Unqualified Offerings

Show some stones, Senators. A special prosecutor would take forever to report, even if you got one installed. Most testimony would be in camera before a grand jury. It would take a round of testimony under oath to produce fresh lies for a perjury indictment, assuming a special prosecutor indicts him at all. Cite him [...]

Pretty interesting article about nerdism whose thesis is that nerdiness amounts to a willful “hyperwhiteness.” I find it at least half compelling. Then I remember that there was a concept of nerdiness back in rural Southwestern PA when I was growing up in the 1970s – believe me on this – and that my white [...]

By Mona
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So….Texas Governor Rick Perry has appointed creationist Don McElroy to head the Texas State Board of Education. According to James Randi quoting “bad astronomer Phil Plait”:

Here is a letter McElroy sent out to his fellow State Board of Education members:
My Personal Confession
Given all the time in the world, I don’t [...]

Says Anne-Marie Slaughter’s oped not the dumbest thing ever written by anyone in any venue. She gives the game away when she calls Charles Krauthammer “stupid.” Krauthammer is evil, not stupid. If you started from the question, “What would the bitterest mean man in the world believe?” and went from there, everything Krauthammer writes would [...]

Two passages from Steve Chapman’s reprise of the problems with Hillary Clinton:
[Clinton] didn’t support the war because she was hoodwinked by Bush. She didn’t do it for strictly political reasons. She supported it because of her conception of America’s proper role in the world—which combines a thirst for altruistic missions with a faith in the [...]

Wow.
Assuming everyone passes their drug tests anyway . . .
That was a thrilling time trial. When Levi passes Sastre I figured he had a chance at least at second. You have to admire Evans for holding up in the last 5K. Two years ago Levi was a climber with indifferent time-trial speed. Now he really [...]

The only honorable thing to do is admit that Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new oped in the Washington Post beats Anne Applebaum out for the title of dumbest thing ever written by anyone in any venue. If it weren’t print, I’d expect her to break into a rendition of “Fly Away, Lesbian Seagull” like the hippie teacher [...]

IOZ:
Anyway, this all falls under my own maxim: Don’t listen to what they say; look at what they do. In this case, category Say is “prevent a wider regional war” and category Do is “pour billions of dollars worth of arms into the fragile, quarrelsome, precarious neighbors of an escalating civil war ever percolating under [...]

By Mona
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What can one say, when war supporter “Armed Liberal” approvingly quotes psychologist (and apparently former Army Ranger) David Grossman who glibly spews, my emphasis:

…[Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] can be a step on the path to stress inoculation and …one can be stronger when they come out the other [...]