Over 6,000 wounded American soldiers from Iraq, and some delegate to the Republican convention thought this was a good idea. These people have no honor, no integrity, and no shame. NEW YORK (CNN) — Delegates to the Republican National Convention found a new way to take a jab at Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s Vietnam …
Once again I was watching a baseball game (Cubs – Expos) while eating lunch, and I got to wondering: Is Grudzielanek – Garciaparra the double-play combination with the longest two names in baseball history?
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My goodness. That was certainly a crowd of folks walking down the streets of New York. If you have an opportunity to watch re-runs (if any) on C-Span, spend a few minutes. You’ll see a lot of people who disagree with the policies put forth by the current Administration. The caskets were the most moving …
It’s the opening weekend of college football (in August???), so it’s time for my annual plug for
Alan Greenspan should be ashamed of himself. He’s the guy who advocated raising payroll taxes back in the 1980s to pay for Social Security and Medicare. Subsequent to that he endorsed Bush’s tax cuts, and now he says that instead of rescinding those tax cuts to pay for the trouble they’ve caused the SocSec and …
News item: Montreal Expos second baseman Jose Vidro will have knee surgery; his season is over. Happens all the time, right? Yeah, but the description of the surgery is what caught my attention: “(The doctor) will split the patella tendon and remove a small area of scar tissue and chronic inflammatory tissue,” said Bruce Thomas, …
Campaign Desk has a nice piece up asking why the mainstream media immediately fell into its standard “he-said/she-said” style of reporting when the Swift Boat people surfaced, rather than trying to verify the accounts of Kerry’s Navy service itself. I have to wonder if anyone at the WaPo, the NYT, Time or Newsweek bothers to …
Somebody came by looking for this: “number+account+routing+bank+newyork,” which seems a little odd. Do people photocopy their checks and post them on the internet? Even if some people do, do I look that dumb? This one: “best goatee in baseball” seems a little more likely to be found here; I remember watching a televised game a …
Has anyone else noticed that magazines you never thought of as repositories of hard journalism have suddenly become so? First it was Vanity Fair publishing a story which gave us the famous Wolfowitz quote about going to war over WMD “because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,” and now comes Gentleman’s Quarterly …