Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Pigs are sprouting wings.  Snopes investigators are agreeing to pay $250 for cookie recipes. Real estate on Megiddo is being bought up by Blackwater.  It’s so bad that Dick Cheney is even buying a snowblower.
What is causing this end of the world hysteria?  My friends, Olbermann is reporting, and various news sources are confirming, [...]

By Mona
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Glenn Greenwald’s latest book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics, release date 4/15, is available now for pre-ordering at Amazon:

Disclosure: I played a very minor substantive role in this work, but a larger one as copy-editor. (But no, I have no financial stake in the book’s success.) [...]

By Thoreau
Scientific American has a new article up claiming that it’s better to turn off your compact fluorescent lights rather than keep them running, because (1) the start-up power is exaggerated and (2) even if wear and tear leads to more frequent bulb purchases the electricity savings is still worth it.  They may be right, [...]

The Best Blog returns. At least for a day.
Thanks to Iron Lungfish in comments downblog.

Things may be quiet here this week as I’ll be guestblogging at Instapundit and Thoreau will be filling in for Megan McArdle while those proprietors are on vacation. I’ll try to post the occasional link to what I’m writing over there. And maybe Mona will have something.

By Thoreau
And Jon Henke is the reason.

By Thoreau
So, let’s recap: When violence drops to levels seen a few years ago (i.e. it goes from suck to blow), that means the surge is working. OTOH, when violence flares up between the Iraqi government and a rival gang, one that they later reach a truce with, that is also a sign [...]