Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
Jim, Thoreau, and ye shrill bloggers hither and yon, look who is reading us and promoting us to — wait for it –the American Enterprise Institute!
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Lieberman: ‘Bloggers Have Added Another Dimension of Vituperation Toxicity’ To Politics
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Yes, and speaking with Lieberman at AEI and rending his garments over the woeful [...]

Not bad, but they can’t choreograph a fight scene for love nor money. The obvious plot hole that must be forgiven to enjoy the show is the idea that Future Hiro could hide out at Isaac’s old studio. Ventimiglia managed some gravitas behind the scar, which was nice. And that was a pretty good scar!
Obviously, [...]

By Mona
Being a mercurial sort, I don’t feel like posting much lately (that will change in the twinkling of an eye). At the moment, I am rereading this, our former Defense Secretary’s 1995 attempt to cleanse his soul:

I expect in due course to have some observations relative to current events. For [...]

…but he swears he has no recollection of ordering any of the firings:
BAGHDAD, April 29 — A department of the Iraqi prime minister’s office is playing a leading role in the arrest and removal of senior Iraqi army and national police officers, some of whom had apparently worked too aggressively to combat violent Shiite militias, [...]

Chris Difford on the Squeeze reunion tour.

comes, as so often, from Cernig. It is, frankly, another item in the, “No really, it’s leaving Iraq that gives the best hope for reconciliation” genre, but Cernig amasses impressive and new supportive detail.

Some good links this week!
First, the MatthewYglesias.com memorial link: NBA ref Dick Bavetta’s “I’m a Runner” interview from the current month’s Runner’s World. Bavetta does 8 miles a day, plus his games, which are another 6-8 miles of running.
Next, a really good account of this year’s Barkley Marathons (sic) from the Washington Post. Barkley is [...]

Atrios writes about media inconsistency regarding who is and isn’t fair game when it comes to reporting on the private lives of public figures.
Years ago, Christopher Hitchens wrote that he went into journalism because he didn’t want to have to rely on the media to get the news. I’ve felt that way in conversations with [...]

By Mona
Madame Deborah Jeane Palfrey, of Pamela Martin and Associates, ran a DC “high-end adult fantasy firm which offered legal sexual and erotic services across the spectrum of adult sexual behavior and did so without incident during its 13 year tenure.” Among those whom Mme. Palfrey plans to call [...]

By Thoreau
In the past couple weeks I recall reading somewhere (sorry, can’t recall where, so I can’t give proper attribution) a comment that dictators don’t need to use ideological terrorists if they really want to do a surprise WMD attack on another country. They could always just tell their spies (who specialize in being [...]