Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
First former USC law professor Erwin Chemerinsky gets turned down for a job because some LA-area conservatives are mad at him.  Now OJ is being held without bail.
Shit, I can remember the good old days when being from the University of Special Connections actually meant something.  Now it looks like my rolodex is useless.

By Mona
.
Gene Healy on conservative mutation:

Almost to a man, the conservatives who coalesced around William F. Buckley’s National Review in 1955 associated executive power with liberal activism and viewed Congress as the conservative branch. In 1967 the right-wing intellectuals Russell Kirk and James McClellan praised the late Ohio Sen. Robert Taft, [...]

*Ordinary Life in Baghdad – Not so ordinary, despite what the President tells you.
* Hubris Desperately Seeking Nemesis in FPIF’s article on air and robot war in the GWOT era:
“It is possible that in our lifetime we will be able to run a war without ever leaving the US,” Lt Col David Branham told [...]

By Thoreau
Weeds is a gateway show.  Serious.  This shit is addictive.  Next thing you know I’ll be getting the Sopranos from Netflix.

AEI bars journalist and columnist Jim Lobe from attending its events. Figures.

James Bovard has pictures from the march I didn’t attend yesterday.
NB: Despite Bovard’s headline, only one picture is Ron Paul-related.

By Thoreau
I know that Jim just wants us bloggers to express ourselves, but sometimes I don’t feel like I have the same flair as, say, Mona.  Well, with my new toy I’m feeling more expressive.
Don’t worry, Jim, I’ll make sure I get the cover sheets on all my TPS reports.  I even have a stapler [...]