in covering the sniper spree, Unqualified Offerings now turns to dressing the rest of you – you being bloggers, columnists and talking heads.
You pretty much made the same mistake I did.
No, UO isn’t saying that you overestimated the centrality of Montgomery County in the killer’s life [...]

Upon the enunciation of the Bush Doctrine, some worried about the expansive tone of the President’s rhetoric. Once this “axis of evil” was disposed of, wasn’t there a real danger that interventionists would invoke Bush’s rhetoric to involve the US in yet further conflicts in yet more corners of the globe?
That worry turns out to [...]

Useful advice from Jesse Walker on getting out of jury duty.
Unqualified Offerings innovated a similar method of avoiding job offers while receiving unemployment compensation. Every job interview eventually comes to the “What questions do you have for me?” phase. Simply ask your interviewer, in an inquiring tone:
“Do you have a weapons policy?”

The manager of “my” Outback Steakhouse in Aspen Hill believes she saw Muhammad eating there, alone, on October 21. The Post has a story this morning including other sightings. Some will be false, of course. A lot of witnesses claim to have spotted Muhammad by himself. And the end of the article, about sightings along [...]