Unqualified Offerings

Iraqi government adopts the old odd-even system of gas rationing? No, it’s more grandiose than that. It’s an odd-even system for driving at all. As some Iraqi guy with a blog writes
Habibi, this is a bad decision. Schools are going to start soon so are you going to, magically from under your turban, produce a [...]

Last night’s Rome was better, I thought, than the first one because of the close focus on Legionary Titus Pullo and, especially, Centurion Lucius Varena and his family. The awkward domestic fallout of long deployment that drove the bulk of this episode is fresher ground than the macrostory (ooh! the Republic’s corrupt! ooh! It’s going [...]

Via Jesse Walker, though not Jesse Walker’s blog, the entry on Anarchism (by Bill Kauffman) in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of American Conservatism.

That would be me. From Newsweek’s “Lost City” report:
Not true—but there were poisonous cottonmouth snakes and water moccasins.
Wow, both?
Sorry, I know they’re on deadline.

Not to cheer you up, but be prepared for . . .
* a backlash from Mississippi residents and pols about the relative attention paid to New Orleans in the short term, and infighting between the two states’ political establishments over reconstruction funding and resource allocation in the medium term, complete with partisan (Republican [...]

I see the bag. Now where’s that cat? Oh! Out:
In an interview earlier this month, Jumper was even more explicit when asked about the air force’s future in Iraq.
“We will continue with a rotational presence of some type in that area more or less indefinitely,” he said then. “We have interests in that part of [...]

Giblets says, It’s on!
Some namby-pamby skeptic-types say “oh you cannot occupy the jet stream, you will only antagonize the native cloud-people and plunge several thousand feet to your death below.” Well all Giblets has to say to that is shut up, storm-symp!
Need I say, There’s more?

Alternatives to the big agencies I’ve seen recommended by fellow libertarians:
Modest Needs – via Nick Weininger.
Food not Bombs – via Brad Spangler.
And don’t forget the puppies. (This in or around USA.)

. . . of standing around while the work gets done:
For three days, Corps officials had lamented the difficulty of gaining access to the canal, but yesterday a local contractor, Boh Bros. Construction Co., apparently drove to the mouth of the canal and started placing a set of steel sheet pilings to isolate the [...]