Unqualified Offerings

Fanboy Rampage among others has linked the call for submissions for Uncle Sam Comics. Not a trick! Not an imaginary tale! as we used to say.
The obvious thing to note is that these things are really going to blow. The American culture that draws foreigners is not the stuff with the stink of propaganda about [...]

Forget finding an honest man. I want him to track down one person who either accepts or rejects the conclusions of both the ad-hoc grievance committee’s report on the Middle East Studies Program at Columbia and the report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (pdf). [...]

This kind of talk makes me nervous, because these days someone’s likely to go and seriously push for it as policy. I think it’s a pretty good whack at what would “work” against obesity. Jane goes very light on the plan’s likely horror-show side effects, a sharp rise in eating disorders and compounded general female [...]

Terri Schiavo. We hardly knew ye barely begins to cover it.

Hesiod, obeying the strictures against off-topic comments to the letter, e-mails the link to an International Herald Tribune story about the torture of prisoners in Iraq. I suppose the good news is that it’s not by us:
The Iraqi government’s unprecedented admission that its police officers tortured and killed three Shiite Muslim militiamen while they were [...]

Oh no! The Republican Party came in Glenn Reynolds’ mouth!
Republicans like to point out that you have to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything. The leadership, at least, of the Republican Party has abandoned the principles of small government and federalism that it used to stand for. Trampling traditional limits on governmental [...]

In his “Iraq: An Exit Strategy” column yesterday, Justin Raimondo writes, among other things,
Success depends on recognition of the central problem: that the Iraqis are in danger of becoming dangerously dependent on the American military presence. Just as recipients of U.S. government largess at home – welfare recipients both corporate and individual – become part [...]

Thomas Nephew is among the most successful. He has the stomach to follow details of our nation’s ongoing commitment to ‘using “coercive techniques” that could “shock the conscience” ‘ and an energy in reporting on them that I just don’t many days. It’s worth making Newsrack a regular stop.

Functional Iraqi democracy is still downloading. Still can’t confirm a mismatch in the codecs, but so far the software will not play on their system.

You fuckers should try going to MIT if you wanna find out what real unhappiness is! Why in my day, we were unhappy 20 miles through the snow uphill – both ways! We didn’t even have dorms, just tarpaper shacks made out of whatever unhappiness sheets we scrounged from the banks of the Charles. We [...]