Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
So, hearing that Palin is riling up the far right at rallies, I realize that if Obama wins he will almost certainly face death threats from nuts obsessed with his middle name and all that. Not to mention that we’ll probably see a resurgence of far-right anti-government sentiments, something that we’ve seen precious [...]

By Thoreau
Khaled Hosseini, author of Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, is (quite rightly!) pissed that people would judge Obama for having the middle name “Hussein”, which presumably derives from the same roots as Hosseini’s own last name. Moreover, he’s pissed at how McCain and Palin are handling this:
The real affront is the [...]

By Thoreau
I just saw a dumb anti-drug commercial with a mother walking into the bathroom, pulling back the shower curtain, and asking her naked and humiliated son what he knows about pot. It occurred to me that if drugs were legal we wouldn’t have to put up with these ads. Instead, we’d get [...]

Gene Healy finds the origin of the Unitary Executive in a 1933 movie:

 
Andrew Sullivan finds a chilling look at an all too possible future, in which American soldiers get to come home from misbegotten foreign wars to delighted dogs:

 
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