Unqualified Offerings

Having just disagreed with Atrios, let me point to a matter of complete accord: The Piano blew.
Now, among many reasons I cherish my wife of 14 years: like many women, Mrs. O dragged me to see The Piano when it came out. Unlike many women, when the movie ended she immediately apologized.

Tonight the kids and I watched excellent episodes of Batman and Justice League Unlimited. The Batman episode introduced this series’ version of Scarface. Scarface was created in the late 1980s by writer Alan Grant and artist Norm Breyfogle, and has to count among the best latter-day Batman villain ideas. “Scarface” is the ventriloquist’s dummy of [...]

Atrios? Nope: Kevin Drum.
There are people that like mixed-use communities and will, in fact, pay a premium to live in them. Kentlands in Gaithersburg is the closest example to my house. I’ve driven through Kentlands and visited some of its shopping streets: it’s quite nice.
Here’s the thing, though, and the point is not original to [...]

It’s true, that last Saturday night, the entire Offering organization had the pleasure of hanging out with almost all of the Catallarchy brain trust. Also, longtime UO Loyal Reader and apparent official-now Catallarchy contributor Nicholas Weininger was there. And at that meeting, a plan was hatched. I have, it is fair to say, many fine [...]

Fuck you guys. Or, as Coyote Blog puts it:
I have come to the conclusion that arguing over who gets the media exemption is like arguing about whether a Native American in 1960’s Alabama should use the white or the colored-only bathroom: It is an obscene discussion and is missing the whole point, that the [...]

Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.
reports the Guardian. (Via Atrios.) Yes there will be bad acting and a [...]