Unqualified Offerings

Matt asks
Under the circumstances, it’s worth noting that given that we live in a country of 300 million, that one man has ridiculous opinions is hardly surprising. What is surprising is that he has this column on The Washington Post and makes frequent appearances on Meet The Press.
This has a lot to do with the [...]

Everybody picks on poor Michelle Malkin for her fetish turn of the other day. My only regret is that, because the iron law of institutional self-perpetuation, Hawkery Rumpery doesn’t down tools and go buy themselves some Wiis – Malkin’s video clip packs everything her tendency has left to say into as efficient a vehicle as [...]

Disclosure: While I never talk about my day job on the blog, for the purposes of this article you should probably know that I work for a company that uses a combination of domestic and overseas inbound call centers, and have, in the words of a classic Monster.com ad, “claw[ed] my way up to middle [...]

By Thoreau
Dennis Kucinich has introduced articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney, for lying and misrepresenting intelligence in order to lead us into war.
I whole-heartedly approve of this. First, while I’m aware that we have less than 2 years left with this thug, it is important to send a message to future administrations (hence the [...]

By Thoreau
Yesterday, on the floor of the House, one of the few (the only? not sure) Iraq veterans in the House said:
“How many more suicide bombs must kill American soldiers before this president offers a timeline for our troops to come home?” asked Rep. Patrick J. Murphy (D-Pa.), a freshman Iraq war veteran who [...]

Here’s the thing with John Edwards’ haircuts. Right now we’re at Level One Media Laziness. The bill happens to have fallen into journalist hands; some competitor spokesfolks have been willing to dish; and the bill fits nicely into the preexisting “pretty boy” overstory. It’s an easy paycheck if you’re a reporter. Indeed, they should be [...]

By the way, Bill tells me that the proper response when Leonard Cohen’s is looking at one’s drawings and saying “You’re very talented” is, “well, you are too.”
Next time I’ll know. In my defense, it was Leonard Cohen and my brain sort of seized up.
Michael Arthur.
Via Costello-L.

If the Manolo were the gambling man, he would be willing to bet that other candidates are also spending many hundreds of dollars each month on their hair care.
Via Dynamist Blog.
You know, if we had reporters in this country, they could actually find out the hair-care costs for all the candidates rather than just assuming [...]

Arthur Silber explains how the Justice Department figures that, if the government is stuck allowing lawyers for the accused at Gitmo, they can at least try to abridge that right into meaninglessness. His larger point is crucial, if somewhat implicit: merely swapping out the parties in control of the Executive Branch doesn’t fix the real [...]