Unqualified Offerings

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 [...]