I am informed that Mr. Eric Boehlert has (for the third time) referenced this post in his unending series of rants about rightwing “warbloggers” and their supposed irresponsibility in (gasp!) questioning the Associated Press about a report and it’s source. At least this time he has quoted me correctly, so that’s a nice change from earlier. Boehlert uses the quote to huff that I think there is no need for a press (!) and cites the The Iraq Study Group... Read more
Really tied up with a project that might keep me busy for much fo the week, but thought you’d enjoy this look at Olga Korbut, 1972 – quite amazing on the uneven bars and floor exercises. She was amazing on every apparatus, but here she is breathtaking and bold. And I think much of what she did on the bars (and the bit on the floor where she jumps and then seems to land on her sternum) are no longer... Read more
On December 19, Eric Boehlert of Media Matters wrote this column in which he selectively quoted me (which is as good as a misquote) and mischaracterized this blog as a “warblog.” While I detest intrablog pissing matches, I felt Boehlert’s mischaracterization of my words and their intended meaning merited a response, and I made one, here. At that time I also took issue with some of Boelhert’s other assertions about “warbloggers” which I found to be either unconvincing or simply... Read more
Well done. H/T Larwyn. It’s so much easier to govern when you get the good press behind you every day, too. Civility is back. And so is dignity and grace. Everything will be good now. Read more
Nothing wrong, just a great deal of activity around here – lots of people in and out since my son is still home from college – that is keeping me from reading news or surfing the web, or writing. Hopefully tonight I can come up for air! Real quick on the Jamil Hussein bit – I’m not going to say anything until it all breaks a little more, because it asks more questions. I did laugh my head off, though,... Read more
Conversation with Buster. “Hey, Ma,” he starts every sentence with that, these days, “who is Tom Jones?” “You mean the character in fiction?” I guessed. “No, someone said I should get his version of Try a Little Tenderness and compare it to Joe Cocker’s.” “Oh, you mean Tom Jones!” I said. I’m amazed the kid even knows Try a Little Tenderness. Or Joe Cocker. “Yeah, who he is?” “Lord, I haven’t thought about him in ages. Another big-voiced Welshman, like... Read more
Graceful, classy, one of a kind. Read more
The always thought-provoking Dick Meyer has a new column up over at CBS, and he makes an interesting observation but doesn’t really go anywhere with it. Which, I suppose is okay. There are plenty of us, left and right, who are hastily opining and drawing conclusions on every fresh thought newly uttered, like the seagulls in “Finding Nemo” who shout “mine, mine, mine” at anything that looks remotely like food, or something shiny. Meyer, in watching the funeral of President... Read more
That would be a “25” on this test to gauge one’s political posture. A “25” puts me in Bush 41 land, although I take issue with a few of the questions for which I thought the answers too broad. I was conflicted, for example in having to choose between Ronald Reagan and FDR as “best president.” See what your score is. Looking around the web, both Betsy Newmark and Ace of Spades are thinking that -gasp- all the election year... Read more
“Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.” – G.K. Chesterton, GK’s Weekly, April 7, 1923 Pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? And presents evidence that maybe what we’re just “discovering” about the press has been true for a long time. Or that the UK press... Read more
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