Unqualified Offerings

It’s the old US-Israel story of a country whose own best interests are subverted by the unnatural control its supposed ally exerts on its decision-making. Tony Karon explains.
But Schiff also makes clear that, plainly, the Israelis had no idea what they’d signed up for, which is why, as Winograd concluded, they waded into battle without [...]

By Thoreau
Abu Laith al-Libi, the number 3 guy in Al Qaeda, met a fate similar to that of numerous other Al Qaeda number 3 guys and spontaneously combusted.  (It actually happens all the time, it’s just not widely reported.)

The corrupt and decadent Redskins organization may interview Steve Mariucci. Local radio blowhards were snarking about this a couple days ago: “Get used to losing!” one said. This is stupid. (Ref: Pro Football Reference.) Mariucci won 59% of his regular-season games during six seasons in San Francisco. He made the playoffs four times and advanced [...]

By Mona
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Was just given a gift of a fancy Motorola cell phone. On page four under the subject “Use and Care,” the User Guide says:
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Don’t try to dry your phone in a microwave oven; and
Don’t drop your phone.

If one needs to be advised of either of those points, one [...]

By Thoreau
Will wins the thread:
How do we know that the Bush Administration didn’t commit this act, very be simply, it was actually pulled off. If Bush & Co were behind this the Twin Towers would still be up & the whole operation would seriously behind schedule & tens of billions of dollars over budget.
Bravo!

By Mona
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Waterboarding, that is.
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And so legal sometimes, and not others.
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So sez our Attorney General, Michael B. Mukasey, in a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But he isn’t inclined to share with the Committee under what circumstances waterboarding is licit, and declines to provide any further [...]

By Thoreau
As a libertarian, I generally do support the right of consenting adults to do whatever they want without hurting others.  However, I would argue that serving as inspiration for the TSA’s inevitable Next Big Idea is a negative externality.  I therefore oppose this new concept in aviation.

By Thoreau
Friend of the blog Jennifer has ventured into the world of 9/11 Truthers and written a nice report on her travels. She observes (correctly) that it’s almost impossible for the educated layman to know what to believe. Hell, even I don’t know enough about the physics of melting steel to give an [...]

I’m pretty much in the tank for Office 2007, especially Excel and Outlook. The unfairly maligned Fluent interface is fantastic once you climb the learning curve. But, unless I’m missing it, the productivity programs still, all these years later, lack a “Save to Backup” feature. If I’m working on an article called “The Big Waste” [...]

La Rana, in comments Chez IOZ:
FISA is too antiquated to deal with modern technology, but that shit Locke said about foreign affairs, well that is like totally applicable to communication packets.