Unqualified Offerings

So, during the Al Aqsa Intifada in 2002-2003, there were bombings from every few days to a couple of times a month. I don’t recall the “good news” crowd urging us not to overemphasize the violence then, even though surely there were new-painted schools somewhere in Israel and people went to work every day. My [...]

George Mason University in the Final Four. Helps me regard the smoking ruin that used to be my first-ever pool brackets with a measure of serenity.
Fucking Duke. They make mock of my every endeavor. They outpace Maryland’s basketball team pretty much every year and then tank on me when I pick them to go all [...]

Three American Senators get high-handed with an audience of Chinese students. Stupendously high-handed. Stupefyingly:
Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) told the students that, post-9/11, Americans are committed to taking on whatever battles seem imperative – China’s cheap currency, along with al-Qaeda.
The students don’t cotton to it. Matthew Barganier spikes the ball home:
That Chuck Schumer, the most insufferable [...]

The drip of Iraqi documents continues. Some of it makes for interesting historical trivia, assuming the documents are authentic and accurately translated, but none of it so far retrospectively shows Iraq to be a threat to the US necessitating war.
Camels of Mass Destruction. This may have been a marketing ploy by Happy Tree Friends. I [...]