Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
David Weigel fails to understand the importance of swing blocs in key states:
The reason Republicans, until their recent meltdown, were trying to make gains with suburban, exurban, and Hispanic voters, is that those voters numbers’ are growing, and the numbers of white, James Agee-worthy whites are, proportionately, decreasing. It’s a weird exercise, making a [...]

Eisenhower clobbers the GWOT-era "military analysts" FROM THE GRAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Via Antiwar.com.

Thoreau is awesome.
That is all.

Your weekend-o-me (an others) Over There:

“Wussy Like a Fox?” I consider Barack Obama’s “failure” to “hit back” at Hillary Clinton. Mind you, Clinton’s partisans believe Obama has been positively awful to their candidate. But they’re going to have to write their own arguments.
Al Gore Engaged in Not Starving the World. Honestly, just a pass-through to [...]

Fighting global warming in Iraq.
Via Sullivan.

By Thoreau
It has been said that any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic.  Well, scientists are now developing a way to summon lightning bolts with lasers.  I SO TOTALLY WANTS ME ONE OF THESE!
To all my enemies:  Fear scientific progress.  Fear it greatly.  And get yourself a Cloak of Protection +3 or better [...]

By Mona
Or may as well be. Disclosure: I am tepidly favoring Obama, and honestly expect him to get the nomination; but this sort of Democrats-eating-their-own swill can only help the GOP even if it is Hillary. For — to my shock as a critic of 60s radicals –Tom Hayden is spot [...]

By Thoreau
A student who’s been in my class for 3 quarters now just sent me a rough draft of a lab report for critique, and he’s gone from classic ESL difficulties and standard freshman nonsense (”the error was the result of experimental error”) to clear English and insightful statements on the limitations of the apparatus.
This [...]

Some skeptical photo analysis of the recent “Syrian nuke facility” exhibit is happening at Moon of Alabama and Whirled View.

b at Moon of Alabama
Cheryl Rofer of Whirled View on the overhead photos, the “reactor photos” and the destruction sequence.

I’m not seeing the pixelation problems with the “Nuke-Guy Team-Up” photo that b sees, but the general [...]

By Thoreau
This morning, the LA Times ran a pretty good editorial on Ecuador, arguing that we should be respectful of other sovereign countries (a concept that America is still struggling with).  I’m reluctant to take them to task for some small point in the midst of it, but I did find this interesting:
Although losing the [...]