Unqualified Offerings

Dear Diary: Are you sure Loyal Reader Andromeda got started this way? It’s one week to race day. Three of us from the Y-Tri team – Coach Angela, Richard and I – are at the South Carroll Pool Club about to give the bike course a single spin before tapering, and with a passive-aggressive hiss [...]

I haven’t been a Sopranos watcher – I expect to get to it via DVD one day – but I did tune in the finale. It looks like Gene Healy came closer to the actual ending than other people who speculated, though he didn’t guess at the undecidability. Overall, I liked what seemed to be [...]

Yglesias gets up early in the morning so nobody gets things by him:
Re-reading the piece [about Bush/Pentagon plans for the permanent bases in Iraq we always knew they sought] it dawns on me that this plan is tragically consistent with the Democratic mantra of withdrawing “combat forces” from Iraq but leaving troops for training, force [...]

By Mona
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Michael Ledeen has never, ever advocated a military invasion of Iran. Those (like me) who have claimed he is being coy and that that is and has always been his entire objective, have been pilloried for denigrating the honor of this oh-so-decent man. Calumny most foul, it has been! We do not understand his [...]