Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
In the event that I should ever be a candidate for office in a professional society, let me state for the record that I don’t keep track of my many, many aunts. Some of them are wonderful people, others, well, every family has some people that they don’t talk about, you know? [...]

By Thoreau
I continue to lobby Mrs. Thoreau to let me buy a Prius in spring.  Reading on Prius battery lifetimes, this sounds a bit too good to be true:
And Toyota claims that not one has required a battery replacement due to malfunction or “wearing out.” The only replacement batteries sold–at the retail price of $3000–have [...]

After only a few days, Mrs. Offering came round to the virtues of the Kindle. But the Oprahlanche means they’re out of stock.

From the out of the mouths of babes file, while viewing Youtubes on Sully’s site.
The Littlest Offering, Age 8: What’s that about?
Me: It’s a commercial opposing Proposition 8 in California, which would make it illegal for gay people to get married.
TLO: But that’s an insult to Mary Gay and Vicki! (My stepsisters-in-law in Illinois.)
Me: Yes. [...]

Jonathan Schwarz and Glenn Greenwald ride a favorite UO hobby horse. Greenwald continues:
It certainly seems, by all appearances, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will win on Tuesday (though anything can happen, don’t assume anything, etc. etc.).  For reasons I’ve explained many times before, I consider that to be a good and important outcome (principally [...]