Unqualified Offerings

By the end, I was rooting for the warhead.
I love my country, but I prefer to think it isn’t the one depicted in 24. And I hate Stupid. Here I am speaking not of the show’s Counter Terrorism Unit, nor its US government generally, but about its creators, the writers who pretend that the Chinese [...]

No cat would do this. I could totally see Unqualified Dog in this role. Okay, Unqualified Dog would probably bring the poor kid toys in the vain hope that he would throw them for her, but even that might attract some attention.
Hat tip: Mrs. Offering.

Note to Self: Write about the issue of, when people turn the drawing room of your whorehouse into an infirmary, what compensation are you do, and what are your recourses to get it.
I cannot tell you, BTW, how richly pleasing it was to discover that Swearingen’s ultimate, secret aim of all his conspiring is – [...]

AW.com blog also offers the text of the famous Downing Street memo.

Fascinating and troubling report of an attempt by marines to raid an area north of the Euphrates in the largest US offensive operation in weeks. Tex at Antiwar.com blog offers a skeptical take on the intelligence behind the planning. Two things jump out at me:
But the routine safety practice apparently alerted area residents to [...]