Unqualified Offerings

Well! Clearly, Mrs. Potatohead packed my angry eyes, just in case. Let’s post some nice things, now, shall we?
I like to think of this as the ultimate Advantage: Unqualified Offerings! story.
Annoying but valuable indie comics publisher Fantagraphics is facing bankruptcy. If you buy enough from them they might not have to file. Eve Tushnet and [...]

The victory, I mean:

“THE WAR has not ended,” the commander, Army Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, said after a U.S. soldier was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while traveling in supply convoy north of Baghdad — the ninth U.S. service member killed in Iraq this week.
McKiernan, briefing reporters in [...]

Like much of the blogosphere, I have my site on a Hosting Matters server, so like much of the blogosphere this site was down all day because of a fire at the collocation site. Sorry to everyone, especially everyone coming in from Matthew Yglesias and Radley Balko to find out which presidents I want to [...]

An interview with the great Richard Thompson and three live songs (solo acoustic) on VH1’s website. Meanwhile, on Thompson’s own site, a live streaming concert (audio only) and various other free download and streaming goodies.

Hesiod and Jeanne d’Arc have lots of info on a Middle Eastern despot who tortures, murders, fosters a cult of personality and, oh by the way, hosts major US troop deployments in his country. His depredations include boiling political opponents alive. If we do decide to put Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan on the regime change [...]

Roman Days, a living history event, June 7-8 at Marietta Mansion in Glenn Dale, MD. Looks like fun. Expected attendance, somewhat light. As my friend Dave, with whom we’ll be attending, puts it:

For bigger turn outs [in the midatlantic] perhaps they need to emphasize that Romans too had civil wars.

Who said this?

“We don’t like the word, but this is occupation . . . To keep 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation is bad for Israel and the Palestinians.”

Ariel Sharon! I confess I am stunned. If this is one more “Likud strings the US along until it loses interest” maneuver, Arik’s really going for the Oscar [...]

Endlessly fascinated by the ins and outs of the Jessica Lynch rescue, the extent to which it was and was not stage-managed for propaganda purposes and what the press did and did not report when and correct when? Me neither. BUT, your one-stop shop for sage Lynch commentary last week was Bruce Rolston of Flit, [...]

After the spokesman for CATIC (the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center) suggested that “You can almost argue that a protest against [a war fought in the name of antiterrorism] is a terrorist act,” some good news: California’s attorney general, Bill Lockyer, who has oversight responsibility for CATIC, explicitly disavowed the spokesman’s argument, according to the Sacramento [...]

The other day, Tagore Smith wondered, in e-mail, “out of the post WWII presidents, how many do you think shouldn’t have been impeached?” (We had been talking about Bill Clinton and George W. Bush lying the United States into war.) Since then, I’ve been wondering. Keep in mind the question is not, Which Presidents do [...]