In case anyone is wondering why I’m not yammering away about l’affaire Plame, I have nothing to add to what CalPundit, Billmon, Josh Marshall and Open Source Politics (see particularly here for many many links, including one to the author’s own blog) have been saying. There are lots of others on the other side of …
The very idea of a 1 p.m. Game 1 offends George Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ principal owner. “I’m not happy,” Steinbrenner said in a statement. “It eliminates a lot of people who are forced to work at that time. The Yankees are the biggest draw in baseball, and tied for the very best record. Who else …
Today I headed out to the dentist for a routine cleaning to be done by the charming Yolanda, whose bark is thankfully much worse than her bite. (I do sometimes wonder if one of the character traits required for dental hygienists and their bosses is mild sadism, but anyway…). I missed the freeway exit. I …
If you look over there on the sidebar, you’ll see a button which reads International Lyrics Playground. A couple of years ago some friends and I decided to put together the site, hoping to provide a resource for lyrics from the era in which most of us had grown up. It’s been remarkably successful, currently …
R.I.P. George Plimpton. From his website: “There are people who would perhaps call me a dilettante, because it looks as though I’m having too much fun. I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.” He did a lot of things, but the one I’ll remember best is his April Fool’s Day …
Who’s gonna help rebuild Iraq? Why, New Bridge Strategies, of course. Who might they be, you ask? Well-connected folks like Joe Allbaugh (FEMA, Bush 2), Ed Rogers (Dep. Ass’t. to Bush 1), Richard Burt (Amb. to Germany, Reagan), and Lanny Griffith (Ass’t. Sec’y Education, Bush 1). What’s the goal? New Bridge Strategies, LLC is a …
Today I was picking up a prescription at my local Kaiser clinic; they had Fox News on the tube, and it was 6:00pm EST. The promo for Special Report with Brit Hume was on. Hume was telling the audience about the upcoming discussion he expected to have regarding the questions Senators have about the Administration’s …
Normally I don’t bother linking the NYT editorials (columns, yes; editorials, no), but today they got my attention. On Mr. Bush’s admission during his interview on Fox the other night: But it is worrisome when one of the most incurious men ever to occupy the White House takes pains to insist that he gets his …
A few days ago I had two 3GB hard drives, each with about 1GB available. Suddenly yesterday afternoon I got an error message that told me the C drive was full. Off into defrag land I went, having to disable any and all programs (like SETI) which try to write to disk. After much time, …
Ashcroft thinks federal judges are too lenient, so he’s demanding they sentence as harshly as possible, limiting plea bargains. I get the feeling he’d just as soon have robots administering justice in this country, using his rules without discretion. For once, Chief Justice Rehnquist and I agree on something: The effort to bind judges to …