Unqualified Offerings

Unsurprisingly, Jesse Walker has the best Isaac Hayes memorial links, plus appreciative text. Excerpt:
Hayes’ hits for other people were tight, concise, and (just barely) restrained. Hayes’ hits for himself were long, lush, complex; along with George Clinton’s extraterrestrial funk excursions, they were the black equivalent of prog-rock. And if, like the progs, he sometimes went [...]

The New England Patriots may have bitten off more than they can chew when they chose to take on my scout troop’s pickup team.

Pejman Yousefzadeh, Strategery Correspondent, Redstate.org
Via Jus de Ballon (Au Jus de Ballon in American).

By Thoreau
1) If you are the least bit shocked to hear that a Senator and Presidential candidate cheated on his wife, then all I can say is that this is probably the first time you’ve ever read any political news.
2) The trend continues: Republican sex scandals involve same-sex and/or underage and/or paid [...]

By Thoreau
Greenwald has just done a take-down on one of the allegations against Ivins: That the timeline is consistent with Ivins leaving Ft. Detrick on a particular morning, driving to Princeton, mailing the anthrax from a mailbox in proximity to a storage locker for some sorority (apparently his sorority fixation figures prominently in the [...]

By Thoreau
The LA Times is shocked–shocked!–to discover that drug cartels purchase guns from sellers in the US and the proceed to whatever they want with those guns where ever they want to do it. They conclude that the best way to stop drug dealers from acquiring weapons and killing people is to enforce the [...]

By Thoreau
My Neutral thief (5th level) has a Chaotic Neutral sword +1 (+3 against regenerating creatures).  We figured out its alignment when the Lawful Good fighter tried to draw it and the sword screamed “Screw you, lawman!”  That’s when I realized that this must be a libertarian sword.  Some might wonder how a libertarian can [...]

Set browser spell-checkers to Off. Mister Matthew Yglesias’s new Think-Progress blog is open for business. Those of you reading Matt through RSS may find, as I did, that the newsfeed transition is seamless.

On AOTP, why Barack Obama really is better than John McCain from an anti-interventionist perspective – so much better that it matters. With help from South Ossetia and Daniel Larison.
Pointers to some cracks in Ron Suskind’s forged-letter story.
A post and comment thread on a couple recent and unsatisfying climate-change posts by Will Wilkinson.
On Tor.com, a [...]