Unqualified Offerings

for Radley Balko.
I am of course against gun control. But it’s never been much of a hot-button issue for me. Until now. I want a gun. Tonight. I should be able to go to Wal-Mart and by a goddamned handgun to defend myself. I doubt the two buffoons who threatened us tonight were serious. But [...]

Interesting. Set your (British) TV to Channel 4:
LONDON – A British TV channel is preparing “Guantanamo Guidebook,” a show that will test the effectiveness of interrogation techniques like sleep deprivation which freed inmates say were used by the U.S. military at its camp in Cuba.
Channel Four, which brought the world reality TV hit “Big Brother,” [...]

I’ve half settled on Bricks as my theme. I’d sort of like to do my own banner graphic, though that means settling on an image to replace the skewed building view. The skewed building is cool but it doesn’t say “Unqualified Offerings” somehow. Well, what would except maybe a votive bowl filled with candy, and [...]

I want to see what links look like. Here’s one.

I confess it. I’m sitting there tonight watching Battlestar Galactica, and it did occur to me that there were a couple of dozen folks around the world thinking, Man, Henley must be flipping right now.
More after I stop flipping.

So. Anyone interested in who actually killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri? Didn’t think so. Discussion seems to moved directly to the politics of the Syrian occupation with barely a pause to consider what may have actually happened. The Lebanese, with the help of the Swiss, are planning an investigation, bless their hearts, but [...]

The idea is to test blockquote functionality. So
That was fun, but there’s a less snarky point to make about Warner’s article. Quindlen may actually be “wrong.” Warner et al’s careerist approach to mothering may be “necessary,” to the extent that Warner is showing us how 21st Century American meritocracy reproduces. Warner and her cohort represent [...]

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for combatting the “broken window fallacy.”

That was fun, but there’s a less snarky point to make about Warner’s article. Quindlen may actually be “wrong.” Warner et al’s careerist approach to mothering may be “necessary,” to the extent that Warner is showing us how 21st Century American meritocracy reproduces. Warner and her cohort represent the elite of Robert Reich’s class of [...]