Unqualified Offerings

(posted by Jennifer)
Wired magazine has a horrifying article that starts with a description of a Consumer Products Safety Commission SWAT team raiding a home-based scientific equipment business whose client list includes the Department of Homeland Security and fire departments training HAZMAT crews. Why? Because they sold items, traditionally associated with kids’ chemistry sets, that could [...]

Blogging is not terrible, therefore we grow too fond of it.

I’m hesitant to praise Andrew Olmsted’s retrospective on Iraq too much, because doing so smacks of “Oh, you finally agree with me!” but it’s an excellent and not at all defensive or obfuscatory recap of why invading Iraq was always a bad idea. Read it, please, and let me concentrate here on a couple of [...]

[posted by Leonard]
Since Belle mentioned the weird concept of “actually existing anarchy”, I thought I might help a bit by giving her something to chew on.
The concept here is simple enough: according to this article by Alfred Cuzan, we’re never really out of anarchy. Obviously, a counterintuitive idea; what does he mean [...]

[Posted by Belle Waring]
Recently, I was thinking to myself, “self? You don’t have enough blogs.” And then I was like, “what, are you fucking drunk?” And then my self said “yeas,” which explained a lot. But right then I got an email from Jim Henley saying, “hey, you want to wreck up my blog with [...]