Unqualified Offerings

In comments below, Gary Farber writes
I do love the way Google is so blunt, and in this case makes so clear the astonishing figure: ”1 – 10 of 36,900 English pages from www.littlegreenfootballs.com for dhimmitude.”
36,900!
Effing 36,900!
UPDATE: It all just distracts America from the Klingon menace. Thank heavens the Brits aren’t so easil fooled.

Your Talking Dog has unearthed an early candidate for Appalling Irony of the Year:
The Talking Dog: I understand that in some cases, it has been alleged that detainees have been encouraged not to cooperate with their own attorneys, in particular when their attorneys are Jewish. Can you comment on this?
Thomas Wilner: That issue came up [...]

Recent live performances available from the KEXP website. There are six clips – I’m currently listening to “River of Love,” which is just about the bestest song evar, though I prefer the original acoustic studio version to this solo-electric one.
I’ve hardly listened to The True-False Identity yet because the retrospective, Twenty Twenty, has been monopolizing [...]

Gareth Porter offers more detail on the 2003 Iranian proposal for comprehensive negotiations with the United States, saying that Iranian-American Middle East Scholar Trita Parsi of Johns Hopkins has obtained a copy of the proposal summary. Let’s skip to the good part, shall we?
Before the 2003 proposal, Iran had attacked Arab governments which had supported [...]

Of course, if you replaced the references to “illegal immigration” with “jaywalking” instead of rape, you’d get yet another tone. Which only serves to show that, instinctively, we understand that jaywalking, illegal immigration and rape have distinct moral valences even though each constitutes “lawbreaking.”
(Via Glaivester.)

Brian Ulrich has some history. Not blogosphere history – history of the actual world.

Couple of links from Mrs Offering . . .
Hoffa Taunts US in New Video and (more genuinely) Hoffa Search Finds Town’s Sense of Humor.

The National Post apologizes for the dress code smear. Behind the pay wall!
(Via the Soup Blog.)
Gary Farber, who is to the UO comments parser as those people whose watches always stop working are to watches, and Mr. Google will not give me a pithy term for the phenomenon, has sent along some very interesting links [...]

Shocking new National Post headline.

I’ve got a galley of Soldier of Sidon! I’ve got a galley of Soldier of Sidon! I’ve got a galley of Soldier of Sidon!
See you in, I don’t know, a week?