Unqualified Offerings

When your wife calls your cell from the motel 500 miles away to check in, have Jay-Z’s Kingdom Come playing really loud and shout into the phone that you’re having trouble hearing her where you are. Works best if she doesn’t know you own the record because you don’t – you’re getting it off the [...]

Chris Kelly on the John Doe Pledge, refutation of Peak Humor Theory:
It’s like Pat Benatar wrote Braveheart.

As a preamble, even this blog wasn’t all war all the time in March 2003. The very first entry links to a series of anti-Ashcroft items by Radley Balko. What’s funny is that we’d take Ashcroft back in an instant now! My greatest achievement in this instance is not following up the Radley quote with [...]

Home alone as I am, with Mrs. Offering and Offerings: The Next Generation off to the in-laws for Spring Break – since none of them work in the Finance Department, so quarter close is as nothing in their world – I’m going to spend the evening doing this “review your March 2003 archives” thing before [...]

By Mona
At Human Events he vacuously shrieks cogently explains that Bush and torture opponents have a “suicidal inability to come to grips with evil,” and he also exhibits his historical acumen:
Today’s Men and Women of Munich
Today, we have the Men and Women of Munich. Just as before, these are elites who are afraid to face [...]

It’s been a while since i blogged about 24, but I feel like I should clue you guys in, given what a bad reputation the show has around here:  The latest development this season involves a Vice President who’s willing to do whatever dirty tricks might be necessary to circumvent the limits on his authority [...]

By Thoreau
This morning’s Washington Post has an excellent editorial cartoon.  Bush is watching a video of a British sailor detained in Iran, and he says “People will say anything when they’re detained and coerced.”
Now, I admit that I don’t follow the right wing yakkers as closely as some here, but I’m betting that they’re saying [...]

By Mona
James Randi reports that on the Isle of Man, there is a petition circulating:
The Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 has rarely been used in the prosecution of mediums and psychics, who claim to contact the dead relatives of people. Yet there are increasingly more TV shows and live acts where people claiming to be mediums [...]

By Thoreau
Since we’ve been talking about the unique dangers posed by this administration, let me ask you this: When did you first conclude that there was something uniquely dangerous about this administration?
(I think I posed this question once on Inactivist before the archives were lost, but I’ll pose it here.)
I wasn’t especially worried about [...]

By Mona
Well, actually, right now at Townhall Chuck Colson has a very moving and moral piece describing the U.S.’s atrocious abandonment of the Iraqis who have collaborated with our soldiers, and who, along with their families, are therefore targets for death by Sunni and Shiites alike. Writes Colson about the enormous favor we have obviously [...]