Unqualified Offerings

No, not THAT kind of 3-way.  What I want is an election with 3 contenders.  Alas, that is not to be the case.  The worst Democrat in the Senate is polling 46%, Lamont is polling 41%, the sacrificial lamb Republican candidate is polling 6%, and 7% of Connecticut voters aren’t supporting any of them.  (The [...]

(Posted by Mona)
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The term “libertarian” has long engendered contentious internecine debate, and historically our ranks have seen schisms and purges. I don’t like those.
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But having said that, I am damned if I can see how some who today claim the label, even with this or that prefix or qualifier affixed, have anything to do with [...]

Tonight: Wow.
We missed Deadwood blogging last week, which meant we didn’t get a chance to note the ars poetica early in that episode. It comes when Charlie is discussing the tree in the middle of the new schoolhouse. Yes, he agrees, it might be a good idea to know every little detail about how the [...]

(Posted by Jennifer) 
I’m about to make a bold claim without any links to back it up, because I don’t mind living dangerously: if you do a survey of people who support strict gun-control measures, over 90 percent of them will tell you they can’t stand the Bush/Cheney administration. Don’t trust it one bit. Deplore what [...]

(Posted by Jennifer)
Problem number one: the United States has the highest prison population in the world. Problem number two: pharmaceutical companies in the United States are having difficulty finding human research subjects for their new drugs. Could the former problem somehow negate the latter? Maybe! The government wants to let pharmaceutical companies do medical research [...]

230 years ago:  The British tell us that we’ll have to pay a tax if we want to drink tea.
Response:  Revolutionary War.
Today:  The British tell us that it’s too dangerous to drink bottled water on planes.
Response:  TSA confiscates bottled water.
Conclusion:  Bush is Tony Blair’s poodle.
The logic is impeccable.

(Posted by Mona)
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According to a Brit source

U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests: British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says.
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LONDON – NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to [...]