Unqualified Offerings

Mothers Against Peeing Standing Up. Via, I hesitate to mention this, Mrs. Offering.

As to the link in question, I feel compelled to say
1. I firmly believe in the moral worth and psychological necessity of tasteless humor;
2. I’m not the author.
Note: If you choose to wade into the comment threads, I can’t help you.
(Via Brain|Crab.)

Destroying the village in order to save it.
UPDATE: The revolution devours its own.
UPDATE: More on our pro-life torturer from Atrios. This part really stands out:
Tierney’s methods of ascertaining this location were rather unconventional. “I would ask God and just get a sense if something was valid or not, and then know if I needed to [...]

This could be important. Remember those photos of Giuliana Sgrena’s car that showed it as largely undamaged? They’re all from the front, driver’s side. That’s interesting, because Antiwar.com blog points to an interview with Sgrena in which she says the car as shot at from behind.
Some comments. This does not prove that US troops tried [...]

Gary Farber finds a Baltimore Sun story (try “bugmenot90@mailinator.com/bugmenot”) in which
Diana Schaub, a Loyola College professor and adviser to President Bush, is convinced that cloning and embryonic stem cell research are evil. She says this belief was formed, in part, by watching Star Trek.
This is important, for two reasons. First, this is the same “Gary [...]

I confess it. Show me a news account of a “joint Iraqi-US operation” and I’ll assume that the US forces did all the heavy lifting, with the Iraqis functioning as either window dressing for very junior partners, most likely either as spotters or perimeter guards. I actually believed that cockamamie story about the Saudi pilot [...]

The best caption ever, from the splash page of the Batman story in Detective Comics #37:
THE BATMAN, HAVING LOST HIS WAY ON A LONELY BY-ROAD, STOPS BEFORE A LONE HOUSE TO ASK DIRECTIONS.
Also, man does the early Batman use poison gas a lot. Nonlethal mostly (one vial is described as “deadly” but it doesn’t seem [...]

“The theme of the television series, 24, is that our country’s security is in the hands of a bunch of assholes.”
I used to be pretty good at those “The theme of . . . is . . . “essays in ninth grade. Useful skill.
Also, I know that “chatter” is a term that’s been used by [...]

If I were in charge of Hell, my top priority would be acquiring the fury of a woman scorned, because that’s my competition.

Gratn Morrison of The Filth, Invisibles, We3 and New X-Men fame has launched a new project for DC called Seven Soldiers of Victory. The high concept is that there will be two “group” issues bookending seven four-issue miniseries, one for each hero. Johanna Draper Carlson somewhat nervously avers that the inaugural issue of The Manhattan [...]