Unqualified Offerings

Eve Tushnet says that Unqualified Offerings simply hasn’t found a loud house concert yet – they exist regardless. It also occurred to me that while, in my original piece, I noted that the listener/reader/viewer could grow bitter at the realization that there is more work of merit out there than he or she could possibly [...]

Brother Gene slacked off a bit and now says that he’s having trouble getting back into that blogging swing. Go to his site, post amusing comments, send him nice e-mails and perk him back up.

Interesting story in the London Times about the situation of Syria’s Kurds. No, Unqualified Offerings didn’t know either:

Mr Omar is one of about 25,000 Kurds in Syria classified as maktoumeen — “unregistered”. His house and clothes shop are held in other people’s names because he cannot own property. He cannot travel abroad, his marriage is [...]

Sad and at times infuriating story in the Tacoma News-Tribune about the aftermath of the Keenya Cook murder in Tacoma, Washington in February. Cook is suspected of being the first victim of John Muhammad and/or Lee Malvo, who later went on to bigger and worse things. The evidence connecting them to the murder is just [...]

Since its inception, this site has promised to cover “War, Peace, Freedom, Fish, More.”
It has sucked at the fish part.
Unqualified Offerings has just been terrible as a fishing blog. (Partly this is because Unqualified Offerings is not much of a fisherman.) So what to do? The manly response would be for UO to rededicate itself [...]

Lyrics of the Day

Are you a convicted felon?
No.
Do you plan to be?
No.
What is the gun for?
To get me to Canada…

Brian Gundersdorf, “Albany” (We’re About Nine)

Last night Mrs. Offering forced this website to discover something of which it was hitherto completely ignorant: the “house concert” scene. A house concert is just what it sounds like – a concert in someone’s house. This one was in the basement of a much nicer place than La Familia Offering lives in, someone’s McLean [...]

in most cases, but Michael Croft is, and he weighs in on the question of chili and beans on Ones and Zeros. Lengthy, interesting, “Texas Pride” kind of post by a liberal Texan. Excerpt:

My wife tells a story about her father’s dining experience in London which I think is relevant to this question. Lonely for [...]

Responding to John J. Miller’s notorious New York Times whine about libertarians voting, you know, Libertarian, rather than Republican, Randy E. Barnett has useful advice for the Republican Party at NRO (imagine!):

While I am not a libertarian who advises others to vote Libertarian, many of my libertarian friends and relatives feel otherwise. They view the [...]

Unqualified Offerings will not, not, not , not, NOT entitle this piece “Pimp Mommy,” even though Eve Tushnet’s e-mail began

I found you a couple moderate Muslim chicks…

Eve’s blogwatch links to the wide-ranging Veiled for Allah, by Al-Muhajabah, which has a foot in both tech and pundit-blogging; for an altogether different blogging experience steeped in, shall [...]