Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
First China got an Iraqi oil contract before us, even though we were the ones going there and killing lots of people for no good reason.  Now they’ve managed to get a natural gas pipeline in Central Asia even though we’re busy in Afghanistan killing lots of people for no good reason.
I’m not here [...]

Following up on the Young Perfesser’s post below, it’s certainly callous to bomb a crowded city in hopes of killing a handful of putative bad guys, knowing it will also mean the deaths of some number of innocents. But it’s a measure of our degradation (in elite discourse at the very least) that we don’t [...]

1. Steelers don’t look like a playoff team this year. Hope never dies, but I’m likely to need rooting interests for January that do not come clad in black and gold. We turn to hate: if either the Colts or Saints reach the playoffs undefeated I’ll pull for them to beat my archnemesis, the vile [...]