This has to be a good omen. The Yankees left the bases loaded and got no runs in the first inning of Game One of the LCS this evening. Update: My goodness, they did it twice more in the first six innings. Fister pitched a whale of a game, and then Valverde blew it for …
but this: May the Yankees be destroyed by the Tigers in the ALCS. May they be swept into oblivion ignominiously, and may they take their obnoxious fans with them.
If you want a VP debate recap, go read Charlie Pierce. It’s only half-a-dozen paragraphs and the last two sentences are killer. * = Zombie-eyed granny-starver, a registered trademark of Mr. Pierce
Matt Yglesias, quoted in full: Here’s one question I’m all but certain won’t be asked tonight but really should: Given that both tickets are running on rival deficit reduction plans, could you explain to the American people what problem in the typical person’s life today would be ameliorated by a smaller deficit? I think the …
Here are some (there may be more) of Romney’s different positions on choice, abortion, and contraception. It’s quite an array. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy He’s like this on everything. “Here! You don’t like my position on X? Wait a minute, I’ll change it!” The man has no …
88 workers in 28 stores have gone on strike in 12 different cities. Considering the company employs 1.4M people, that’s not much, but it’s the first time retail workers have ever struck Wal-Mart. The workers are protesting company attempts to “silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job,” according to …
The consensus opinion of Romney’s speech at VMI today seems to be that it was short on specifics, espoused more or less the same policies in most cases as the ones President Obama already has in place, and dull. Via Kevin Drum comes a link to Fred Kaplan’s article at Slate. Neither Drum nor Kaplan …
Which means doing laundry while watching playoff baseball. I’m a little disappointed that the Tigers now have a 2-game edge in their series with the As, but I’m delighted that the Nationals are a game up on the Cards and the Reds are a game up on the Giants. The Orioles and Yankees are in …
And it feels like only yesterday. This was released two months before we moved from LA to Northern Virginia, and it’s safe to say I didn’t hear it. The first Beatles record I can swear I heard on the radio was I Want to Hold Your Hand a year later. Nonetheless, it was a seminal …