Unqualified Offerings

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Archive for May 18th, 2007

Friday, May 18th, 2007

This Just In!

Michelle Malkin and Fox News lie.

Friday, May 18th, 2007

The Knowledge Problem, the Continuing Story

Why we’ll never even speak the language of the people whose societies we’re supposed to be transforming.

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Cross of Gold, Baby!

Your next President, Ron Paul. Say hello to hard money and inbound troop transports.
Not really, of course, but it’s possible that a protest constituency could coalesce around Paul the way it did around Pat Buchanan in 1992, which could keep him viable late into the primary season. And if the other candidates continue the schoolyard-bully [...]

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Friday Kateblogging

Kate and Unqualified Dog bid farewell to Finnegan, whom they are sure would have made a great friend. And they’d like to remind everyone that dogs may not be people, but that also means that no dogs are assholes.
(Photo courtesy Kate and Dally blog.)

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Book Recommendation: A History of Pi

By Thoreau
No, not the popular novel The Life of Pi.  I’m talking about the mathematical constant represented by the Greek letter pi (=3.14159…).  A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann is a history of efforts to understand and calculate the number pi.
Beckmann goes all the way back to the ancients, and brings it to the [...]

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Kurds: “Hey, we can kill in God’s name too!”

By Thoreau
Every now and then, while despairing over the future of Iraq, I look at the Kurds and think to myself “Well, at least one region of the country is progressing toward some sort of liberal republic that isn’t plagued by religious and tribal warfare.”
Oops.
Yep, some Kurds got angry that their female relative was falling [...]

Friday, May 18th, 2007

(Extra!)Pitching Pennies at Poor Pammy Atlas

By Mona
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By all ye gods, this blackest of perfidy shall not stand! Arise patriots – to the battlements in defense of Wolfowitz:

Soros and his flying monkeys have raised eliminating effective Republicans to an art form.

EXTRA:
Pammy’s favorite (former) UN ambabassador John Bolton, who had given her an exclusive interview, lets a [...]