Unqualified Offerings

See, they return, one, and by one . . .
Fafblog is back from a brief pledge break. Are people starting to take Fafblog for granted? Because it’s still comic genius, the hardest kind of genius to be a genius at.
Andrew Olmsted has been back for a bit now, but he was gone a long [...]

The coming conservative crackup over Iran?
Christopher Hitchens wants a climbdown.
Captain Ed and most of his comment-minions want war – maybe just a little one.
I don’t know if the ABC story about Iranian shipments of anti-personnel and anti-vehicle devices to Iraq is true or not.
Captain Ed makes a very good point, by the way, allowing for [...]

I’m pretty sure I didn’t pick up the morgue story here because a) let’s face it, there’s all kinds of things I don’t pick up, and b) it did seem pretty unverifiable. I don’t take General Casey’s estimate of 350 fatalities on faith either, but it’s in that range of 10-25% of the initial reported [...]

I’m not saying Ralph Peters is flat out lying in his much-linked column of today. I’m sure there are actual facts in it. But they are arranged so mendaciously and so covered in a cream of ressentiment (especially against The Media) that such truth as it may contain amounts to flavor bits in a dish [...]