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, [...]