Unqualified Offerings

My brief, carping item about liberal bloggers, especially Atrios, brought some mail, which is so far running about 2-1 against me. That is, I heard from three people, one of whom was Atrios, who was very polite, one from a leftist reader who wrote “I read one of his commenters joking about cutting out Lott’s [...]

Reading this Airstrip One item a symmetry finally hits me: American WWII revisionists generally accuse Roosevelt of being overly attached to Churchill. At the same time, British WWII revisionists suspect Churchill of being overly attached to Roosevelt. This isn’t one of those cases where “They can’t both be right,” but it’s still interesting.

Electrolite finds – quite the headline.
He’s also got a great Tolkien roundup with links to further reading. And Avedon Carol now has a Sideshow Annex devoted to Issues Mesoterran.

Primarily for fellow MT users . . .
I’ve been meaning to brag about my Movable Type fu. Last month I decided to really learn MT, beyond just the minimum needed to get a blog up and post to it. In the course of doing so I completely redesigned my Nobilis site (dedicated to the [...]

There are a handful:
Bill Frist’s pencils. Much has been written about this one, god knows why. Remember when Mencken said “A belly laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms?” It was for occasions like this.
Patty Murray, traitor. Murray is a dumbass and has the liberal Democrat’s inveterate faith in economic intervention anywhere, at home or abroad. [...]

Your Talking Dog all but declares that since more violence and terror will benefit both the Likud campaign and the thugs who still control Palestinian strategy and tactics, that there will be more violence and terror in the run-up to the Israeli elections. Why do I say everybody’s a cynic? Because I think he’s right.
TD [...]

Strangely, classicist Victor Davis Hanson seems to forget the whole hubris thing when his attention turns to the present day:

Something strange is happening, as if all the old conventional wisdom proves daily insolvent. Each hour Saudi Arabia appears a more untenable ally, panicky as the light of truth shines into its deepest recesses. The Arab [...]

Tapped, part of an intra-left blogger brawl about race and the Democratic Party agenda that involves Atrios and Hesiod among others, asks

But then, inevitably, we come to the question of what’s acceptable non-racist policy from a conservative or a Republican. (If you think it’s impossible to be a conservative or a Republican without being racist, [...]

Reactions to the good stuff I got for Christmas:
Fellowship of the R – okay, enough Tolkien talk for awhile. Mrs. Offering actually bought the collector gift edition or whatever it’s called, the one with the bigass bookends, because it was the only version of the extended-edition DVD in stock. But I have nothing to add [...]

Speaking of Bruce Baugh, his site has an example of what happens when a real writer gets ahold of a real topic – why it’s so much harder to write about happiness than unhappiness.