Unqualified Offerings

You know, that was a pretty good episode. Zack Whedon wrote a nice script, and we learned some things. I hope there’s a second season, but if not, this would sort of pass for a conclusion.
Cass is doing more “John talk,” no? Also, I need to rewatch, and see what’s on the shuffleboard grid below [...]

Urgent from my perspective. I appreciate your reading the following:
Things I knew about Mona before last week:
She has a passion for freedom and justice.
She has copy-edited two professionally published books.
She has the courage and integrity to change her mind under new evidence: to learn.
Things I did not know about Mona before last week:
For health reasons [...]

I lay another marker down over on Crooked Timber. To repeat . . .
Tancredo’s got legs. I care so little about illegal immigration that I’ve been very slow to realize just how deeply anti-immigration sentiment runs in the Republican base. It probably has more support among primary voters than the Iraq War itself does. Any [...]

By Thoreau
Since the secondary purpose of the internet these days is cat pictures (the primary purpose being pr0n, of course), and since I am something of a fan of big cats these days, I thought I would have some fun and alert everybody to a new menace from the south: Jaguars.
That’s right. Jaguars [...]

By Mona
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As has been observed by me and many others for years now, what it is to be “liberal” v. “conservative” no longer means what those designations did during the 90s, when social issues predominated, nor even during the Cold War era. Folks who are not hostile toward gays and who support [...]

By Thoreau
This morning’s Washington Post has an account of the debate that led to passage of the East Germany Restoration Act. Two things leap out. The first, and scariest, is that death threats were involved:
Congressional, administration and intelligence officials last week described the events leading up to the approval of this surveillance, including [...]