Unqualified Offerings

Well, except for Charles Dodgson, who has noticed that the war in Afghanistan and, increasingly, Pakistan, refuses to be finished already.
Meanwhile Bruce Baugh has been asking himself a couple of hard questions about Iraq.

Istanblog says the real pre-9/11 mistakes continue to this day:

Why is the Bush administration so fixated on these three countries? Granted, these are not warm and cuddly places. But none has directly attacked the US - sure, we’ve tangled with them in neighboring countries, the Iranians did nasty stuff to Americans in their country during […]

It’s this site’s gaming night, so posting today will be light to nonexistent. Fortunately, there is an embarrassment of reading riches over at Eve-Tushnet.com. Eve has a couple of thoughtful items taking off from Virginia Postrel’s recent article on name fashions. She offers a thorough demolition of Wendell Berry, who deserves it for, if nothing […]

Actually, I’m kidding about that part. Most of you are on vacation! What’s a week at the beach compared to reading “US News and Mary Jane” as soon as it comes out, huh?
Don’t answer that.
Anyway, Unqualified Offerings has not been posting sparsely since the holiday because it was off having fun. No, Unqualified Offerings was […]

Okay, so as soon as you add in a second quote you’re back to a ransom-note effect in NS4. Somehow it’s losing the DIV style info and falling back to the default para style. Since the P tag goes undefined so far in the site’s CSS, that means we’re in readably-ugly land. Also, it took […]

This next message is for testing autogenerated code with multiple text blocks:

First and most importantly: Thank you.
Second and less importantly: I think the NS4 version is fine and there’s no reason to go to a separate style sheet. It doesn’t sound like stripping all the styles out solves the nested tags “problem” anyway.
Third: On the […]

Also what it says.

but it’s getting damned close, thanks to hard work by philanthropists to be revealed shortly.
What you should be seeing is:

A white page background.
A brighter title color than the blogger-created page.
Two light green columns - a left column with link info etc. and a right column with the actual blog entries.
For the time being, link and […]

Like it says

In which two threads become one.
Today I made the connection between the US News story about teen sex and - Mary Jane Watson, love of Peter Parker’s life. (For the purpose of this item, we are sticking to the continuity of the Spiderman movie, not the comics.)
My thesis is that the now-famous girls in the […]