Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
You know what the hardest part of this job is? The realization that I’m going to have to give out D’s and F’s. (D is just as bad as F for any student who needs more than one quarter of physics, since the prerequisite for the second quarter is C- or better [...]

By Thoreau
I was going to blog an article about saber-rattling towards Iran, but it’s too depressing.  Then I was going to blog about some academic stuff, but our unmedicated commenter (OK, I should narrow that one down ) is always offering career advice.  Finally, I decided to blog about the world of furries.  [...]

By Thoreau
Somebody’s going to have to put the squeeze on Kucinich to get him to apologize for this latest outrage against the throne:
“You cannot be a president of the United States who’s wanton in his expression of violence,” Kucinich said. “There’s a lot of people who need care. He might be one of them. If [...]

Understand I have no use for Rush and never have. But at length, I’ve come to admit that the one song had a point. IOZ and SMBIVA are on about how to change “the system, man.” And I’m all for it, for reasons we’ve gone into at length. What I’m convinced of, though, is that [...]

Frontline’s documentary on poet/undertaker Thomas Lynch may well be worth watching. Lynch’s first collection, Skating with Heather Grace (1987), made a big impact on me. Okay, in translation: I desperately wanted to be Thomas Lynch for like three years. I’m over it. But he’s an extraordinary figure.

Go to the website for the new Alison Krauss/Robert Plant collaboration, Raising Sand.
Click “Listen to Album” in the top right border.
Immediately advance to the second track, “Killing the Blues.”
DO THIS NOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

By Mona
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Lance at A Second Hand Conjecture parses Brian Doherty’s essay on the war in Iraq, wherein Doherty asserts that when contemplating war the question ought to be: “is this absolutely necessary given a fair consideration of the horrors and unpredictability of war and the purpose of the U.S. military?” Lance [...]

By Thoreau
OK, it isn’t exactly news that a revolving door between contractors and DoD leads to all sorts of corrupt contracting relationships.  But the Economist details how that relationship even extends to food companies:
Tyson Foods claims that the Army Centre of Excellence, Subsistence (ACES), an army agency in Fort Lee, Virginia, tends to award the [...]

Could it be Daniel Davies’ “One Minute MBA – Avoiding Projects Pursued By Morons 101,” that is actually the greatest blog post of all time? It certainly saves one time in figuring out what to think about the revival of Ahmed Chalabi’s political career:
There is much made by people who long for the days of [...]

My God.
My God.