Unqualified Offerings

Forget Thanksgiving. Wednesday, Unqualified Offerings could no longer fight the urge to make chili again, incorporating ideas from some of the reader e-mails on the subject. (See here if you don’t remember, and scroll up for more.) UO’s goal was to use much less spice this time, allowing the ingredients to shine. So:

2# chuck, […]

to this site’s US readers! Today is an excellent day to make a start on what Unqualified Offerings likes to call “garbage soup,” a dish that UO guarantees is better than it sounds.

It’s actually not a soup recipe as such, just a way of making sure you can always have stock if you need […]

Quotable Talking Dog on another topic:

[T]he President named “Ten Most Evil Men of Twentieth CenturyTM” member Henry Kissinger as head of the commission to study the events surrounding the September 11th terror attacks. I have nothing to add. Which is ALSO what we can expect from this commission.

Contrary to what the folks at Giants and Dwarfs seem to argue, it is not necessarily antisemitic to speculate on what Israeli intelligence may have known in advance about the attacks on the World Trade Center. (One more time: Governments do creepy things sometimes; Intelligence agencies do creepy things sometimes; Israel has a government; Israel […]

Superb article by Jim of Objectionable Content on the so-called “No Fly zones” in northern and southern Iraq – what they are not (mandated by the UN), what they don’t do (protect Iraqi civilians) and what they do do (“What’s the opposite of a peace process?” Jim asks). Jim documents that the US and Britain […]