Unqualified Offerings

Remember back in March when I said the real blog retrospectives should have been Feb 2003 and June 2003? Cause I remembered. Jumping the gun a little bit, I wrote the following four years and two days ago:
We can be sure of the following: the men and women of 3ID, like the rest of us, [...]

Just over four years ago, Loyal Reader Melinda Haire sent me a link to a story about Baghdad’s first metal band. (You never know what you’re going to find in your archives.) It turns out the band still exists and someone’s been making a documentary about them. Needless to say, like all bands, they have [...]

General Odierno announces that US commanders at all levels are putting out feelers about ceasefires with pretty much any group of insurgents that wants to enter into one. This is smart thinking for a couple of years ago. It’s also unlikely to produce any enduring peace because the bedrock demand of any group d/b/a The [...]

George Bush’s popularity is now at the Margin of Crazification discussed on Kung Fu Monkey back in 2005 and again early this year:
John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is –
Tyrone: 27%.
John: … you said [...]

By Mona
Mark Noonan at Blogs for Bush is deeply worried about “hot looking chicks dressed up in brazen sexuality and singing songs suggestive of a willingness to get horizontal.” And so, Mark wants us to do something, and “swiftly”:

Unless and until we do stand up, what will happen is an [...]

By Mona
Neanderthal-in-a-suit neoconservative sage and documented liar, Michael Ledeen, asserts that it is impossible for almost everyone to say how things are going in Iraq, my emphasis.

It is important for people, even Professors, to understand how quickly things can change in Iraq….Very few people know enough about Iraq to make [...]

By Thoreau
Can anybody clue me in on some basic issues of Iraqi oil production? I read various things that may or may not be true in various news sources, and I don’t know what to trust. Here’s what I’m specifically wondering about:
1) Is Iraq producing much oil these days? A while [...]

Got to spit back up what they once digested.

Joe Lieberman talks to The Troops. The troops talk back.

By Thoreau
I’m going to offer a possible defense of the Democrats. I’m not sure that I believe a word of it, but I want to explore this idea. So, criticize away, that’s what I’m tossing it out for, but don’t extrapolate anything from my other posts to this post, or vice versa.
There is [...]