Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Tonight I am angry. My wife just told me that her co-worker’s husband, who had submitted his resignation from the military, is being sent to Iraq anyway. The co-worker is moving to Texas to be with family while her husband is in harm’s way.
There’s no rational reason why I should be any [...]

I should note that the spicy tuna-steak sandwich here at the Atlantic Coast Cafe was delicious! And they never bothered my about parking in their comfy chair for six hours. (NB: I had three bottled beverages, the aforementioned sandwich and a delicious slice of chocolate brownie cheesecake during my stay.) Let it be known: Atlantic [...]

Greenwald:
This is the most extraordinary aspect of our political culture. Rep. Davis’ assumption is that we are going to be fighting a series of “wars.” That is just a given. And the only question is whether we will fight our wars “wisely” or unwisely. We are a nation more or less permanently at war, and [...]

IOZ boils it down for those of us who have been off the grid for a few days:
So. To keep score. The United States is supporting: the Shia government, which funnels money and arms to Shia militias, death squads, and insurgent/terrorist groups; the Sunni opposition, which funnels money and arms to the Sunni insurgency; the [...]

Counts of unread posts in Google Reader, after not logging on since Sunday:
The Daily Dish – 78
Eschaton – 69
Matthew Yglesias – 49
Hit & Run – 36
Newshog – 32
I despair of getting through all those. And that’s just the top five.

Comes from Yglesias, riffing off Mona:
Moral factors, it turns out, couldn’t compensate for the fact that Russia is very big, extremely cold in the wintertime, and pretty far from France.
See also: Um, me!

Hey, is the war over yet? I’m sitting in a very comfy chair in the Atlantic Coast Cafe in Salvo, Hatteras Island, but I’ve only had time to boot up the computer so far.