Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
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In the course of addressing a separate set of issues at AoTP, I discuss taking my grandsons to the movies, which I do with some frequency. The problem for which I seek a solution if anyone has a suggestion(s), is that the younger of the two (he is about to turn [...]

By Thoreau
Warranty tech support people should totally gamble. Yes, you heard me, warranty tech support people. This isn’t about any sort of vendetta against them, this is simply an observation that they have the most amazing luck:
Say you have a laptop with something that is very, very obviously a hardware problem (it occurs [...]

Speaking of stories with ridiculous plot holes, the case of Aafia Siddiqui suggests that the US government has been secretly taken over by the Brotherhood of Dada. Cab Drollery discusses how bizarrely underreported the story of her arrest has been, given the sensational aspects of the government’s case. (Via Eschaton.) The New York Times story [...]

Jim MacDonald casts a cold eye on Air Force One, the Harrison Ford vehicle from 1997, focusing mainly on its plotting liberties. He reminds me that

Air Force One is the pluperfect power fantasy of humanitarian interventionism;
In the real world, the head hijacker becomes President of Russia.

AF1 was just an evil, evil movie. You can’t blame [...]

I never get invited to guest-blog for Andrew Sullivan, but I’ve been saying the Iraqi elections were going to be rigged for months now. The Basra and Sadr City operations were about getting control of polling places. That’s probably substantially true of the Diyala efforts too.
Iraqi politics consists of gaining control of ministries and using [...]