From the WaPo: The White House has refused to give Congress documents about the death of former NFL player Pat Tillman, with White House counsel Fred F. Fielding saying that certain papers relating to discussion of the friendly-fire shooting “implicate Executive Branch confidentiality interests.” Can one assume that there was some sort of communication between …
Here’s one for the books: under the “Sights and Sounds” section of this page at the Atlanta Braves’ MLB.com website is Vin Scully’s call of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run. You’ll remember that Aaron hit it off the Dodgers’ Al Downing, which is why Scully broadcast it; he was and remains the Dodgers’ broadcasting genius. …
Yesterday was a red-letter day: I got the first text message I’ve ever received. Ok, it was a verification note from Facebook. Sue me (and be my friend!).
For the first time in history, as far as anyone knows so far, a Hindu cleric gave the morning invocation as the Senate opened today. Yay, diversity, right? Not so much. Christian (?) activists disrupted the ceremony. Watch the video. So is the leader of the group these clowns belong to repentant? Well, no. Well, …
Dear Senator Reid, If the Republicans in the Senate keep obstructing legislation, please call it the filibuster it is. You’re losing the public relations war (and it is a war; did you learn nothing from the “nuclear option” phrase so happily sold to the media?). In this case it was legislation that would ensure that …
In comments below, my friend ToxicLabRat mentions the 40th anniversary issue of Rolling Stone. Well. Since I was a college freshman that summer, how could I help but go buy the thing? In an article about the dual-track histories of 1967 (free love and hippies over here, while over there Reagan was elected governor of …
So who’s already seen Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? Who’s planning to go this week? I notice that if I wanted to go to a matinee on Friday I could see it as early as 9:00am; man. Buttered popcorn and a 24-oz. soda at that hour?
Imagine this: you’ve got the All Star Game on the tube as you’re talking to a credit card company about adding a name to an account. You’re puzzling with various identification numbers and fumbling with papers. As you’re doing this, you happen to look out the door, and there, smiling gloriously, is your fourteen-year-old bird …
Brent Budowsky concludes: War was treated by George W. Bush not as a mean to unite the nation, to win the war, but as a means to divide the nation, to win his quest for unlimited power. George Bush was never the president of the whole American people. He was never the president of Democrats …
Our Cro-Magnon ancestors ate plenty of raw meat and lived a full life-span; why must we cook ours to a 160-degree internal temperature?