Unqualified Offerings

Greets, all. Jim let me in, so this is all his fault.
For those who aren’t familiar with me, I’ll hit some relevant high points: I’m a left-drifting ex-libertarian; I’m 41; I have chronic health problems from overlapping immune, neurological, and other nastiness; I write and develop roleplaying games for a living, and hope to add [...]

By Mona
As Jim notes a bit below, one of my posts was picked up approvingly by an ant-Semitic site which also has no use for Little Green Footballs. This unpleasantness reminds me it is past time to post a very important data point I encountered several months ago. Among Religious Groups, [...]

By Thoreau
Not news: Publicity stunt to protest high gasoline prices. News: Gas station owner is behind it. Blogworthy: SUV owner drives long distance to show support, protest high gasoline prices.

The owner of Towne Market Mobil in this suburb north of Milwaukee shut down his pumps for 24 hours, hoping to start a [...]

By Mona
Jeff Goldstein, in the comments to a longish post of his I don’t quite fathom (no doubt due to intellectual deficits on my part when it comes to lengthy explications as to how linguistic machinations on the part of the MSM, and the nefarious activities in the academy’s Humanities departments, are responsible [...]

I still need to overcome my massive moment of inertia to do the things necessary to create the new permanent home for our guest-bloggers: Unqualified Gathering. Hey, it’s a long weekend! Maybe it will happen! In the meantime, I’m especially pleased to report that Bruce Baugh has accepted my invitation to join their roster, and [...]

The Oz Report asks, “Can you name one science reporter who was assigned to the Floyd Landis trial?” The answer appears to be that, no, nobody can. Instead, everyone from NPR to NYT sent sports or gossip reporters incapable of saying much more than Lots of boring sciencey guys talked science today.
Via Trust But Verify, [...]

Glenn Greenwald (note: now I’m doing it!) has what is generally an excellent item about the real enthusiasm for attacks on civilians, and the transformation of the Republican Party into “from Falwell/Robertson social conservativsm obsessed with abortion and gay rights into a macro version of the Little Green Footballs comment section, obsessed instead with, literally [...]

Kate gets bigger! We’ve had her just over a month now, and I think you can see the growth by comparing the first-ever Kateblogging picture:

Soon it will be time to sell her to the furrier and get a smaller, cuter puppy.
Kidding!
Now, Loyal Readers, especially the women among you. Mrs. Offering could use your help. Kate [...]

Ogged is just taunting me now.