Unqualified Offerings

Looking Sideways at Your World Since October 2001

Archive for May 31st, 2008

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

All of Journalism Is But Footnotes to 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.

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Title 9/11 mandates equal access to terrorist training camps

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:  [...]

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

The Hook of Judges

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.

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Spearing Ron Paul

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 [...]