Unqualified Offerings

Because this medium was made for liveblogging PBS miniseries. Not that I’ll be making a habit of it.
The Civil War was an achievement because Burns found new ways to make video history of a time before archival footage existed, also a time with no living survivors to interview. Burns and The Civil War have their [...]

By Thoreau
With all of the hoopla about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visiting New York, I just realized that I know absolutely nothing about his wife. From watching him I get a vibe that Mrs. Ahmadinejad has a lot of clout. Then again, I doubt his wife would let him go to state events in that [...]

By Thoreau
US officials have been saying for a while that Iran is arming militias in Iraq, so it isn’t really news that they’re saying it again.  And, to be honest, it wouldn’t really be shocking if the allegation is true.  (Although any time a US government official makes an allegation concerning weapons and the “axis [...]

Antwaan Randle El is my god.
Moments later: And it’s a monotheistic faith, let me tell you.
My 4-12 prediction starts looking up again. A team that can’t routinely score 20 points is a team going nowhere.

My God.

By Mona
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The copy-editing work has been coming in nicely, and I propose that for one assignment I will complete at the end of October to dedicate the remuneration to a new computer, since the one I have is a rebuilt job put together by a friend of my son’s, and I don’t [...]

My hazy impression formed from ancient (in internet time) citations from Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ blog was that he held bog-standard neolibertarian positions on pretty much all issues foreign and domestic. Time to update my hazy impressions!
My contribution to bipartisan healing: How about a joint campus forum with Amahdenijad and Larry Summers! Suggested topic: Why [...]

Jim Lobe’s deconstruction of the latest George W. Bush: Prophet Without Honor twaddle from Michael B. Oren and Mark Gerson is largely correct, I think – the authors have an audience of one in mind, George W. Bush, and a goal of flattering him that much closer to bombing Iran. A secondary purpose is simply [...]

We had a bit of a dust-up on this blog about British actors trying to do American accents during a Doctor Who thread a month ago. Here’s a new video from Slate about a London acting coach who teaches American accents to British actors, via McMegan, who writes amusingly of her own encounter with British [...]