Unqualified Offerings

Offering Boy did badly on his first math test this year, and much, much better on his second. (In between we explained that “Henleys don’t get 60s on Math tests.”) This evening Mrs. O called me at the office to say that he had forgotten to tell me that he just got his third test [...]

Yglesias quotes Harry Reid pontificating on the matter of Iraq:
The time has come for the Bush Administration to stop driving blind and make sure its plans coincide with real-life in Iraq’s neighborhood. We need a regional strategy that induces Iraq’s neighbors to act responsibly; accepts other countries’ offers to train Iraqis; seals the border with [...]

90-9! It is a bittersweet victory indeed when the country’s senior legislative body has to reaffirm the settled laws of war, basic human decency and the Army’s own existing field manual and customs – that the question even arises is dispiriting. But the available alternative to a bittersweet victory here was not unalloyed triumph but [...]