Unqualified Offerings

Joyner finds an educational description of the common situation in the Christian Science Monitor:
You’re driving along and you see a couple of soldiers standing by the side of the road – but that’s a pretty ubiquitous sight in Baghdad, so you don’t think anything of it. Next thing you know, soldiers are screaming at you, [...]

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Let me briefly endorse Johanna Draper Carlson’s favorable review of the current trade paperback collection of Dan Slott’s She-Hulk series from Marvel Comics. Yes, She-Hulk. It’s entirely enjoyable, as Johanna ably explains.

Apparently recently-freed hostage and Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena thinks it possible that the American troops who fired on her vehicle, killing an Italian intelligence officer who shielded his charge with his body, that “it was possible she was targeted because the United States objected to methods used to secure her release.”
Well it’s not, really, for [...]