Unqualified Offerings

Some days Fafblog is merely brilliant. Other days it’s a work of absolute genius. Excerpt:
FB: So we can actually win the war! That’s great news!
LIEBERMAN: Yes!
REID: Sort of!
BIDEN: Maybe!
CLINTON: I can wrestle a buffalo!
Plenty more where that came from.

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It occurred to me the other day that if anyone has any doubt whatsoever that the plan is still to establish permanent (”enduring” or whatever) American military bases in Iraq, the President’s actual words should remove any doubt:
Bush took a similar line in January in an interview with Arabic television. “That’s going to be up [...]

I’m back if still officially on vacation – about which more anon. Lots of fun, though there’s a flaw in the idea of Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands as vacation paradise if not a fatal one: there’s a reason the phrase “Western Pennsylvania hospitality” is not commonly heard. Take Roy Blount Jr’s description of the Pittsburgh character [...]

I’m slogging through Chris Stephens’ Judgment Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic. Now I see that, three years in, Slobo’s wife is finally packing up to join him at The Hague (he says he is “lonely”), and at least one of his witnesses is pretty upset about the proceedings:
A defense witness in former Yugoslav President [...]

In June, Barry R. Posen of MIT argued in the New York Times that much better intelligence would be needed in Iraq if we were to have any hope of victory. Posen argued that the insurgents had demonstrated that they have access to better intel on us than we have on them, and that [...]

If you haven’t been reading Needlenose for the last two years, you’ve been missing a ton of insightful (and cynical) commentary on Iraqi factional struggle by contributor Swopa. The last few days of constitution-writing as spectator sport have played to his strengths. Bonus: link to live-blogging by Salam Pax, whose father seems to [...]

Give ‘em credit for consistency: the AEI crowd is clinging tightly to the Iraq project no matter how far south things go. Reuel Marc Gerecht has been touting his “sharia law will help democracy” line on the WSJ op-ed page and most recently on Meet the Press:
MR. GERECHT: Actually, I’m not terribly worried [...]

The Independent has a fascinating piece on Auroville, a commune set up in rural India in the 1960s and still lumbering along. The article is behind a wall, but here’s a chunk of it:
Between the traditional villages of south India, with their thatched roofs and wood- canopied verandas, if you venture off the beaten [...]

Courtney Knapp has a characteristically sharp post on the upside of knocked up 12 year olds:
Better health is a causal factor behind the biological capability to become pregnant. Quick refresher course for those who slept through biology:
Androgens released during adrenarche cause the secretion of hormones (estrogen) at the onset of puberty. Estrogen causes thelarche, the [...]