Unqualified Offerings

Much, much better than the one that will actually get made:
While watching the production line in Engels’ Manchester plant, Marx gets bitten by a radioactive proletarian and develops the proportionate strength of a malnourished yet plucky East End family, plus the ability to spin Cockney slang out of his ass. He designs an enormous wig [...]

Isn’t Swopa’s speculation about the fell hand of Shaha Riza in bringing Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank kind of . . . sexist? The conniving bitch bends the Bush Administration and her boyfriend to the task of redeeming her resentments, then throws the boyfriend over when his usefulness ends? I think the men in [...]

Jim Macdonald has a very important explanation of where the new “dodgy dossiers” come from.
Which means that this “intelligence” was almost certainly extracted under torture, which means that it’s almost certainly a complete fantasy. As in “nonsense.” As in not based on “reality” as you and I understand the term. Al-Libbi would have confessed to [...]

By Mona
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D.A. Ridgely attempts to determine whether the flamingoes in question are inherently gay, or merely opportunistically so. (And he parses the theological implications — all in the same post in which he contemplates John Waters!) As DAR wrestles with these vexing issues, I would remind my former co-blogger [...]

Gary Farber discusses a report on the crimp in niceties at the American embassy. Authoritative spokestrons assure us that it’s just the weather. Gary notes that according to other spokestrons in the exact same article, the problem is just the weather
also “paperwork” and “traffic” and, ah, “security issues.”
Yeah, about that weather. I looked at Weather [...]

By Mona
In the lost Inactivist archives, I had posted a lengthy discussion as to how both left and right have been singing paeans to the statist virtues of “mandatory national service.” The notion is part of the Big Plan proffered by Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel and President of the Democratic [...]

(By Thoreau)
…regarding evolution:
It’s equally true of, say, meteorology, which also provides an alternative explanation to “God just did it” for natural phenomena, but it would not normally occur to anyone to make this point about meteorology. Mostly because nobody imagines that meteorologists think a model of the motion of cold fronts tells us anything about [...]

By Thoreau
There’s a new survey out of American Muslims. As expected, we kick Europe’s ass when it comes to assimilating immigrants:
The survey by the Pew Research Center found that 78 percent of U.S. Muslims said the use of suicide bombings against civilian targets to defend Islam is never justified. But 5 percent said it [...]