Unqualified Offerings

David Adesnik writes the ur-TNR article:
At this point, the author pulls out a deck of cards and picks one at random. If the card is a ten or lower, the author concludes that the Democrats are right, but not for the reason given by some senator from Massachusetts.
If the author draws a face card, he [...]

Google won praise for standing up to the United States government; it earns scorn for knuckling under to China’s. The best you can say for them is that they’re not 100% effective at the knuckling:
A search in English on “Tiananmen Square” turned up some sites but not others. Tsquare.tv, a site devoted to the protest [...]

The Castle Coalition has redesigned its website. To my taste the News sidebar should be a lot more prominent. It appears to have no RSS feed either. It does have a prominent “Top Story” graphic heading the content column, though, which will be good if it gets updated regularly. Some good news, too:
Arlington, Va.—BB&T, the [...]

Maybe Battlestar Galactica really is terminal: It’s been discovered by the New Yorker. It’s basically “No, really, it’s okay for you to like this show,” though less simpering than some of the breed. It’s ironic that it appears the week after the single worst episode in the program’s history so far. Gary Farber thinks the [...]

Crop circles are Chuck Norris’ way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the fuck down.
Chuck Norris Facts
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Unless the bird is in Jack Bauer’s hand. Then that fucking bird is dead.
Jack Bauer Facts
There’s some overlap, and I think most [...]

Stephen F. Hayes lists the titles of 40 official Iraqi documents that may be released Real Soon Now. What you need to know:
I had been seeking the same documents. For more than five months I pestered Department of Defense public affairs staff to see them. I provided titles to the Pentagon staff and, eventually, filed [...]

I didn’t notice anything in the NYT’s report on the leaked draft report of the Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction that counts as news, but it serves as a quick summary of stuff you’ve heard here and there: too few people and the wrong people at that; too many agencies with their spoons in [...]

Suggested by Gary Farber.
Also, feel free to make the case for Opera if you prefer it.

Lily-livered conservative Andrew McCarthy speaks up for bottomless Presidential power to spy on you, and includes a ritual invocation:
It was critical in the Civil War, when, by definition, it was done domestically — and without the slightest suggestion that federal courts should be involved.
I bring this up because it’s worth pointing out that this kind [...]

Aqoul is a new group blog devoted to
a space for reasoned discussion, debate and blithering on about the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and to a lesser extent other regions associated with Islam. Let us call it “MENA writ large”
And the penis. (”People who don’t even know our names are now aware that we keep [...]