Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
After all the tribulations suffered by Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda, surely somebody could have been humane enough to not settle them in New Jersey.  But, well, it worked out:  They got to meet Metallica.
We still have a moral obligation to take in a lot more than just a measly 13,000 Iraqi refugees, but [...]

By Thoreau
Moniker chosen mostly because I needed some sort of animal that, unlike the veal calf, is tough, intelligent, self-sufficient, and able to thrive in a variety of environments.
It isn’t all doom and gloom here in the West Coast affiliate of UO. In my honors class, my students have refused to tell me that [...]

By Thoreau
Republican Congressman Pete Sessions said yesterday that the Republican Party needs to mount an insurgency like the Taliban.  I cannot believe that the Congressman would dare to compare his honorable party to the Taliban.  The Taliban are a bunch of militant religious zealots.  Their base of support is largely rural, uneducated, and deeply religious.  [...]