Unqualified Offerings

BFD. I went for a quick half-hour bike ride through Sligo Creek Park after dinner tonight and I saw Iranian Republican Guard Corps forces all over the place. I recognized them by their brown pelts – some dashed with white markings along the sides – and upturned white powder-puff tails. Some were chewing grass while [...]

Gary Farber on the pants man:
Which is to say, if you’re a lawyer, or just knowledgeable about legal phrasing and documents, and willing to spend a certain amount of time generating and mailing documents, you can wind up being offered $12,000 if you’re sufficiently obnoxious and persistent, no matter how feeble, frivolous, and meretricious your [...]

By Thoreau
I agree with everything that Jim said below.
Yes, it was that good.  So I’m taking this blog to a very meta place.

I didn’t think last night’s episode was that good. Freddy’s hapless assistant Palaka represented a quarter-turn too far on the farce dial to my tastes and Mitch’s obvious willingness to sleep with Cass on the day he expects his grandson to die makes him fatally unlikeable. There were still good things in the episode. Cissy [...]

Speaking of Cheney and Addington and the theories that will keep Addington from vacationing farther away than Key West for the rest of his life, can we pause one more time to contemplate what a crock this “commander-in-chief” power is? The more I think of it, the less I think the framers intended it to [...]

Of commentaries on the famous WP Cheney series, I’ve gotten the most from Hilzoy’s. I’ll only add that Dick Cheney played a large role in selecting the Bush Administration’s cabinet and senior staff and he knew what he was doing when he gave the nod to Rice and Powell. Surely at the top of his [...]