Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
I have no idea if the suspect in custody for the murder of Dr. Tiller is in fact the guy who did it.  We’ll need to see more evidence before we can draw any conclusions on that.  However, let’s suppose that the cops are at least quite confident that he is the shooter, and [...]

By Thoreau
Downblog in the comments, there is a discussion over whether or not the killing of Dr. Tiller should be called “murder” or “terrorism.”  To the extent that we’re talking about names, well, I’m fine with calling different things by different names.  We’ll leave aside for now the extent demarcation of what is and isn’t [...]

By Thoreau
A conservative friend of mine said during the Bush years that he opposed Bush’s expansion of state powers in the name of fighting terrorism precisely because he knew that some day there would be a Democrat in the White House during an attack on an abortion clinic, and he doesn’t want the NSA listening [...]

By Mona
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[Addendum: I do not find anything particularly objectionable about O'Reilly's first clip Sully posts: interviewing a young woman who had "issues" after delivering her dead baby into a toilet following  Dr. Tiller's injection of saline solution into the amniotic sac to kill it is just a fact of how some late abortions [...]

By Thoreau
I used to not know the difference between good sushi and bad sushi.  Yeah, yeah, go ahead, wave your dicks in the air and scold me and tell me that you’re so much cooler than me, but I’ve been to Japanese restaurants running the gamut on price, from food courts to nice sit-down places, [...]

By Thoreau
Although I more or less defended Sotomayor’s remarks on ethnicity and perspective as having a perfectly reasonable interpretation, I do at least see how one might wonder if less innocuous interpretations are better reflections of her opinions.  Well, what really matters is how she actually rules from the bench, and whether those attitudes translate [...]

By Mona
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See Pete Guither’s DrugWarRant post, Illinois medical marijuana bill fast-tracked and call your state House legislator. The window, per Pete, is a day or two.

By Mona
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…and like me don’t give rat’s patooty about text-messaging (I in fact have had AT&T block it), and only want calls to go and come through without interruption to the extent AT&T’s towers allow, and a decent life expectancy for the phone, what would you recommend? I’ve been through three [...]

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The BBC writes about the politics of seal hunting in Canada and the European Union. BJ Bjornson of Newshoggers adds a personal perspective, and points out
The recent furor is over the European Union’s decision [...]

By Thoreau
Researchers have produced a transgenic monkey that glows.  Ooh, scary!  And the data in the paper comes from animal #666 (as numbered in their lab inventory).
If this evil monkey god wants to accompany me to the first committee meeting of the fall, he can feast on the dumbass who spent the whole meeting fighting [...]