Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Dear URKOBOLD,
I realize that as a physicist I am accursed and unworthy to type your trolly name. However, if you should decide that it amuses you to come here and whither the taints of the poor fools who besiege us, I promise that I will kneel before you for all eternity. I [...]

By Thoreau
In the last week or so I’ve heard some rumblings about Iraqis returning to Baghdad. Ah, so our plan to create a stable, prosperous, and liberal society at gunpoint is working! I mean, why else would people voluntarily move back to Iraq?
Neighbours such as Syria, which originally welcomed Iraqis, have found themselves [...]

By Mona
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It’s on video, and covers everything from Paul’s views on drug policy, prostitution and gay marriage. And not least the Iraq war, and when war is justified at all.
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Paul talks like a federalist — as neocons and most others on today’s right/GOP no longer do, or do so only [...]

By Thoreau Hussein Al-Blogistan X
How much do we need another thread to comment on Jim’s awfulness?
This much.

By Mona
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…but rather, am a libertarian, are largely those stated by F. A. Hayek many decades ago. The inestimable Jim Henley’s Henley Doctrine, to wit: “Hayek does not stop at the water’s edge,” has been only one of Jim’s many astute observations.
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Today’s conservatives especially fail to grasp this truth. Their antics [...]

By Thoreau Hussein X
In the past 24 hours, we have repeatedly been accused of running a liberal blog.  In the interest of balance, we are now going to post a special message from Vice President Cheney.

By Thoreau Hussein X
I always liked this skit.

By Thoreau X
But it could be worse.  Just check out this video about Jack Bauer (peace and blessings be upon his name).
Fortunately, with the writer’s strike, Jack is getting a blue sky holiday.

By Thoreau
Jim said that he is going to revisit the matter at hand and post new thoughts. The man happens to have a job, a family, and a life. We can cut him some slack on not posting immediately.
Geez. Do you guys really have to keep stomping around and crowing about how [...]