Unqualified Offerings

Well-done and entertaining profile of the blogosphere’s own Andrew Olmsted, American soldier, in the Rocky Mountain News. Andrew will be blogging more for the paper “starting today” according to the article. His current book recommendation is Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, by Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl. I can’t forbear noting that, anent my [...]

Appeasement never works! Except when it does. Madrid, Spain suffered the horrible train bombings of March 11, 2004. Shortly after, the newly elected Socialist Party government did what it had already promised to do before the election: withdraw all Spanish troops from Iraq. Clearly this demonstration of weakness only invited further attacks and escalating demands [...]

Mitt Romney has a slide show about terror! The website plays it very quickly. It can be stopped and restarted, somewhat laboriously, with the pause/play buttons if you really want to read the slides, but my suspicion is that that’s not the point. The point is to let them flow by you while you scull [...]

By Thoreau
Maybe, just maybe, some of the members in the gang of thugs that goes by the name “Bush Administration” will actually see the inside of a prison cell.  Or at least some articles of impeachment.
1)  General Taguba has a whole lot more to say about Abu Ghraib and Rumsfeld.
2)  A House oversight committee confirms [...]

I’d love to get answers to Putz’s questions too, but the Mother Jones interview with Glenn Reynolds about internet use by the two parties is actually pretty good, especially this passage:
There’s plenty of time for Republicans to step up their [internet] game, but I’m skeptical they will do it. They’ve gotten so used to winning [...]

Or a Nobilis flower rite:
Missing: Large Lake in Southern Chile
Via Poliblog.

My own jury is out on The National, but NPR currently has a streaming concert of their recent DC show available.

Swopa tries to carry water for the Dem front-runners on the “residual force” concept. It’s no more persuasive from Swopa than it is from the candidates. It’s all very nice that Hillary Clinton is cross-her-heart sincere in her vision of a residual force and that what she says is broadly in line with what the [...]

If you had zero violence and people were not feeling good about their future, where are you?
The General ponders. He’ll make a hell of a motivational speaker at network marketing conventions. (I’m thinking the answer to the General’s question is, “Someplace quiet.”) Reading the rest of the article brings home how it’s all about feelings [...]