Belated football picks
Packers over Bears. Rodgers is playing out of his mind right now. Steelers over Jets. Roethlisberger is better than Sanchez.
Archive of entries posted on January 2011
This is January, right?
I was just out and about and got stuck in a long line of cars waiting for traffic lights. The sun was pouring through all our windshields, and everybody including me was mopping sweat off our foreheads. It’s in the high 80s today.
Language shifts
For something as set in its ways as the Catholic Church, the Mass I went to today was different in language from the ones I used to go to every Sunday until I was about 18. I grant you that when I first learned the Mass as an altar boy it was in Latin, and …
Hate crime
The Spokane bomb turned out to be even more deadly than initially thought. “They haven’t seen anything like this in this country,” the official said. “This was the worst device, and most intentional device, I’ve ever seen.” The FBI on Wednesday declined to reveal any details about the bomb, which was spotted by three city …
Sanity check
Which state sends the looniest representatives to the US House? I dunno. There are so many candidates it’s hard to judge. However, I’d put Texas close to the top, and my principal example would be Louie Gohmert. What’s he done now? Well . . . This week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) joined the growing chorus …
Investigate this!
Subhead to an unflattering profile of Darrell Issa (Ca-R), the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Darrell Issa, the congressman about to make life more difficult for President Obama, has had some troubles of his own. I guess yes. Those troubles include several charges of auto theft, suspected arson, a …
MLK Jr. Day, 2011
Digby has some excellent thoughts about Dr. King and his work here. Here’s my post from 2008, which includes a link to a YouTube video of his anti-Vietnam speech of 1967. The last word goes to Charlie Pierce on Facebook: “Everytime someone tells me that MLK was not a divisive figure, I feel obligated to …
America’s demographics
Judging from the amount of Spanish-language spam I’m getting these days, all those people telling us that Hispanics are the fastest-growing segment of the population are correct.
Vacancy!
One of the benefits of being a military kid was that before I was twelve years old I had been on a couple of coast-to-coast drives. When I was seventeen we embarked on the last one, leaving Northern Virginia in June and arriving in Los Angeles in July, stopping in various unheralded places on the …
Too true, too true
Here’s an Esquire editorial remembering Oklahoma City, remarking on the Tucson shootings and what has happened on the political right since: There was a lot of what was called “defensiveness” on the activist Right, but it was nothing of the sort. They were on offense, just the way they have been since they took that …