Unqualified Offerings

Study finds government overstated danger of obesity
By a factor of fourteen. That’s a lot of wrong. (This assumes they haven’t goofed it yet again.)
Moral: Just because the government tells you something doesn’t mean it’s true. Not that they care:
CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding said because of the uncertainty in calculating the health effects of being [...]

Dear American Catholics: I love you guys. You know that. You’ve written many of my favorite books and songs. Some of us have marched together against unnecessary wars, traded books, screwed, lived together. On some of you I have crushed, with others debated, talked poetry, philosophized, eaten, drunk and shot the shit. In person, by [...]

For the record, I never dismissed out of hand the possibility that Saddam Hussein was behind the Oklahoma City bombing. Why? Because Timothy McVeigh went so out of his way in his last statements to contrast our attitude towards his killing children in the United States versus our killing children in Iraq. For that [...]

Here’s the most heartening excerpt from today’s Post article on the chain of e-mails and other directives that “led to” torture (and “torture,” as the apologists say) in Iraqi prisons:
Another interrogator, with the 501st Military Intelligence Battalion, wrote a response to the headquarters e-mail with cautions that “we need to take a deep breath and [...]