Unqualified Offerings

We invaded the North Pole to make more ice.

Think again with me about the reports of secret Iranian approaches to the United States “in the Spring of 2003.” Imagine that the US responded positively to the Iranian overtures and concluded the comprehensive deal the Iranians offered, a deal that would have made the Libyan abandonment of what passed for its nuke program look [...]

Belle Waring, ladies and gentlemen:
Still, there seems to be some sense floating around the pundit class that those on the left who were wrong about invading Iraq were wrong in an interesting, morally meaningful way; wrong in the manner of a wrong Winston Churchill, or something. But one who turned out to be totally wrong, [...]

Andy McCarthy wants us to secure our southern border against Iranian nukes – the ones they don’t have. My god but he must go through a lot of pants. Yglesias wonders why he would broach such an obviously insane fear:
Is the idea here that the media should just be flooded with as much Iran-related misinformation [...]

Levers are very useful for moving objects that would ordinarily be too heavy. A lever is just a straight, firm bar – it requires a fulcrum to balance across. You manipulate the long end and the short end, on the other side of the fulcrum, impels the object.
You still need to do the same quantity [...]

As Tom Scudder has pointed out, 984 is a masterpiece. “Calls Self John Smith” writes
Comment by genuine parallel-Earth equivalent of comic-book protagonist desperately searching for this world’s equivalents of team-mates.
(Quite certain they exist due to mistaken assumption derived from advertising portrayals of such, too afraid of being exposed to possible supervillain threat to ask anyone [...]

A coalition of net pundits are promulgating a Statement of Principles asserting a right to engage in online discourse without suffering reprisals in meatspace. I’m mostly down with it and for all I know might be completely supportive, depending on what a couple of things mean. The statement:
A) Private persons are entitled [...]

Reader Jeb Winders tips me to a forthcoming pilot for a Battlestar Galactica prequel, called Caprica:
“Caprica” will be set more than 50 years prior to the events of “Battlestar Galactica” and focus on the lives of two families — the Adamas (ancestors of future Galactica commander William) and the Graystones. Humankind’s Twelve Colonies are at [...]

“Troop reductions on the way” again/still.

Justin Logan offers initial responses to the initial reactions to the Fox article I discussed yesterday. Especially relevant excerpt:
Neither Ted nor I thinks that bombing Iran would be a good idea if the deal fails, but if you put that into the piece, you immediately limit your readership. The people who I’d like most [...]