Unqualified Offerings

A bare hour and a half after last night’s Run clinic (4 x 800m intervals with the usual warmup and cooldown around them), I went to Masters practice at the YMCA indoor pool and got in 3/4-mile of swimming. I am pleased to report that nobody imposed “sharia principles and sharia law in . . [...]

Suppose a rapper enjoined you to “Throw your hands in the air like it was the most important thing in the world.” What then?

I do not listen to your podcast. I do not watch your “vlogs.” I do read whatever you write. Just saying.

How it happened, according to me, exhumed from comments downblog:
What we can say about the Bush Administration is that it didn’t think to propose any expansions of the domestic security state until September 12th of its first year. Its enthusiasm for kicking foreign ass and transliterating unspellable names was limited to the sorts of “safe” [...]

By Mona
In my ongoing fascination with the fevered ravings at Townhall and various of its scholarly pundits, I today observe that Michael Medved’s mental world must be a very scary place, given that there are more than a few of these freak liberals among his fellow citizens:

“Enlightened” lefties long to embrace and exalt all those [...]

This is the funniest damn thing yet, providing you’re not on the receiving end of it and a, you know, human being.
Via Julian “El Mahdi” Sanchez.

As usual I have to link the Stiftung Leo Strauss because he’s the most important commentator on American politics today. He’s explaining the facts of life to Harold Meyerson. Meyerson has noticed:
The truly astonishing thing about the latest scandals besetting the Bush administration is that they stem from actions the administration took after the November [...]

The Brits have now made affirmative and detailed claims that their sailors were on the Iraq side of the line when the Iranian navy picked them up. Unless the Iranians have a convincing rejoinder, with equally detailed evidence, you have to consider the Brits as having the better of the argument now.

Senator Mark Pryor is my God.

“The House and Senate Are Shrill.”
UPDATE: Neener Neener! (VTS.)