Unqualified Offerings

is certainly worthy of extended treatment, though extended treatment is something I want to work up to. It’s a hell of a work, if not one I’m yet ready to rank with Ghost World and Ice Haven. Still, a handful of things that have occurred to me so far:
o Are we sure Andy’s [...]

If I Were Still a Blogger I’d . . .
wish my blogson a Happy Blogiversary;
go to the Blogarama at Kalorama on Thursday, July 29;
finally get around to updating the sidebar, adding a bunch of fine folks to the New Crew section, shipping the old New Crew links off to their permanent homes and updating [...]

Pro-America, Pro-Martha, Anti-War? – Matthew Barganier identifies my demographic.

Mailbag – RGB Bill Dowling writes
Is it just me or have their been no unqualified offerings since July 11th?
No Bill, it’s not just you. I’ve been keeping quiet about the news because I don’t want to queer my Vegas act. Also, after two years of assuming that blogger burnout was something that happened to other [...]

Out in Right Field – Tacitus and allies have launched RedState.Org, kind of the Republican version of the Daily Kos, I think. It has some solid contributors, albeit predominantly national greatness symps. It is sure to nurture the next generation of conservative activists, though if they increase their body text size they’ll be able to [...]

Fitness Blog Bonus Item – It had to happen: finally, there’s an official Heavyhands site on the web. Actually it looks like there are three:
Heavyhandsfitness.com
Panaerobics.com
and yes, the Heavyhands blog. They appear to be official Leonard-Schwartz-connected sites. I can’t begin to say how cool this is. Hey, Doctor Schwartz! (or whoever checks your referrer logs) – [...]

Support the Troops’ Assault on . . . Parnassus – So I’m researching a paper on the NEA, which is how I learned of its latest high-profile project, Operation Homecoming. In Chair Dana Gioia’s words:
In coordination with all four branches of the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense, the Arts Endowment is sponsoring writing [...]

right now. Maybe it’s the heat. I’ve read some nice stuff recently, though, and you can too:
Will Wilkinson has a thoroughly entertaining review in Reason of two books about Gouverneur Morris, the Founding Father your mother warned you about. If you’re like me, you read a lot more book reviews than you read books, so [...]

appears this morning on the American Spectator’s website. As always when I turn heavy blogging into an article, I end up producing more original verbiage than I expect. The first sentence was designed to please Nielsen Hayden’s everywhere.

Spider-Blogging: On the Right Hand – Conservative and libertarian reaction to the movie pours in: Andrew Olmsted, Alex Knapp and Daniel Drezner, plus Chris Matthew Sciabarra. Chris’ article reminds me of a puzzle:
1) Steve Ditko is a big Objectivist type.
2) You can’t get much farther from the Objectivist ethos than “With great power there must [...]