Unqualified Offerings

Warren Zevon’s last album is almost done, per Rolling Stone.

I thought I would do the “right winger gives advice to liberals” thing, because they love it so much. There’s a bit of a disagreement between Atrios and Calpundit over the issue of mainstream versus fringe liberals. Calpundit, aiming for a New Republic sort of vibe, complains about “Congressmen who travel to Baghdad to criticize [...]

When a site called “Cointelpro Toll” showed up in my referrer logs, I expected something critical and was not disappointed. You can’t beat “More Boneheaded Analysis from Jim Henley” as a subject hedder. He’s responding to my items about the nascent meme of declaring the ordinary Iraqis we came to liberate for their deaths at [...]

God knows I disagree with much of what liberal alpha-blogger Atrios has to say. But there’s not one word of this item that doesn’t get a wholehearted “me too.”

Tory dove Matthew Parris argues that the Iraq War scenario may yet prove rosy – he provides some reasons why that might be so – and that, in that case, ” Those who, like me, remain unconvinced of the case for war should prepare for a spell of unfashionability.” Upshot:

How would I reply? I should [...]

I listened to a few minutes of the G. Gordon Liddy show this afternoon in the car. Yes, I know, I deserve what I get in that case. A caller talking about “exit strategies” wanted to remind Liddy that, while WWII ended in 1945, West Germany didn’t become (nominally) sovereign again until after the Berlin [...]

New Frontiers in Spam

Your name was given to me as someone who might be interested in innovative medical solutions. First, you should know that “penis enlargement” is a myth propagated by unethical operators who prey on the insecure and gullible. And even if it did work, it’s not as if you could display it before [...]

Gary Farber sees off Richard Perle. Of course, Perle isn’t exactly gone. He’s resigned from the chairmanship of the Defense Policy Board, but Rumsfeld has asked him to remain a member.

From the Pentagon briefing today:

Q: Mr. Secretary, as you know, there has been some criticism, some by retired senior officers, some by officers on background in this building, who claim that the war plan that is in effect is flawed and our number of troops on the ground is too light, supply lines are too [...]

Bruce Rolston of Flit is taking the weekend off. No War Without Bruce Rolston Analysis! is my watchword.