Unqualified Offerings

by BruceB
I know that Jim and I, at least, remain very interested in the anthrax-ridden letters mailed shortly after 9/11/2001 to a variety of media and governmental targets, which killed half a dozen people. At the time they were part of the Iraq war scare, and now they’re almost never mentioned. Recently I discovered Richard [...]

by BruceB
…that the Beatles’ album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band came out. Tristero over at Digby’s blog has written one of his great musicological + sociological commentaries. For myself, I simply pause to note that although love and joy aren’t enough by themselves in the face of the world machine, without love and joy, [...]

Antiwar.com has the US Baghdad Embassy complex sketches and models the architectural firm pulled from its website. Click quick and see your tax dollars at work before they use some intellectual property loophole to vanish them from view.

By Mona
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The Commissar, who came to his senses about Bush not much later than John Cole and I did, holds forth on this Peggy Noonan WSJ Op-Ed (that I find wholly disingenuous) quite too kindly, but I agree with him that :

Meanwhile, [Bush] continues to display extraordinary tone-deafness. “We’re going to be [...]

By Thoreau
Wendy’s restaurants in NYC no longer provide nutrition information to customers, thanks to a new law requiring that if the information is provided it must be displayed in a particular manner.  No, really.  Check it out. Fortunately, you can still get the info from their website.
This is what happens when you try to micro-manage [...]

By Thoreau
Downblog we’re talking about the lowest possible threshold for a politician’s popularity. They’re suggesting that the 27% vote total for Alan Keyes in the Illinois Senate race represents the fundamental minimum level of popularity. It was proposed that this shall be called “Absolute Zero.” But that reference to the minimum temperature [...]