Unqualified Offerings

Where the hell is my copy of Matt Fitzgerald’s new book, The Cutting-Edge Runner? I had it yesterday afternoon, but now I can’t find it.

So like, Episode IV came out before Episode III, but Episode III takes place before Episode IV. People get that okay, right? Even reporters and pundits for establishment media enterprises (I think I’ll call them the “EME!”) can understand that, can’t they? Hesiod finds that reaction to the latest British Iraq memo leaks suggests that [...]

Nixon tasked Mark Felt with finding out who the hell this Deep Throat guy was, according to the Nation.

I think the op-ed of the day is Kissinger’s latest apologia on behalf of the Chinese. Let’s get the standard disclaimers out of the way, as Kissinger himself does: The Chinese have made Kissinger a boatload of money, and continue to. He has a vested interest in minimizing their appalling human rights record and in [...]

Who will our next White Girl in Trouble be?
UPDATE: SomeCallMeTim, in comments, reminds me that there is a way to find out.

Read two books and saw a movie.
Dark Voyage, by Alan Furst. Worth finishing but not, in retrospect, starting. Never much tension, and suffers from the combination of features plaguing Furst’s lesser books: One, as an author he can be too nice to his protagonists. It’s easy to understand why – the protagonists of his recent [...]