Unqualified Offerings

Eve hands me one of the book memes.
1. Total Number of Books I’ve Owned. The mind boggles. I used to work in the book business. I got free books of all kinds and a discount on almost everything I couldn’t get free. I’m married to a bookworm and the community property laws incline me to [...]

Saw the movie because my company had a free screening for employees today at the multiplex across the street from our headquarters. We each got a free small popcorn and soda, and the movie was worth what I paid.
Maybe you had to be there. I mean, be twelve rather than seventeen for your first encounter [...]

Farber has the transcript of Patrick Buchanan calling Newsweek’s publication of the Koran abuse report “seditious.” Context, provided by Gary’s generous excerpt, does not soften the accusation.
I condemn Buchanan’s accusation unreservedly. It’s worth noting, though, a fundamental coherence to his thought. Buchanan was a vocal opponent of the Iraq War, and before the September 11, [...]

Beating captives to death does not exhaust the list of “abuses” one can commit against captives. We know of two people, so far, who had their legs crippled and were hung from the ceiling until they died. We have not been discussing the people who had their legs crippled but weren’t hung from the ceiling, [...]