Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
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As directed, I plugged in my birthdate for my present life, and this site gave me my “past life analysis”:

I don’t know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere in the territory of modern North China around the year 700. [...]

Tonight I find myself rereading the greatest blog entry of all time. Do note the date. CP disappeared from the blogosphere after that. Wherever he is tonight, I hope he’s enjoying the ‘real life’ thing.

Comes from nominal co-blogger Neel, in comments:
[C]an it really be so hard to point out that the security policy of the Republican party is to pick fights with Third World countries and lose?

By Mona
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Another victim of absurd statutory rape laws — when applied to teen “perps” — sees a bit of late justice:

[Genarlow ]Wilson, 21, was convicted in 2005 of having oral sex with a consenting 15-year-old girl when he was 17.

Wilson spent more than two years locked in a cage before the Georgia [...]

Here’s your topic: What perverse consequences, if any, would flow from choosing legislators randomly, a la jury pooling? A separate pool of randomly chosen electors would choose the President. OR, the legislators would do so. One house of the legislator would have random electors chosen for a two-year term; the other for six.
Ruled out of [...]

By Thoreau
We’re getting a lot of grief from commenters who want to accuse us of being the sort of libertarians who give unflinching support to any lunatic who promises a small tax cut, even if torture is part of the package deal. And, worst of all, we supposedly want that torture chamber to be [...]

Phil Nugent is partly correct in his hilarious and acute consideration of the content of Rudy Giuliani’s character:
Again, the difference between him and Bush shows in their taste in cronies. Both are mindlessly devoted to cronyism, but Bush picks out genial, no-talent losers like himself–folks like Michael Brown and Harriet Miers and Alberto Gonzalez–and sticks [...]