Unqualified Offerings

Speaking of the frontiers of video entertainment, I present SarcasticGamer’s WiiFit parody video.

Looks like Ed Morrissey is the first blogging dog to chase the “brokered convention” stick this cycle. Usually it’s Kevin Drum. (Usually, Jim? There’s been, like, one presidential election campaign since political blogging exploded. And are you sure it was Kevin Drum? Did you look it up? You know what happened last time you got [...]

By Mona
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This is why only the politically blinkered think every vote or position comes down to $$. Sometimes it is just a sick interest in controlling people, even if some corporate interests are also benefited.

With money! Not an endorsement but – oh what the hell, come to think of it. Gather round, kids! I, Jim Henley, founding blogger of Unqualified Offerings, endorse Chris Dodd for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Oh yes I do! My favorite Dem has been Richardson, though Kucinich and Gravel [...]

Off behind an LJ Friendwall, someone takes the occasion of the fun I had playing Rock Band Special Edition on the Xbox 360 last weekend to get in a jibe at the Nintendo Wii, noting that Nintendo marketing implies that only the Wii, with its motion-sensitive and “intuitive” interface, can bring “non-standard” demographics to console [...]

Puppycide in Iraq!
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards — this time of the New York Times’s dog.
Staff at the newspaper’s Baghdad bureau said Blackwater bodyguards shot Hentish dead last week before a visit by a U.S. diplomat to the Times compound.
Blackwater spokeswoman Anne [...]

I know I said months ago that Hillary Clinton’s nomination was inevitable, but the more I think about it . . .
That John Edwards sure is a white man, huh?
Is it far-fetched to think that, when all is said and done, the most plausible-seeming white male candidate is going to get the nomination? Cause we [...]

The Littlest Offering completes a second-grade assignment:
Write 2 opinions about your book:
1. The Civil War was a cruel war.
2. I like rain tapping on the window.

Relax. It’s just links. A nice roundup of ambiguous rise of Africa readings.

By Mona

(As Lindh was taken into custody by the U.S., photo from Reuters.)
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American citizen John Walker Lindh is now serving 20 years in this heinous prison for what appears to have been the youthful insanity of fighting in favor of one side of a war in Afghanistan — well before that [...]