Unqualified Offerings

Christopher Hayes has a pretty good piece about the Ron Paul campaign in The Nation.
Out there just beyond the circle of the liberal blogs I read regularly, one runs into fury and incomprehension at the favorable impression Paul makes on a number of progressives and liberals, even though Paul is no progressive and no liberal. [...]

By Mona
Bill O’Reilly declares Kos and other left-wing blogs are “satanists.” The cat (or familiar, as it were) is out of the bag, folks. Here is a A Compendium of Demons and Dark Gods Left-wing and Libertarian-left Blogs.
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Jim, we must rename this site, oh, Astaroth’s* Offerings.
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And now for the first time [...]

Mrs. Offering and I just watched William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the 1996 Baz Luhrman movie, for the first time in a few years. I still like it very much. This time, I had to recognize how much more adroitly Clare Danes handles the dialog than Leo does. I had forgotten just how good Danes [...]

You can learn a lot from AP’s article about the pending recess of the Iraqi Parliament, though not about the pending recess of the Iraqi Parliament. Rather, it’s a primer in the mental habits of establishment media under tacit empire. Example one:
Dec. 30 [last day of just-declared recess] is one day before the end of [...]