Joe Posnanski, on how he wants to like Derek Jeter, but..So why is it that I’m often writing negative things about Derek Jeter? I realized Friday that it has absolutely nothing to do with Jeter himself. No, what drives me batty is that Jeter —...
Month: May 2008
In 1861, HMS Warrior set the state of the art in Line of Battle Ship, combining steam engines, advanced guns, and an iron hull, she was substantially superior to her.
George W. Bush, speaking about Osama bin Laden at a press conference, 24 May 2007:Why is he at large? Because we haven't got him yet, Jim. That's why. And he's.
To play against recent type somewhat, and since they seem to have been the final straw for a lot of people, I should probably say that I don't actually think that the RFK comments are a big deal at all. The example was poorly chosen,...
I'm no democratic consultant, but if I were I'd be putting together some 30 second spots about McCain's vote on this one.
The popularity of American Idol (which, according to today's Times recap, took a major uptick in subtlety and musicality when one of the third-raters essayed a Collective Soul cover.) The.
Gerald Ford, delivering the commencement address at Warner Pacific College, 23 May 1976:Our national life has reached a point where we must recover transcendent qualities of spirituality and morality. I know of no better way for Americans to achieve personal and social regeneration. Franz Kafka...
Ezra:"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated.
Good post."And now Lieberman is out there playing that 'toughness' card for John McCain. I just can't believe it. Back in 2006, I looked at Ned Lamont and I saw.
It's difficult for me to express just how moronic this column is:THIS MAY sound like an extreme conclusion but, as Ari Bar Yossef, retired lieutenant-colonel and administrator of the Knesset's Security Committee, writes in the army journal Ma'arachot, such cases of Islamist national suicide are...
This is pretty cool.My current home, in Cincinnati, scores an 80. My last apartment in Lexington scored a 98, although that's misleading; it counts as a grocery store something that.
It looks like even if they amend the Constitution to accommodate Granholm and Schwarzenegger I'll have no chance of becoming president. I mean, just the French is bad enough...