Unqualified Offerings

More from the LA Times. Excerpt:

By failing to secure suspect sites, Kay and others warned, the Pentagon could not guarantee that critical blueprints, weapons parts, precursor chemicals and other valuable material have not been spirited out of the country for sale to other nations or to terrorist groups.
“They’ve increased the proliferation threat,” Kay said. “And [...]

The Brits are thinking of trying MP George Galloway for treason for a speech he made during the recent unpleasantness in Iraq urging troops to refuse to carry out their orders, according to the Observer:

The Observer can reveal that the Director of Public Prosecutions is considering pursuing the Glasgow politician for comments during the Iraq [...]

So, um, in a narrow, technical sense, also a wider, general sense, Free Comic Book Day was not yesterday. Like I said it was. Erroneously. Somehow I convinced myself that it was May. And here it’s only just warming up. Reader Mary Kay Kare caught the error too. My apologies to any readers who actually [...]

180 pounds, 36″ waist. That’s the first uptick on weight since I started the diet, rising from 179 pounds last week. I blame Easter, OR it’s not a problem OR it’s the first sign of trouble. The pessimistic view is that my week is ending up with multiple “free days” in it. There’s Wednesday night’s [...]

Officially it’s a Jesse Walker correction, but it’s a problem with his USA Today op-ed, caught by Steven Postrel, that I should have noted myself when linking the article. Jesse runs Steven Postrel’s letter and his response.

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, when a dying industry tries to win back a handful of its lost market share in tandem with the release of a major movie. (This year, it’s X-Men 2.) The variety of free comics available is astounding, from Donald Duck through X-Men to indie and small press titles, even [...]

I’ve gotten a couple of inquiries recently, so I should probably announce that yes, I do have an RSS feed, here.

Tacitus has an interesting item on the hard-to-find Iraqi Bad Things, in which he asks

(Kos suggests impeachment if WMD are not found in six months; does that mean Clinton should have suffered an additional impeachment once it was clear that the Serbs weren’t perpetrating genocide upon the Kosovars?)

Well of course he should have. I’m glad [...]

Arthur Silber’s weblog seems to have changed addresses. At the new domain, he has the usual cornucopia of quality, including lots and lots of stuff on Senator Rick Santorum (R-Spanish Inquisition).

Some good stuff:
Jesse Walker on Iran, Iraq and nonviolent resistance in the USA Today.
Jonathan “Head Heeb” Edelstein is back on the Israeli politics beat, which means I don’t have to get all my Israeli news from the Talking Dog. Jonathan has two good, in-depth items of interest. This one covers the vexed birth of the [...]