Unqualified Offerings

I have seen NFL future, and its name is David Garrard.
Seriously, the guy is much better than a quarterback on a team that I have at least mild antipathy for should be.

Pats go for it on 4th and 4, close to midfield, in the first quarter. Make it. Somewhere, Carroll, Palmer and Thorn are smiling.
And just before halftime, the Patriots take the “safe” field goal on 4th and 6. Result: miss!

In my 20s I read some of those adult children of alcoholics books, for the usual reasons. One of the core concepts was “Guessing at Normal.” Children raised in alcoholic households lack first-hand experience in any number of standard social rituals and passage rights – in our family’s case, for example, we never entertained when [...]

I’m just saying.

Meghan Daum speculates on specifically gendered reasons for resistance to Hillary Clinton as president. I don’t want to say there’s nothing to that. One of Daum’s passages indicates that the gendering can come on a “meta” level, e.g. I think of myself as a liberal and I don’t like the female candidate so I feel [...]

Jim Lobe speculates that the puffed up speedboat incident in the Straits of Hormuz doesn’t represent an attempt to start a war but to stop one – less dramatically, to reduce the potential for one.