Unqualified Offerings

Wild speculation: You don’t suppose the Seas of David Cell was just trying to scam their “al-Qaeda contact” (FBI informant) out of a lot of cool shit, do you? Reading the indictment (pdf) is suggestive. We’re told that at their first meeting on December 16, the conspirators tell their “al Qaeda contact” that they want [...]

“Blogofascism.” There’s a kernel of a truth in Lee Siegel’s plaint for The Non Republic’s, well, blog in
Conscientiously criticize, in the form of a real argument, blogospheric favorites like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and the response isn’t similar criticism, done conscientiously and in the form of an argument, but insults, personal attacks, and even [...]

And its name is “Narseal Batiste,” and it’s invisible to Google (as of Saturday morning), as is his group, the so-called “Seas of David.” Marisa Taylor and Leslie Clark of Knight Ridder write
A man identifying himself as Brother Corey said in an interview with CNN that he belonged to the group, called the Seas of [...]