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Anyone have any experience/opinion on the newish solar roof tiles?

Last time I wrote about the suits and countersuits between Blackwater USA and the survivors of the four Blackwater employees killed and displayed by that bridge in Fallujah back in 2004, people pointed out that for better or worse the men had signed contracts agreeing not to sue their employees. That’s a valid point. But [...]

I got news for you Brits: You can’t do our accents worth shit either.
This episode, BTW, is pretty lame so far.

We cannot rule out, on the basis of the text itself, that this is a clever parody of of the bubble mentality of the deadender Right. It’s practical effect will be to make the pro-war position seem absurd to whoever reads, or at least skims it. (I did the latter.) What we can rule out, [...]

Like fan service, but replacing titillation with world-weary cynicism. Nevertheless, this is what the official Democratic Party’s panties look like.
Via Avedon Eschatonian.

Beyond the subject of Chip Bok’s cartoon is a larger issue. One keeps reading about this or that Iraqi figure going abroad for “medical care” (including to diet clinics) or “spending much of his time in London now” or being on a “visit” to the Gulf, or Jordan, or Iran. The steady drip of stories [...]

This is depressing.

The 26%er creed:
Americans may do awful things, but our job is to pretend that they don’t . . .
Criminy. Every American institution is composed, like Soylent Green, of people. PEEEEE-PULLLLL!!! That extends to the national security bureaucracy and the military and well beyond those institutions.