Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Outrage fatigue has kept me from being my usual single-issue civil liberties extremist self and blogging about the Patriot Act renewal. However, I naturally assume that with anti-government Teabaggers ascendant in the GOP the House will quash this. Right? Um, right?

By Thoreau
Scientists have discovered a species of clam in which only the males pass on genes. And, even worse, they sometimes mate with other species.
Don’t let Tennessee find out, or they’ll ban biology teachers from discussing clams.

By Thoreau
IOZ is fed up with blogging.

I admire Jeffrey Goldberg for kidding himself about the politics of a future in which there is no two-state solution:
Either the Jews of Israel would grant the Palestinians the vote, at which point their country would lose its Jewish majority and its identity as a refuge for the Jewish people, or it would deny them [...]

The Rapture has been rescheduled for the 10th Anniversary of this’a here blog! Go us!

By Thoreau
I haven’t bothered to blog about some of the latest awfulness coming from Congress on the uncivil liberties front because, honestly, it’s predictable and depressing and just reinforces every anxiety in my mind.  So you can imagine my shock when I looked at the ACLU’s Blog of Rights and saw that the White House [...]

By Thoreau
I said a while ago that if Obama is judged by history to have done a good job, the power structure will ensure that he’s remembered as a white man.  If he does a bad job, white people will let black people take the blame for him.  Well, after killing Bin Laden, he’s busy [...]

By Thoreau
The cops are cracking down on Vietnamese coffee houses where men go to gamble and drink coffee served by scantily-clad waitresses. Say what you will about the harms of gambling, but when the cops go into a place that sells California lottery tickets and arrest the owner for all of the OTHER gambling going [...]

By Thoreau
To all the veal out there who would like a job:
1)  If your professor sends an email saying “I have been asked to recommend some good students for this job opportunity, please send me a resume ASAP so I can pass it on to my contact and put in a good word when I [...]

By Thoreau
I recently became aware that a person who is in my professional circle might be in trouble for some sort of misconduct.  He or she (I’ll stick to “he” for convenience in the rest of this) might be a current or past coworker, he might be a member of some professional group that I [...]