Unqualified Offerings

Brian Doherty’s spiff-looking new history of the modern libertarian movement, Radicals for Capitalism, now has its own website. I hope to score a copy soon and tell you what I think of it.

On the other foot for a second, let’s see Iran actually prove this. It’s easy to say you did it.
(Via Needlenose.)

Primitive Iraqi Man Was Tool-User, Journalists Find:
PRESIDENT BUSH HAS now definitively stated that bombs known as explosively formed penetrators — EFPs, which have proved especially deadly for U.S. troops in Iraq — are made in Iran and exported to Iraq. But in November, U.S. troops raiding a Baghdad machine shop came across a pile of [...]

Tom Petty, 1979
two cars parked on the overpass
rocks hit the water like broken glass
I shoulda known right then it was too good to last
God it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
Tony Snow, 2007
Snow replied: “I’m not sure anything went wrong.” He elaborated: “At the beginning of the Civil War, people [...]

By Mona
Over at HuffPo, Deepak Chopra points out in Part I of his series critiquing evolutionary biology, that it has entered the realm of flim-flam:

Recently quite a few stories have appeared in the media touting new explanations for such diverse things as altruism, generosity, and music. These complex matters, we are [...]

By Mona
Certainly I do not see eye to eye with Bill Moyers on a variety of matters, and that includes has reasoning in defense of tax-payer funding of PBS. Nevertheless, he is an honorable and deeply thoughtful man, and many points he makes in the PBS-funding context and others are often [...]

In response to a story about 160 laptops and guns that went missing from the FBI, the Onion said:
“It must be humbling for the FBI to know they have worse security than a CompUSA.”
The next time I’m the victim of a crime, I’m calling CompUSA, not the cops.