Unqualified Offerings

. . . out to be Number One. Tom Friedman is not “the person who, by far, was most responsible for selling the war to centrists and liberal “hawks” and thereby creating “consensus” support for Bush’s war.” That was unquestionably Colin Powell. There’s a passage late in Woodward’s State of Denial where a Democratic Senator, [...]

Not as bad as people thought it would be, but the ending was too neat.
I do find some references to a tradition of shipboard boxing, though my 1:15 minutes of effort hasn’t turned up anything very detailed. Still, the way one martial arts instructor refers to “the shipboard boxing matches” makes them sound commonplace, and [...]

Julian Sanchez writes about the latest bedwetter hissyfit, the pending swearing-in of newly elected congressman Keith Ellison:
The main reasons [Dennis] Prager’s wrong have been rehearsed at enough length, but what struck me was that a Christian would even want to insist on as farcical a public ritual as having Ellison swear on a Bible he [...]

Don’t you figure that rumblings about “the 80% solution” were why King Abdulllah summoned Dick Cheney last weekend and had Mr. Obaid write the grumpy letter?