Unqualified Offerings

Apparently the Pakistanis were none too happy with a Washington Times cartoon either, per the Times of India.

Get more of the libertarian 24-blogging you crave from Drizzten. Anarcho-capitalist 24-blogging actually, though I think his Pavlovian reponses have been insufficiently conditioned. If an an-cap is going to cover CTU’s operational incompetence (at “securing the perimeter” among other things) and profligacy, I expect it to presage a peroration on how “private protection agencies” couldn’t [...]

Following up last night’s musing on the riots in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The question was, why there and not elsewhere? Zack points interested parties to a cultural explanation from Chapati Mystery blogger sepoy – South Asian Muslims value the Quran as an object in a way that Middle Eastern and African Muslims don’t. This clicked [...]

In the salacious parody whose title I decline to even splash across your RSS feed, I was struck by a quotable passage, and one too many howler monkeys in the OTB comments sections has pushed me over the edge:

She showed her teeth. ‘It sounds to me like you don’t support our troops.’
‘I think that [...]

I quite like my friend Michael Schaffner’s two recent poems in the Agni Review:

Two Views of Performance Budgeting
Mandarin Peach
You can still buy Michael’s first novel, War Boys, and indeed you should.