Unqualified Offerings

Atrios remembers the lunatic atmosphere of war:
In the pre-war period in this country there was something truly wrong with our country. Madness had taken hold and infected our public discourse. Those of us who came to the rather obvious conclusion that the notion that Saddam Hussein was any kind of threat to this country was [...]

Gene Healy praises do-nothing presidents, and wonders where historians get their taste for blood. Excerpt:
But wherever Bush ends up, there’s something odd about the preference of scholars for crusading presidents with contempt for constitutional limits. Last year, in a piece for Foreign Policy, University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner examined the WSJ/Federalist survey and [...]

Kissing Suzy Kolber has a funny parody of Gregg Easterbrook’s TMQ column. I think Easterbrook is a better football writer than KSK gives him credit for, but I did stop reading the column regularly a couple of years ago because it was so long and so formulaic.
Via too hot for tnr.

Comes from Monsieur IOZ:
Conservatives are collectively the world’s worst marketing department. They don’t believe in the appeal of the thing that they’re selling.

I haven’t noticed obsessive coverage of the anti-government protests in Lebanon by Hezbollah supporters and its allies (including some Christians). Per the standard theory propounded by everyone from the White House to the Tom Delay blogroll, that means that, for once, the-media-is-the-enemy are not giving hope to “this country’s enemies.” And yet, those wacky foreigners [...]