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Pinpoint Inaccuracy

Kevin’s theory is that some intentional killing of civilians simply gets reclassed as “collateral damage” because these days intentional killing of civilians is uncool. That seems a reasonable explanation of part of the phenomenon. For the rest, I ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  19 Nov 2009

You Can’t Spell Slaughter Without Laughter

Way way downblog I hypothesized that in daily life vegetarians and vegans are more sinned against than sinning when it comes to food evangelism. I have to change the way I think about Sarah Palin now because she’s determined to prove me right, and I ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  The Daily Beast

One Hour’s Stour

Wikipedia has the short, sad story of how Armistice Day – a holiday “dedicated to the cause of world peace” – became, as of 1954, a day honoring the military as such. I regret the change. The US already had Memorial Day for military members killed in ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wikipedia

Without Having Their Skulls Split, as a General Thing

Truth be told, from the practical standpoint of running an empire, violent outbursts by the likes of Major Hasan aren’t even grit in the gears. This is probably the most evil thing about his actions: he didn’t just murder people, which is a sin, he ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  10 Nov 2009

Right There, Right Then

It made us crazy-happy the way 9/11 made people crazy-scared. Some of us – me, for instance! – drew some odd lessons from the whole thing. Like, a coalition of mixed economies outlast a coalition of command economies in a geopolitical rivalry. ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Norman Vincent Peale

It’s So Easy

3 in six years. Out of how many millions of American Muslims, they’ve found a grand total of 3 who did this in 6 years? Wow. That’s one hell of a threat there! Three! We clearly need to turn a lot of lives upside down to deal with a problem that’s ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thor

50 Million Frenched Men Can’t Be Wrong

If you follow the “excoriated and harassed” link, you’ll find some very thinly sourced lists of stolen signs and vandalism, some of which is surely sort of true, some of which is probably even largely true. Hey, Loyal Readers, don’t steal people’s ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  4 Nov 2009

Ears!

Picture by Mrs. Offering. This is not the ultimate Zach ear-picture. Perhaps one day. Kate’s Flying-Nun ears are cute, but her only real ear-trick. Zach can make his touch above his head. When he does he looks sort of like Man-Bat. I’m not sure of the ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  28 Oct 2009

Pot Calling the Battle Back

The Obama administration does tangible good. I’d like to see full-blown legalization, but drug policy is an area where the Republicans have been an actively malign force this decade. It does call into question the whole “Only Nixon can go to China” ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

How Dare You Make Me Look as Stupid as I Am

The Daily Show often frames this as an inherent problem with a 24-hour news cycle. My take is, if you have time to fill, why not include a full-throated expression of doubt that it’s even physically possible for a boy to hide in that thing? Seriously, ...

From JIM HENLEY, Unqualified Offerings,  19 Oct 2009

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