Unqualified Offerings

The government is about to engage in a bipartisan expansion of the Army so we have enough troops to do even more of the things we shouldn’t be doing now. Chris Preble of Cato is the rare analyst willing to say, like the doctor in the classic joke, “Don’t do that.”

Not this Wednesday. But soon . . .
Those of you local to DC with a liking for the finer, more rarefied pleasures are on your own. The rest of you are invited to a poetry reading I’ll be giving on Wednesday, April 4th, 7:30pm at the Tenley Interim Library, 4200 Wisconsin Avenue, with my friends [...]

I got into a substantive enough discussion with Dave Schuler on the question of whom to believe in the arrested British seamen matter over on OTB that I don’t feel it’s cheating to point you to it. It’s pretty compact for a comment-thread debate. Meanwhile, frothing madman Mario Loyola of NRO suggests the Brits may [...]

Jim Webb’s staffer celebrates the striking down of Washington DC’s gun ban. Awesome!
Via OTB.
Matt Welch’s “Deadwood Democrats” item still available for the low, low price of a vast internetworked data infrastructure.

A classic Peanuts strip begins with Lucy shouting at an off-panel Charlie Brown to “Leave us alone, you blockhead!!” Linus arrives and warns her, “Be careful. You might offend him.”
“Offend him?” Lucy asks. “What do you mean offend him?”
Linus explains, “He might really be a blockhead.”
Michael Crowley of the New Republic argues pretty convincingly that [...]

By Mona
Well hell, just after I praise The Nation, at their web site they go and publish a paean to pro-Castro academic C. Wright Mills, authored by no less than the president of Cuba’s National Assembly. (What else to expect from a rag that had to be dragged kicking and screaming into admitting Julius Rosenberg [...]