Unqualified Offerings

Debate Blogging because I want to fit in. Actual dialog from early in the evening:
Me: How can you take these imbeciles seriously?
Mrs. Offering: It’s hard.
A confession: I don’t watch much TV, except for sports. I never watch TV news. I skip most States of the Union and missed all but a minute or two of […]

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative - Artist Sylvia Nickerson’s “Flower Knives” from the New Quarterly. Link via Nobilist.

Pong Fu - Pretty amusing. Link is a video.

Thick as a Brick - Matt Hogan tips me to an interesting article on cement and concrete shortages. Hey come on! This stuff matters:
It’s a serious and costly problem for construction firms, which depend on cement to build everything from home foundations to highways to swimming pools. Because contracts are typically signed months in advance, […]

At Least the NAME Doesn’t Stink - According to a survey by the University of Pennsylvania’s National Annenberg Election Survey conducted over the last year, only 9% of American Indians find the name of the Washington Redskins “offensive,” reports AP. I’m not surprised. I recall a survey from a couple of years ago showed the […]

This Time It’s Personal - Gene Healy on NPR’s strange concept of “gun safety.”

Yogablogging! - Well, why the hell not? Alan Little has quite a lot of it. I’ve been thinking about yoga as an adjunct to running lately, and figure I could take it safely, being a man. (Women who get to be my age and start yoga for the first time seem inevitably to divorce within […]

Let’s Not Get Too Excited - Mrs. Offering forwards me Thomas Oliphant’s column in the Boston Globe suggesting that Libertarian Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik (whose name he can’t spell) may end up costing George Bush the state of Nevada and its five electoral votes. As a libertarian who plans to vote Libertarian for the third […]

The Long Twilight Struggle Continues between the CIA and the White House. I wonder if Porter Goss will unilaterally disarm. Bureaucratic capture being what it is, I wouldn’t count on it. What’s interesting is that Novak says the analysts who warned ahead of time that Iraq would likely turn out . . . like it’s […]

Such a Shame How These Things Work Out - Jeff Taylor notes the unfortunate pattern in Pakistan:
Wanted al Qaeda insider Amjad Farooqi is dead, killed in a shoot-out with Pakistani security forces just as President General Pervez Musharraf visits the United States. Great timing, that. Trouble is Farooqi was rumored to be in custody months […]

I Got Rhythm - Via Costello-L, here’a cool site where you can hear just about any kind of percussion instrument you care to name. Actually, the site, Virtual Orchestra, will play almost any symphonic instrument for you.
Just don’t let the Wolf catch Peter!

Ouch - Suffering through the Redskins game tonight. Tomorrow, a special “How Wrong You Are About Rwanda, Jim” mailbag.

as they say. This strikes me as a natural progression from taking in guest bloggers. (Seriously, as another dog person, I’m nothing but delighted.)
I met ex-Obernews guest blogger Adrienne Aldredge. It went like this:
Me: Adrienne Aldredge! Jim Henley.
Adrienne: Oh hi!
(Pause.)
Adrienne: How old are you?
Kids these days.
I should state right out that she had an excuse. […]

That About Sums It Up - Chad Orzel speaks dog, and has translated a new History of the Past Couple of Years.

Bastards! BASTARDS! - So after all the fitness blogging last year and all the running this year, I get my blood tests back, and I’ve dropped my LDL cholesterol from 152 to 96 in a year and a half - and Science goes and drops the recommended ceiling from 99 to 70. Those rotten sons […]