Unqualified Offerings

Schwenkler says my co-blogger has it all wrong.

By Thoreau
By “Freedom” I of course mean the exact opposite, because this is the era of Newspeak.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court alleges the workers were being taken to work at a U.S. air base in Iraq in 2004 when insurgents intercepted their caravan and killed them days later. A Nepali worker whose [...]

By Thoreau
Die Ministerium Fur Staatssicherheit announced some of the items found in a raid of a house where activists were staying:
At least five suspected leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee, a self-described anarchist group, were taken to the Hennepin County jail, and another was being sought, said Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher.
On Saturday afternoon, he [...]

By Thoreau
Rumors are now circulating that Sarah Palin’s infant daughter is actually her granddaughter by her eldest daughter, and that the true parentage of the baby was covered up to hide a shameful unwed pregnancy.  I’m here to set the record straight:
Michelle Obama had an affair with John McCain.  (This is the true source of [...]

By Thoreau
Greenwald has links to plenty of reports and videos from the Minneapolis raids. Apologists and useful idiots can say what they will about how the police act towards actual protesters in the streets and what behavior crosses what line, but pre-emptive arrests of journalists and activists are in a territory beyond even the [...]

Scott McConnell tries to see the bright side at @TAC. Ultimately, John McCain passed over neocon darling Joe Lieberman for the veep spot. For her part, Palin was a Pat Buchanan campaigner in 1996 and “perhaps in 2000 as well.” (Looks like she was with Buchanan through at least 1999.) From this McConnell dares to [...]

Pat Lang ponders the musical question, "What does [John McCain] think, that women are stupid?"
Maybe so. His first marriage broke up after his return from Vietnam.   This is often attributed to his inability to accept the change in his wife’s appearance.  Perhaps that was not the major cause.  The wife had been making a life [...]

John Schwenkler is liveblogging the Slow Food Nation convention in San Francisco this weekend for the new "conservative Slate," Culture 11. Unfortunately, Culture 11’s diary interface is ass, but his final post of the day includes links to his previous posts. I’m hoping he continues to post pointers from his home blog.

Crispin Sartwell has done a lot of gushing over a politician for an avowed anarchist today – not that I have room to talk any more – but I think he might be right on the electoral politics of the pick:
i think everybody underestimates how conservative american women are. certainly here in south-central pa, e.g. [...]

By Thoreau
I’m seeing a lot of commentary on how thin Sarah Palin’s resume is. Certainly it is thin, and certainly it is thinner than Obama’s (undercutting one of the sharpest potential arguments against Obama). Certainly she has negatives. But then I looked around at the rest of the field that McCain could [...]