Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Based on some misunderstandings in the comments, there are a few things I should clear up:
1) I don’t want the US to attack Iran. I admit that I did say in a comment that there are some circumstances which, if realized, might cause me to support attacks on nuclear facilities. That’s [...]

By Mona
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-Voltaire
The multi-million dollar behemoth that is Townhall.com — joining talk radio giant Salem Communications with syndicated columnists and popular right-wing bloggers like Hugh Hewitt — is a good barometer of what passes for sane discourse among the contemporary [...]

By Mona
Yup, Haggard is totally straight — so says his minister/counselor, never mind Haggard’s 3-year relationship with a male prostitute:

“That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn’t a constant thing.”

Oh Lordy, it was just “acting-out situations” in which “things” happened. The Haggard [...]

James Fallows and Andrew Olmsted say that it’s more productive for Congress to pass a resolution against going to war with Iran than trying to pass one opposing the so-called Surge. I take their point. Now welcome to my nightmare.
It seems to me that the worst of all possible worlds is one in which Congress [...]

By Thoreau
A commenter named Adam on Hit and Run pointed out that the Onion is officially a work of prophecy:
From the BBC
The company that makes chocolate bars such as Mars and Snickers, is to stop targeting its advertising at under-12s.
Masterfoods will stop advertising in magazines and television programmes intended for children under the age [...]