Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
I’ve been pretty harsh on Team Blue.  Meanwhile, I’ve made some recent posts that were ostensibly on libertarianism but were arguably diatribes against Red faux libertarians rather than examinations of problems in actual libertarianism.  (A criticism raised by Eric, among others.)  Given my ambiguous alignment (chaotic good, but I have a magical ring that [...]

By Thoreau
Everybody says that there are no seasons in Los Angeles, but the truth is that we have 4 seasons just like the rest of the country:  Tourist, fire, flood, and earthquake.  Everything is fine, but my campus is actually near the epicenter and it got a bit scary here on the 3rd floor.
My wife [...]

Perhaps marking this anniversary shall become an annual Unqualified Offerings tradition – until I forget, anyway. Today is not even the true anniversary of the day that Marie Prevost was found dead. For the Real Story Nick Lowe Doesn’t Want You to Know, see the "Fallen Star" page on Flapper Jane and Wikipedia. To hear [...]

Gareth Porter sets the Wayback Machine for 2006, when Nouri al-Maliki first began making noises about a timeline for withdrawal of US troops and George W. Bush bitch-slapped him for it.
That formula, linking a withdrawal timetable with the buildup of Iraqi forces, was consistent with the position taken by Sunni armed groups in their previous [...]