Unqualified Offerings

Looking Sideways at Your World Since October 2001

Archive for March 3rd, 2010

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

They Are Ruthless, But Politely So

At Obsidian Wings and undoubtedly several other places, Eric Martin discusses the Obama Administration’s squalid effort to expand antiterrorism laws to cover such atrocities as “filing a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of a terrorist group. Helping such a group petition international bodies is also a crime, [Solicitor General Elena Kagan] added.”

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

All ur memes are belong to me

By Thoreau
While talking to somebody about my efforts to escape from Budgetocalypse, I referred to the California Higher Education Fiasco, and realized that I have a new acronym:  CHEF.
From watching food TV shows it appears that standard restaurant practice is to say “Yes, chef!”  Well, that is now my response to every memo that comes [...]