Unqualified Offerings

It’s the - whoah - fifth annual awards post. Previous installments: 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.
Least Dispensible Weblog - The Agitator
Hawk of the Year - Ramsey Clark, in his way
Dove of the Year, Domestic - John Murtha
Dove of the Year, International - Ariel Fucking Sharon???????
Turning Japanese Award for the Best Case of the Vapors - […]

Soon we will leave Santee Island and the iffy wifi connection that allowed last night’s blogging behind us for the last leg of our journey home. A car journey down I-95 through the American southeast is a priceless opportunity to see a wide variety of this country’s many kinds of swampland, from the blackwater thickets […]

The Independent Women’s Forum has never had much use for feminists. But now they’re turning anti-male on us - anti-human male anyway:
It’s Kong, furthermore not the wimpy humans in the movie (epitomized by the fey Adrien Brody playing sensitive-writer Jack Driscoll and supposedly Watts’s love interest), who saves his lady from being eaten by dinosaurs. […]

One dire prewar prediction of mine has yet to bear out, the “War of the Kurdish Suppression.” As Logan points out, the Kurds have done quite well for themselves so far and expect to continue doing so:
The [Kurdish] soldiers said that while they wore Iraqi army uniforms they still considered themselves members of the Peshmerga […]

No commenting drunk. Unless you’re a happy drunk.

If you put a frog in a pan of water and turn the heat up very gradually, he has over 200 words for snow.

Hesiod tips me to an interesting Seattle Post-Intelligencer Report regarding FISA, the Bush Administration and domestic spying. The paper went over Justice Department reports to Congress and found that the special FISA Court acted uncannily like an independent oversight body - its statutory role - toward Bush Administration wiretap requests, rejecting or modifying (mostly the […]

Welch:
But I would suggest that a fella can believe with perfect sincerity — even without succumbing to libertarian panic — that liberty and security are complementary, not mutually exclusive. The proverbial “challenge in the coming debate,” or at least one of them, is to re-insert that idea back on the table when the Wise Men […]

So you know!
Long car trip + Stomach flu raging through entire family = Yuck!
Could not even eat at Jack’s Wood_Cooked BBQ off Exit 14 in Georgia (I-95), and Jack’s is the best reason to drive to Florida outside of the hassle of airports.
Didn’t get to watch or listen to the Redskins game. I did see […]

RGB Bill and I are looking to play Dogs in the Vineyard at my house in Maryland or his house in DC on January 2 and we have openings for two players. This will be a one-shot so there’s no continuing obligation. I have an invite out but some people are too busy guest-blogging on […]

Every few months there’s talk about how the US will start withdrawing troops Real Soon Now, followed by articles about how maybe we won’t. The interest the establishment media shows toward these episodes baffles me. The government has hundreds of officials giving briefings pretty constantly, don’t they? They can’t all end up on the front […]

Packing tonight for our drive to sunny (better be!) Florida for Christmas week. We’ll be shuttling between Avon Park and Sarasota, a town I’m sneakily fond of. Of course, it may have gone to hell in the five years since I was last there, who knows?
I should still be blogging - the McDonalds in Avon […]