Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
I just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. The book is about a few women in Afghanistan. The things that they go through, the things that are done to them, make a truly heart-breaking read, but it’s written so well that it’s hard to put down. Some of [...]

I’m heading to central Jersey today for the NJ State Triathlon tomorrow morning. I’ll be doing the short course. I may well blog tonight, given nearly ubiquitous broadband in America’s motels, but who knows. With enough luck I’ll see legends from the dawn of blogging Ginger Stampley and Michael Croft tomorrow before coming home.

Hilzoy gets very quotable on the subject of Republican Senators whose feelings have been hurt by Harry Reid:
According to Brooks, they feel that Harry Reid “they feel that Harry Reid is making it impossible” for them to break with the President.
News flash for the Senate Republicans: it is impossible for a human being to fly [...]

Or something. Man, I hope that’s not what really happens or I’m going to be the most hated blogger in history.
Pottermania! at the downtown Silver Spring, MD Borders tonight, around 10:45pm, an hour and fifteen minutes to launch. We ran into Thomas Nephew and his delightful daughter M. Thomas talked about the upcoming Bush [...]