Unqualified Offerings

Someone’s got to toot this old horn of mine, so I note that I totally pwned real life when it comes to the story about AQ’s woman problem Thoreau linked downblog.

By Thoreau
Women are challenging rampant sexism in Al Qaeda, demanding to be recognized as co-equal jihadists.  Actually, this kind of scares me:  Young women are often a bit more organized and responsible than young men (although exceptions are abundant).  Do we really need more organized terrorists?
Fortunately, though, there’s an infamous glass ceiling in Al Qaeda:  [...]

I resent the way the Defense Department encourages people to rehearse that tired old Red Queen of Hearts declaration from Alice. There were already 207,000 Google results for the phrase.
Via Unfogged.

This fellow can’t spell "candidate," but by being willing to come out and say that Ron Paul Lost, he’s closer to wisdom than the entire staff of Takimag. The full measure of Paul’s failure isn’t even that he’s not going to be the Republican nominee. It’s that, even since everyone else dropped out of the [...]

Well, that was awful. Perhaps the worst episode of the series. I don’t want to dwell on all its faults, but the lack of a genuine continuity cop on what is, at bottom, a serial hurts. Suddenly we appear to have successful Cylon-Cylon reproduction when the inability of Cylons to intrabreed has been a major [...]

Awesome.

By Thoreau
Beetles with photonic crystal structures in their scales are nothing new.  But beetles with diamond lattice structure in their scales?  Damn!

By Thoreau
Desmond has sailed the world, braved magic and danger, escaped the clutches of his enemies, and found his Penelope.  Desmond’s odyssey is over, and I salute him.
That was a good finale, aside from the 500 commercials.  They left me wondering “What the hell can they do now?”  They actually cleared up a few things.  [...]

Anarchy, State and our fallen world, by me, over there.

Barack Obama’s great-uncle . . . was a Muslim.