Sorry. I know it might tick some readers off, but I don’t care. Ann Coulter completely out of line with this headline. Even if the thought behind the headline appears nowhere in the text of her essay, even if the headline is nothing more than an “attention grabber” and a means by which she can garner more attention, that’s a despicable way to go about getting it. It’s right up there with the adolescent, “oh, look, aren’t we daring and... Read more
So, Buster is sitting at the piano, pounding away and singing. I can’t hear what he’s crooning, because he’s on the other side of the house, but it sounds pretty good. A few minutes later he comes in and says, “I’m gonna make ‘Sexual Healing’ more soulful.” I did a spit-take (tea all over the screen) and peered at him over my glasses: “Umm…You’re going to be more soulful than Marvin Gaye?” “Yeah,” he said. “Why not?” “Buster,” I sighed.... Read more
You know it just killed them to do it, and as Ken Shepherd writes here, they didn’t exactly blare the positives the way they did the negatives: What a difference three days make. 72 little hours. In that time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after inflation. “[T]he current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth... Read more
In yesterday’s game, Jeter once again made a terrific play, fielding a grounder, spinning 360 degrees while in the air and making a perfect throw to get the runner out at first. No easy feat with no feet on the ground – the throw is built entirely on upper body strength – but Jeter makes it look simple. A commenter during the broadcast said (paraphrasing), “I’ve watched him do that move for 11 years, now, and after a while you... Read more
A few years ago the press and the left were gasping about the “brilliance” of some novella (whose name escapes me – it was called Checkpoint, or Flashpoint or Freakpoint or something – I’ll have to go to the Borders Bargain Bin and see what it’s called, again) in which a character discusses “assassinating George W. Bush.” How daring! It represented the staggering intellectualism of Bush Derangement Syndrome, or whatever. And there have been, here and there, in London and... Read more
Sort of a nice thing happened this week…I got invited to be interviewed by the Baltimore Sun for a podcast – can you imagine? With all that’s happening in the world, they’re out of ideas – they must be to want to talk to me! Exchanged some emails with a very congenial and witty fellow who wanted to talk to me about the blog and why I write and what I write and blah, blah, blah. I was pleased they... Read more
That would be Bulldog Pundit, who doesn’t much like John McCain, and Pat Hynes, who likes McCain so much he’s working for him. It’s nice to see two people in thorough disagreement with each other managing to do it like adults. An example for the rest of us. Read more
“This is how you do it…” Thus says from my Li’l Bro Thom (no Bush-lover, he) who very much appreciated seeing President Bush not receive communion while attending a Catholic mass. Non-Catholics and Catholics who have not yet gone through the process of formally receiving the sacrament of reconciliation and their first communion, but who wish to “participate” in that part of the Mass are invited to process to the minister dispensing the Holy Eucharist with their hands crossed upon... Read more
Jay Ambrose has a great piece up that touches on something I’ve always maintained, that the word “incurious” belongs rightly to the press, not the president. The incurious press never did want to know about John Kerry’s military records…they never did actually want to hear what the Swiftboat Vets had to say…hell, they weren’t even curious enough about Plamegate to ask Joe Wilson a question beyond “so, how is the Bush Neocon Cabal out to get you?” They never were... Read more
A year ago we were listening to reporters tell us that the Superdome was hell-on-earth, that gangs were raping and murdering babies…based on nothing more factual than an escape of hot air out of someone’s inflamed rantings. Now, has some video that I’m not sure we should pay any attention to: From KTVU in San Francisco, here’s a little bit of information that somehow failed to make it into any of the media reports on yesterday’s hit and run attacks... Read more
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