Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Jennifer tries to proclaim “ich bin ein Republican” but can’t quite bring herself to tack on the last word. Fortunately, it will be a short-lived affiliation.
Jennifer, if you can’t say the last word in English, do it in German. Hint: The translation is, well, something associated with an ethos.
EDIT:  Links fixed.

Bonzo Goes to Rittberg just stunningly distorts the meaning of a Stephen Gordon entry on the Third Party Watch blog. Maybe he just failed to link the Gordon piece inadvertently, and not so most of his readers wouldn’t bother checking; and maybe he dropped the last sentence of the second quoted paragraph by mistake, and [...]

So I’m saving up my meager freelance writing income toward a laptop. (Mrs. Offering has one, but I don’t.) A month ago I was sure I wanted a Macbook. I could use Scrivener and MarsEdit and stuff like that. Then I got Office 2007 for Windows at work and, as Loyal Readers know, started to [...]

This week I resolved to use “actually” less. That turns out to be a lot of work. I killed about a half dozen of them in the last couple days posts alone.

When nobody was looking, Justin Slotman started posting to his internet-web “blog” again. His blog is ancient of days but, like Miles Monroe, has spent so much time in suspended animation it doesn’t look any older than today’s blogs. I mean, except for its design sense, which is very Fall 2001. But my point is, [...]

Arlen Specter embarrasses himself while accusing the NFL of trying to embarrass him. “Spygate” is not Congressional business. The best case you can make is that whatever Arlen Specter focuses on turns to shit, so it’s best if he distracts himself from the real Issues of the Day. But it’s just not fair to the [...]

Do you think if Jamison Foser wants to say the same thing three times in a single blog post he could at least use different words?
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Blitzer said, “I just want to be precise” — but he was the opposite of precise. Clinton and Obama had given precise answers; Blitzer then restated their positions in less [...]

On the salience of McCain’s sponsorship of “campaign-finance reform” as top-tier anathema, I direct you to the already-famous clip in which Ann Coulter declares that she will campaign for Hillary Clinton over John McCain if they win their nominations. When Sean Hannity leads into the interview, the very first item in his bill of particulars [...]

From the Onion: Giants Confident They Can Almost Beat Patriots.
Via 1/2-Way Dn Dnb.

For as long as I can remember, McCain has been anti-abortion, for fiscal conservatism and balanced budgets and against wasteful spending, and an avowed and committed hawk and ardent military supporter. By my count, that is, or at least used to be, the trinity for the modern GOP. Those were the issues that, at a [...]