Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
The medieval Jewish rabbi, physician and philosopher, Moses Maimonides, once took to his bed for a year. He wrote that upon learning of the death of his brother, my emphasis:

On the day I received that terrible news I fell ill and remained in bed for about a year, suffering from a [...]

IOZ has some words for the Senator. I would add that, my belief is that the immunity that Representatives and Senators enjoy for statements made from the floor of Congress in session probably extends to any charges the Administration might have tried to bring.

Hookers!
Alas, this country’s sex-scandal deficit remains depressing.
On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the “Pamela Martin and Associates” escort service “to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage.”
Tobias, who is married, said there had been “no sex,” and that recently he had been using another service [...]

Today’s hot article, A failure in generalship, by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling, is an intriguing mix of substance and nonsense. The most quoted parts are about what Yingling views as the dereliction of senior military leadership prior to and during the early years of what he still calls, publication lead times being what they are, [...]

You were thinking, doesn’t there need to be a blog devoted exclusively to Offering World HQ’s two fine border collies? And you were right. But only Mrs. Offering had the ambition and talent to start that blog. Featuring adorable pictures of children and puppies!

Digby travels down memory lane with Ashleigh Banfield. I completely missed this controversy first time around. A depressing story.

Eric Martin reiterates a point I made a few weeks ago: the so-called “Iraqi government” is simply one more theater of “armed competition for the oldest motivations in the book: money, power and respect.” He concludes
It’s time to get out of Dodge.
I would only change that to “it’s well past time.” And when I say [...]

The Washington Post writes a nice article on Taxi to the Dark Side, a documentary that will be shown soon at the Tribeca Film Festival. It chronicles our torture practices in Gitmo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The focus of the film is the death of an innocent Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar, who was [...]

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 [...]