Unqualified Offerings

If you seriously maintain that “neoconservative” is a code word for “Jewish,” you are an ass. The only question is whether you’re an ignorant ass, one who somehow missed a thirty-year-plus intellectual tradition and yet feels unaccountably qualified to comment on political matters, or a dishonest ass.
William Kristol can’t plead ignorance. Some of the rest [...]

if not their bosses. Operation Homefront takes donations to help military families in San Diego and El Paso. I’d bring the families’ loved ones home tomorrow, but it’s not up to me and it’s not up to them either If this had been an actual emergency, you’d want these people between you and trouble. [...]

Quote of the Other Day

The correct terminology here is obviously not “code name”, for Christ’s sake, but “brand”.

Colby Cosh on “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”

Quote of the Day

gevalt, if either our side or theirs is faking a gay anti-war anti-Saddam weblog, either they are much smarter than I thought or the CIA is no longer screening for current drug use

Eve Tushnet

I’ve argued, along with Robert Wright and others, that the real problems come after the current war. Broadly speaking, they are the likely dangers of the occupation and the temptation to use Iraq as a base for what John Smith calls the Rolling World War. I’d like things to work out for us and the [...]

To be perfectly clear, it isn’t important what I choose to do with this website in the changed circumstance of a formal shooting war between Iraq and the US. Atrios has had a lot of fun with the grandiloquent pronouncements of some bloggers – well, you ain’t catching me, Mr. 15,000 Visits a Day! The [...]