Unqualified Offerings

I Got Rhythm – Via Costello-L, here’a cool site where you can hear just about any kind of percussion instrument you care to name. Actually, the site, Virtual Orchestra, will play almost any symphonic instrument for you.
Just don’t let the Wolf catch Peter!

Ouch – Suffering through the Redskins game tonight. Tomorrow, a special “How Wrong You Are About Rwanda, Jim” mailbag.

as they say. This strikes me as a natural progression from taking in guest bloggers. (Seriously, as another dog person, I’m nothing but delighted.)
I met ex-Obernews guest blogger Adrienne Aldredge. It went like this:
Me: Adrienne Aldredge! Jim Henley.
Adrienne: Oh hi!
(Pause.)
Adrienne: How old are you?
Kids these days.
I should state right out that she had an excuse. [...]

That About Sums It Up – Chad Orzel speaks dog, and has translated a new History of the Past Couple of Years.

Bastards! BASTARDS! – So after all the fitness blogging last year and all the running this year, I get my blood tests back, and I’ve dropped my LDL cholesterol from 152 to 96 in a year and a half – and Science goes and drops the recommended ceiling from 99 to 70. Those rotten sons [...]

today, a good two days after it became available. Ah, age. It makes us slow and lazy. I put a fair amount of effort into trying to like his previous rock album, When I Was Cruel, but ultimately it didn’t take. Liking this one – I’m in mid-first listen – is taking no effort at [...]

More from the Party of Limited Government – Republican candidate for the Senate in MarylandIllinois Alan Keyes does not like polls, as you might imagine given his numbers. And he knows just what to do about them:
“They (polls) are manipulative and degrading and damaging to our political system, and they should not be allowed when [...]

Let’s Think About Something Else Instead – Drezner has an item on The Neocon Split Over George W. Bush.
A few weeks ago I was talking with someone far more plugged into Washington than myself. We were chatting about the neoconservatives and my breakfast partner raised an important distinction — that one had to distinguish between [...]

On the Radar – The Kerry speech on Iraq. At a first skim, it’s best at harmonizing Kerry’s vote for the Use of Farce resolution in Fall 2002 with his evolving criticisms of what the Bush Administration did afterward. I still hold Kerry’s vote against him. You had to be wilfully naive by October 2002 [...]

Nothing Gets Past Dave Intermittent. Or Eve Tushnet. Thanks, guys. I am indeed back and up to my old tricks. (Such as, announcing that I will soon blog about A and then blogging about B instead.)
It’s hard, though. Frex, I was going to suggest that the Democrats may have proven themselves foolish in throwing over [...]