Unqualified Offerings

I’m really enjoying Alyssa Rosenberg’s culture-blogging at ThinkProgress, though I didn’t make it to her Cavalcade of Nerds downtown this evening. (It’s hard for me to get downtown during the week.) I don’t read every item – she writes too damn much, like all professional bloggers, and I don’t care about everything she does – [...]

By Thoreau
Will Wilkinson is discussing whether a President Gore would have been politically helped or hurt by 9/11. I have to disagree with Will and say that President Gore would have been hurt.  Although I will be the first to say that Team Blue’s leaders are pretty hawkish for the most part, politics is about [...]

By Thoreau
This article asks the question “Why is it so hard to find a suicide bomber these days?”  The answers that they give (in short, most Muslims don’t want to engage in terrorism, and even the fringe that admires terrorism doesn’t actually want to strap the bombs on themselves) are all good and accurate.  Still, [...]

By Thoreau
I used to think that it was the #3 guy in Al Qaeda whom they were killing.  Now it becomes apparent that it’s Zawahri’s subordinate that they’re killing, because they recently got the #2 guy.  So, if you know how to play the drums, Spinal Tap would like to hear from you.

By Thoreau
According to Salon.com today, Team Blue totally would have invaded Iraq if the chads had swung their way, and Team Blue Druid is a bunch of fascists.  So, I suck and so do you.
EDIT:  Links fixed

I only ever attend church or synagogue these days for family-related reasons, so consider the following speculations tentative. I’d love the perspective of active churchgoers like Thoreau, Gene Callahan and Lee M on where they think the following is on-point or off-base, and what I’m missing. I’d also love to hear from Jewish or Muslim [...]

By Thoreau
I think this is all that needs to be said.

By Thoreau
Here’s all the evidence you need in favor of the post title.

Last week National Review’s David French created the sort of outrage web outlets kill for by blaming poverty on “the deprativity of the poor” – the sort of outrage that produces a bevy of clickable links and counter-links. French’s pieces are a mess, but not necessarily a worse mess than the ASA press release he [...]

By Thoreau
I just want to observe that the increasing availability of flu shots at retail pharmacies is a good thing, and I hope we see greater increases in the availability of simple medical services from pharmacists and people who aren’t MD’s.  Anything that expands the range of skilled and trained service providers who can provide [...]