Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
The grant proposal is done.  It has been sent to our Office of Research and Sponsored Programs for the final approvals to be stamped on it, and some time tomorrow I’ll be submitting.  Hallelujah.
But there is no sleep for me.  Not yet.  Tomorrow I have to get up early for special office hours, then […]

I’ll be on the road for a few days attending a funeral and substantially incommunicado blogishly. So, a couple of links!
* Peter Gabriel mashups, via Ginger’s LJ
* Australian Icebergs, thanks to Kate Nepveu
* Mrs. Offering on her father’s final days

By Thoreau
Or at least make damn sure you don’t hand over any money for it.
I just saw Doug Feith on the Daily Show, pimping his account of how he perpetrated the lies that started a bloody war.  Jon Stewart did an interview that was about as tough as a guy like Feith will agree to.  […]

Phil Carter doesn’t seem to realize where his two-step critique of General Ricardo "Feikorpsfan" Sanchez goes wrong, or maybe he’s just not clear about it. To counter Sanchez’s dolschtosslegende of the Vietnam War, Carter argues
No amount of America firepower could have crushed the North Vietnamese people’s will. It’s true that we made many missteps in […]

By Thoreau
In regard to her comments about “hard working Americans, white Americans,” let me just say that Hillary’s speechwriter is a real wizard.
Thank you, I’m here all week.  Don’t forget to try the waitress and tip the fish!

By Thoreau
TIME Magazine proves that it’s possible to be even dumber than Bill Kristol. Yes, the humanitarian crisis there is awful. Yes, the regime is awful. Yes, it differs from Iraq and Vietnam in certain respects. Nonetheless, the only way to seriously contemplate invading Myanmar/Burma is if you are dumb enough […]

Libertarians probably shouldn’t try to handicap political races. If we had any electoral instincts we wouldn’t have gotten ourselves in this position. Nevertheless, I argue that Obama’s comparative weakness with white voters versus Clinton’s comparative weakness with black voters makes Obama the stronger general-election candidate. No, really!
Note: No post-structural theorists were harmed in the creation […]

Jonathan Schwarz explains the rules for visiting America, which is another word for the Planet Earth.

Cernig is all, "Sadr FTW!"
But far more important for him is that he now [following an Iranian-brokered ceasefire] keeps his political hopes alive, with elections where his movement can expect to make considerable inroads against his ISCI rivals looming. That was always the prize, and he has taken it.

Now see, I don’t know about that. […]

By Thoreau
I decided to give my freshmen a taste of real physics.  I offered extra credit to anybody who could give me a useful critique of my grant proposal.  Amazingly enough, two of my students actually rose to the occasion.  Although they couldn’t really dissect the science, they could tell that I wasn’t really explaining […]