Unqualified Offerings

Eschaton has a new URL. Google Reader can’t find a feed.
Via Womzilla.

I throw another wet blanket over The Art of the Possible. Today’s post responds to responses to yesterday’s post. You’ll believe a man can grudgingly respect the Welfare State – AND the Republican Party.

Mona, Armed Lib isn’t saying anything that hasn’t been obvious for a long time. The hawkish bloggers have, since the dawn of Teh Blogosphere, believed that they aren’t just commenting on "the War on Terror," they’re fighting it. Because they’ve bought the notion that there is an overarching WoT in the first place, and that [...]

By Mona
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My post on that is up at AoTP (where our Jim has also graciously agreed to do some contributing — tho only limited since he has his own great gig going here), and of course concerns well-known recent events in TX.

I’m a fierce critic of 24’s pro-torture ethos, but I’ll stand up for Joel Surnow against Sully’s charge that Surnow “has blood on his waterboard.” I don’t think America’s goons in the military and intelligence bureaucracy torture because they esteem 24. I think they esteem 24 because they torture. People put art to congenial uses. [...]

By Mona
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I had not realized that the insurgents had been pummeling us in an “information war” (and thus in the war on terror/Iraq) in our establishment media, thus requiring Bush and the Pentagon to brief retired military and send them out with misleading and false talking points to sell to the [...]

And the youngest Gentile child asks, "How come tonight is pretty much like all the other nights?"

Robert Pinsky’s poetry FAQ in Slate is actually pretty good. Anything that quotes Robert Hayden’s "Those Winter Sundays" has a head start, mind you, but I like it all.
Via Sully.

By Thoreau
You have to just love the TSA blog. In response to some passenger complaining about a medical device undergoing so much scrutiny at the airport, a TSA screener writes (scroll down to the 12:01 pm comment by “hsvtso dean”):
Presumably, and this is just me crunching my brain gears together in the knowing-what-is-possible route [...]

By Thoreau
I decided to check out the TSA’s blog. First, let’s just take a moment to reflect on the fact that in today’s America even the most mentally deficient person can find a way to start a blog. It’s either a proud statement of opportunity for all or the best argument ever made [...]