Unqualified Offerings

Swimmer’s ear! I’m a real swimmer now! So, in place of the usual drill, 1) a recent beefcake picture of me; 2) some loyal readers had races of various sorts coming up. Brag on yourself in comments.

If not for the minimum age problem, I believe Unity ‘08 would have its dream candidate. Via, dammit, Unfogged.

By Thoreau
George Washington wants America to fail in Iraq:
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us [...]

By Mona
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Drug warriors: Keeping us safe from great-grandmothers who won’t testify against their progeny, and 93-year-old men. Prison is too good for these geriatric menaces!

I should probably spend time convincing you that the United States should not go to war with Iran. A good place to start would be something Yglesias wrote yesterday:
It really is striking how un-optimistic the more optimistic views of Iraq are when you get down to it. Michael O’Hanlon thinks our strategy “probably can’t succeed” [...]

Steve Clemons, guesting at the Dish, finds a milblog the Pentagon missed: Army of Dude. The entry on the Revolution of 1920s Brigades will feed some suspicions you probably already had. But I’m most struck by excerpts from another entry:
This occupation, this money pit, this smorgasbord of superfluous aggression is getting more hopeless and dismal [...]