Aw, rats. Packers, what was wrong with you today? You didn’t look anything like the team you’d been all season long. One of the radio broadcasters said by his count your receivers dropped eight passes today. You don’t win when your main weapons perform like that. So now it’s Giants vs. 49ers in the NFC …
Wow! Five lead changes in the last four minutes. That’s the best football game I’ve watched in years.
News Item: Battle for social conservatives heats up as Santorum wins key endorsement I’m afraid Messrs. Perkins, Dobson, Bauer, and Wildmon are going to be sadly disappointed at how little help their support is going to be to Santorum. I also think that weakness is going to be one more piece of evidence that the …
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Charlie Pierce reflects on the Civil Rights Movement, whose most famous proponent’s day we celebrate on Monday. He begins: I am a child of the civil-rights movement. I did not know I was one for a very long time, and I am not yet matured into a full adult of the civil-rights movement. Along with …
I am hard-pressed to think of a single thing about South Carolina’s politicians that is worthy of approving, but I’ll give the state elections people credit for one thing: they scheduled the primary on a Saturday. That’s a lot more convenient for people to get to the polling booths than Tuesday. Now if only the …
Today Arthur Brisbane, the Public Editor of the NYT, asked his readers I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. Well. As you can imagine, this unleashed a few hundred volleys in the comments to his post, most …
The Europeans who advocated major austerity for Greece to solve its budget problems are now watching as the country slides into depression. They seem to have believed that punishing Greek politicians for their profligate ways was more important than keeping the country as a going concern. European powers, led by fiscally conservative Germany, have been …
It’s a good thing nobody issued me a pundit certificate, because I can’t get any more interested in the Republican primary in New Hampshire than I was in that dull football game last night. The only suspense seems to be “will Romney win by single-digit percentage points and thus ‘lose’ or will he win by …
Whoopee. A rematch. Pardon me for being less than enthusiastic, particularly when this so-called National Championship Game is between two teams from the same conference. I’ll watch, but I won’t be glued to my seat. Now if it were LSU against Oklahoma State . . .
Two points for the entire game? Man, Atlanta made the Giants defense look a lot better than it is, I think. And even those two points were the result of an intentional grounding call in the end zone, not anything the Falcons’ offense did. ‘Course, that just means the Giants get to play the Packers …