Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Jim makes a good point about the repercussions of Iran fighting back against a US attack:
To the extent that Iran has any success sinking tankers, they encourage the rest of the world to, functionally, take America’s side in the conflict. Nobody wants tankers sunk – not producers, not consumers.
I happen to think that the [...]

T. has fun with Tom Friedman in comments downblog: “BTW, we need to wait and see whether Friedman’s change of heart actually sticks. The next six months will – ” but you know the rest.
And commenter just sayin makes the key point:
So what’s he plan to do to prevent the coming war with Iran?
Indeed, [...]

The historian Gabriel Kolko writes to Antiwar.com to explain why the Bush Administration will not attack Iran in an alternate reality, very much like our own, but where America’s political class thinks things through. Unfortunately, few of Kolko’s 9 bullet points hold in our own dimension:
1. THE U.S. AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIES are now in a [...]

Tom Friedman confesses:
What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.
Italics his; bolding mine. It’s not exact: 9/11 [...]

By Mona
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Clownhall has teh geys and their “lifestyle” down to a science, I tells ya, my emphasis.

Those pushing the homosexual agenda, including their accomplices in the media, typically portray presentable and socially successful persons who have purportedly made a lifelong and stable commitment to another person of the same sex. Over [...]

By Thoreau
In my final piece of Economist blogging today, I’ll note that the Economist has a nice article on biotechnology and biofuels. In a nutshell, ethanol is a popular biofuel because (1) people have known how to make it for a very long time and (2) a common ingredient for it comes from key [...]

By Thoreau
The media likes to report only bad news from ethnically and religiously divided federations with high rates of gun ownership. Why won’t they report any of the good news? Like the liberalization of Swiss cheese laws? Well, at least the Economist reports the good news. Time to re-up my subscription.

By Thoreau
The Economist reports this week on legalized online gambling in Britain.  In doing so, they note the training regimen of one professional poker player:
The snakeskin-clad Mr Ulliott, for instance, reportedly trains by making love for five hours at a stretch—“I like to get a woman and wring her out like a flannel,” he told [...]

By Mona
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Of course the Senate vote against MoveOn for the Petraeus ad was revolting. But now we are going to have a tit-for-tat congressional resolution denouncing the truly heinous Limbaugh attack on war-dissenter soldiers?
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Do we really want our federal legislature to institutionalize condemnations of political commentary?
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I do not. It is [...]

By Mona
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Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers (District 11, Omaha) has filed a lawsuit against God, and the Almighty has in turn filed reply papers. Does Walter Olson know?