Unqualified Offerings

How about a massive catastrophe that’s far enough away to just be pretty? Or to have been pretty, I suppose. And as Meguey says (see link below):
But still, no bad wishes, most-likely dead theoretical space people!

Via Lumpley.

Daniel Larison’s post, “This Is Winning?,” is entirely reasonable given that I didn’t completely explain what I meant by “This is Israel winning” last night. It also came up in comments. So, what am I claiming that Israel is “winning?” The war that began in 1947 for control of the entire territory west of the [...]

By Thoreau
The Number Three guy in Al Qaeda is dead. Again.  The memorial service will feature music by Spinal Tap, but no percussion (they’re busy finding a new drummer).
I am overjoyed to hear about this, because the man was pure evil.  His soul was so black that if you looked into it and asked how [...]

Dave Anderson fleshes out the argument that, whatever might come out of Israel’s attack on the Free Gaza Flotilla, it’s not going to be a full-scale war between Israel and Turkey. People really need to think more about logistics and politics.
He also includes a list of measures short of war that Turkey can meaningfully take. [...]

By Thoreau
In that boring zone where the Star Wars game was finished but the grilled meat was not yet done, we got to talking about entertainment, pop culture, politics, etc.  I said something about 24, at which point a friend said that the military hates 24 because they are against torture.  Now, I realize that [...]