Unqualified Offerings

Some people play roleplaying games and give them up because their lives change. Other people give them up because they can’t find anyone to play with any more. Findplay is an excellent service from game designer Clinton R. Nixon that could help with the latter problem. You register by location and interest – e.g. listing [...]

In comments downblog, Dan Koffler suggests I respond to Dick Cheney’s recent speeches. But really, does anybody give a shit what Dick Cheney has to say any more? I mean, aside from the guys at PajamasOpen Source Media? There’s something admirable about the hawks determined to go down with the ship they christened in the [...]

The Washington Realist, by Nikolas K. Gvosdev of the National Interest, who would, among other things, like to clear up some misconceptions about Realism as doctrine – make that doctrines:
There is a great deal of diversity among those who call themselves realists, as I noted in a piece for the Winter/Spring 2005 issue of [...]

That’s all I got to say for the moment. Blogging resumes, finally, tonight. Because bloggers don’t cut and run! Thanks to everyone who expressed concern via e-mail or comment. Really, thanks to anyone who noticed there wasn’t any new material on the website.

Belle’s comment to the entry about the letter from the obesity lady was so funny that I immediately made my secret blog friend at work load up UO and read it. For anyone who skips this site’s very manageable and enjoyable comment threads, here it is represented for your reading pleasure:
I’d like personal trainer, a [...]

Three nights in a row I’ve slept straight through without getting up to pee. The reason I burden you with this detail is that this is impossible in a 45-year-old man. The inexcapable conclusion: I am no longer a 45-year-old man. I have achieved reverse aging. I’m not sure how, but there’s got to be [...]

A NATIONWIDE hunt for the accomplices of suicide bombers who blew up three hotels in Amman, killing 57 people, has led to the arrest of at least 10 members of the Jordanian armed forces, triggering worries that Al-Qaeda has infiltrated the Arab army most closely allied to the West.
From the Times of London (via Antiwar.com).
On [...]

I admit it, when I saw this headline my first thought was, “Man, the New Republic really does want to go to war with everybody.”

First sentence of the NYT report on Condoleezza Rice’s travels:
MOSUL, Iraq The U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, made a surprise stop Friday in this violent, Sunni-dominated city in northern Iraq, declaring that it had recently become a success story for the strategy of using Iraqi forces to quell the insurgency.
Ninth sentence, same article:
A month [...]

Radley Balko gets an e-mail. Excerpt:
If the government really wants to help its people, it should provide lean meats, fruits and vegetables free of charge to its citizens. Free exercise equipment and memberships at exercise clubs would be beneficial as well.
Where is this woman’s spirit of community? If I can’t have a god damned personal [...]