Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Let’s take it from the top:
1) I rejected that manuscript. I worked up the courage to read past page 3 and realized that the introduction and theory sections of the paper had almost nothing to do with the measurements, and that after the measurements there was NO analysis or discussion whatsoever. [...]

I followed the My Pet Jawa link from Mona’s entry about the latest battle in the War on Hannukah, to discover that the New York Post decided to express its outrage at the crime and support for tolerance and fellowship by running eight pages of teenage cheesecake photos from one suspect’s MySpace page.
That’s so awesome [...]

By Mona
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Well, at least one Brooklyn Jewish man, Walter Adler, and his new Muslim friend, Bangladeshi Hassan Askari, are literally breaking bread and sharing bruises (in the hospital, where Adler is for now) after the latter saved the former from some “Christian” brigands who beat up Adler on the Q train [...]

Mr. Mowaffaq al-Rubaie suggests that he is not so keen on the United States having permanent bases in Iraq. At the same time, he is all for American troops doing things on his behalf into the indefinite future, perhaps out of the backs of trucks:
“We need the United States in our war against terrorism, we [...]

For a dissent from what I wrote the other day, see James Joyner. He makes some excellent points. The core of his critique is probably:
The problem, though, is that term, like “racism,” is bandied about so much as to not only be meaningless but to have a chilling effect on discussion of controversial issues. Indeed, [...]