Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
This says it all.
Well, this too:
The question lingers: should the debate between military commanders and the civilian leadership at the Pentagon have been more robust in the crucial early stages of the war? Even Dubois admits that the Army can’t afford to lose top performers like Batiste. As a result, we may be witnessing [...]

You know, Kelly Clarkson’s “Hazel Eyes” actually sounds really good when the instrumentals are from Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”.   Good job, Flounder.
(Not available yet on the web site, but I just heard it on the air.)

By Mona
Ollie North (at Townhall, natch):

Mothers Day. It’s a wonderful occasion for Pelosi and her comrades in Congress to reflect on what will happen to millions of Muslim women if Congress pulls the plug on their protectors.

Yeah, you Pelosi bitch, don’t go removing the protectors of all these Iraqi mothers [...]

By Thoreau
On Thursday and Friday my institution sponsored a retreat for postdocs. Some highlights:
1) Events began on Thursday afternoon with a talk by a scientist who has managed to transfer nuclei into fertilized eggs (calm down, Leon Kass, they’re only mice) rather than unfertilized eggs, producing clones. Previously, cloning had only been [...]

By Mona
Motorists in the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville area recently have been treated to roadkill haute couture:
Some of the dead possums and raccoons have been dressed in pet or human baby clothes and have had their claws painted with nail polish. The carcass of a deer has been adorned with gold paint.
The art [...]

The smug idiocy of Morton Kondracke makes me ashamed for my race and gender.

Major General Benjamin R. Mixon wants more troops for Diyala province. As Peter Spiegel, Tina Susman and Garrett Therolf report in the LA Times, Mixon is “withering in his criticism of the Iraqi government, saying it was hamstrung by bureaucracy and compromised by corruption and sectarian discord, making it unable to assist U.S. forces in [...]

By Mona
Tim Grieve reports the Veep sez (brief ad click through):
We didn’t get elected to be popular. We didn’t get elected to worry just about the fate of the Republican Party….
…we’re going to do absolutely everything we can to see to it that we do succeed and that we do prevail in [...]

By Mona

Notre Dame human rights scholar Doug Cassel: If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?
John Yoo: No treaty.
Cassel: Also no law by Congress — that is what you wrote in the August [...]