Unqualified Offerings

Looking Sideways at Your World Since October 2001

Archive for October 26th, 2007

Friday, October 26th, 2007

I Just Learned Who I Used to Be, and So Can You!

By Mona
.
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. [...]

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Memory Lane

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.

Friday, October 26th, 2007

QOTD

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?

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Criminalizing What Comes Naturally

By Mona
.
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 [...]

Friday, October 26th, 2007

A Government of Their Peers

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 [...]

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Did a conservatarian steal your lunch money and make out with your girlfriend?

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 [...]

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Bad Crowd

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 [...]