Unqualified Offerings

Radley Balko’s best albums of 2006. I find Radley’s taste pretty reliable, though he ranks the Dixie Chicks album higher than I would, and I like but don’t love All the Roadrunning. There is an admitted poignancy to Emmylou’s “I probably had an affair with Elvis Costello” song, though it’s not much as art. But [...]

Writing about the DEA’s selective enforcement efforts against California’s medical marijuana providers, Steven Taylor includes a paranthetical
(Although clearly from the story, some of these folks aren’t just in it for the altruism of it all).
His point is apparently that some of the “larger providers,” the ones DEA is targeting, are trying to make a buck. [...]

A day after eligibility closed on the Beginning to See the Light Award for 2006, Greg Djerejian wonders if this “sustained surge” business is all that:

Hm. So the US had custody of Saddam Hussein throughout his trial, bound him over to the Iraqis long enough for some Sadrist militia men to hang the bastard, then took custody of the body again to fly it to Tikrit for interment?
With his plain pine coffin strapped into an American military helicopter for a [...]

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