Unqualified Offerings

Michelle Malkin writes
As many others who followed this story are now recognizing, this should provoke a bit of soul searching on our part. In retrospect, we had two choices: We could have chosen to believe that, in the chaos of Iraq, some clerical error had led to the omission of his name for the ordinary [...]

The Dallas-Seattle game was a “fantastic finish” that wasn’t very fantastic, an improbable cliffhanger depending on a string of fuckups. The one genuinely impressive moment was Lofa Tatupu’s saving tackle on third down, and the refs almost blew that one.
Tough football day: In game one I couldn’t enjoy rooting against either team and in game [...]

Dribble.
Somewhere from one to five brigades over the next five months. And apparently we’re going to pay Iraqis to repaint the schools and do really menial work too.
President Bush’s new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a jobs [...]