Unqualified Offerings

Oh, baby!
I was genuinely touched by the ending. The tight focus made for an effective change of pace, and it answered a few questions and asked some others.

By Mona
Clown Town Hall continues to showcase penetrating political and sociological insight, most recently from columnist Dinesh D’Souza whose recent book explores how the sexual depravity of a liberal-influenced America is the root cause of “why they hate us” and hence of 9/11, to wit: Muslims are rightly aggrieved by the [...]

Ahmadinejad:
This thing has turned into
a runaway train
Rice:
[Waves lantern]
Cash:
I can’t look!

The past really is another country. I would like to bomb it.
The Editors

Gah! Rolling along great – a rare treatment of class in SF television – and then, wipe wipe! they tidy it all up for the end of the hour. The double irony: I expected little based on the preview, then it all developed much more authoritatively than I thought it would, and then they ruined [...]

was written by Dave Weigel at Hit & Run. Dave does actual research and analysis that pretty convincingly deprecates the “Wilder effect,” aka “the 15 percent lie – the supposed percentage of whites who tell pollsters they would be willing to vote for a black candidate but in the privacy of the voting booth never [...]

By Thoreau
So, let’s say that one wants to reduce the amount of CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels.  Yeah, yeah, there are plenty of objections to be raised against that notion.  Let’s just table those for now, for the sake of argument.
Now, all sorts of statist proposals have been put forth to achieve that objective [...]

By Thoreau
Last week I read Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer:  Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements.  The main topic is movements and fanaticism, but it includes all sorts of observations on life, the universe, and everything.  I found it really, really interesting, so I’ve decided that for the next few days I’ll blog a [...]

Great Britain is withdrawing troops but sending compliant journalists. Damien McElroy’s gushing report from the USS Eisenhower, currently stationed off the Iranian coast, reads like a recruiting brochure. Then there’s this:

Iran’s belligerent posture has increased the challenges facing the Eisenhower since it deployed to the Middle East last October. Vice Admiral Patrick Walsh, the commander [...]

By Mona
Another day in America-hating Angry Left Bush-supporter, GOP extremism. CNN’s conservative commentator Glenn Beck finds common cause with Islamic jihadists, kinda like Dinesh D’Souza, who continues to hold vaunted places in right-wing institutions. Declares Beck:

BECK: You know, there`s a new poll out that Muslims, the higher educated Muslims in the Middle [...]