Unqualified Offerings

Chocolate milk makes a great post-exercise recovery drink per a couple of studies. Drinking it immediately between, oh, running and biking, however, I do not recommend.
Going to lie down now.

Greg Tinti, official groundlings correspondent of Outside the Beltway, seems dumbfounded that people whose politics lead them to oppose the President of the United States would prefer the Opposition Party select a senate candidate who . . . opposes the President of the United States. More than nominally. The GOP has controlled all three branches […]

We have facts and figures!
According to Michael Butcher’s article in The Scotsman, Landis’ A-sample T/E ratio was 11:1. That’s a bit more than the 4:1 limit. I don’t know if it’s astonishingly high for failed T/E tests or not.
Meanwhile, Velonews quotes a Spanish cyclist who has written extensively about doping in the sport as saying […]

Well now. Viewers won’t have Steve to kick around any more, though some characters apparently will.
At first blush the dying dialogue, filched from Lear, between Jack Langrishe and Chesterton might seem too pat - ooh, actors quoting Shakespeare to each other in a death scene! - but I think a nice irony saves it. After […]

There is, already, a Free Floyd Landis blog.
I am, if there was the merest doubt, rooting for Floyd to get exonerated. If he does, I think I’ll try to go to the parade. That’s my official disclosure statement.

Via Yglesias, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ official list of “Hizbullah attacks along Israel’s northern border May 2000 - June 2006.” Two things the list confirms:
1. Prior to this month, there haven’t been that many incidents: one in May 2006, five in 2005, 3 and 4 in 2004 and 2003 respectively.
2. Almost without exception, […]

The other day, Chris Roach, in comments here, tried to pour balm upon the waters:
Supporters of the war, who have changed their mind, are often castigated for their earlier positions taken under different facts, as if changing one’s mind or adjusting one’s view is the worst of sins. And war critics are wrongly labeled as […]

Tim F. at Balloon Juice puts together an excellent brief on George W. Bush’s oedipal determination not to be his father, with disastrous results in Iraq and elsewhere.

Surprisingly educational reporting from Lindsey Hamilton of the Associated Press. Excerpt:
Testosterone creams, pills and injections can build muscle and strength and improve recovery time after exertion when used over a period of several weeks, according to Dr. Gary Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency and a spokesman for the American College of Sports […]

Trial set for the Seas of David Seven. We also find out how much the informants got out of the deal.
Prosecution court documents disclosed the payments to the two informants, one of whom posed as an al-Qaida operative. That informant, known as confidential witness 2 or “CW2″ in court papers, was given legal U.S. immigration […]

Ralph Peters goes “Back to Baghdad.” It would be comedy gold but for some very ugly undercurrents. Briefly, the agenda of the column is
a) To continue to pretend Peters wasn’t full of shit when he wrote his absurd March column, “Dude, Where’s My Civil War?”
WHEN I visited Baghdad in March, there was no civil war. […]

Experts: Possible Explanations for Landis’ Testosterone Levels
In brief:
1. Test is prone to false positives.
2. “[A] spike in testosterone can also result from certain circumstances occuring either before or after winning games . . . ”
3. Landis’ hip condition may cause his body to release extra testosterone in an attempt to speed recovery.
Updates pending. We’ll get […]

Is it true that most of Iraq is calm except for Baghdad and two or three other provinces, is it more like, as Eric Martin glossed swopa in comments here yesterday, “a fire engulfing a house, with an overwhelmed man racing from one end to the other wondering where to pour his lone bucket of […]