In other news, Joe Lieberman is still a national embarrassment.
Month: August 2009
Why would William Calley ever be invited to speak to a Kiwanis Club? William Calley, the former Army lieutenant convicted on 22 counts of murder in the infamous My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, publicly ap
England may win the Ashes Fifth Ashes Test, The Oval, day three (close): England 332 & 373-9d v Australia 160 & 80-0 Where to begin? New boy Trott scores a century in his second innings, 119
A majority of Tory MPs “believe the NHS is unsustainable in its present form and want to see the introduction of an insurance system or tax breaks for healthcare fees.” Unsustainable, perhaps, but then virtually everything state run and paid for in the UK can be described as such. I’m not sure how the latter […]
Of course there’s no such thing as a war of necessity, and of course the term should be banished from our lexicon. There are wars that are necessary to defend specific values that we hold, but t
There’s much to ridicule in Sarah Palin’s new Facebook note, not the least of which would be her willingness to claim that her experience as Alaska’s governor — a job she bizar
Insists on giving God the credit. This kind of thing seems like a real insult to genuine religious believers with an IQ over 87, so I guess that’s not his target demographic.
At five months, Chisel Dustup Palin has reached the height and girth of many fully-grown adults, an accomplishment that owes much to his insatiable hunger for cat meat.
A useful reminder that of what the era of congressional bipartisanship actually consisted of: The Senator in question was James Eastland of Mississippi and he was a good deal crazier and more repugnan
Speaking of Kentucky, a short time ago I was fortunate enough to attend a speech by Ali Ahmad Kurd, leader of the Lawyer’s Movement in Pakistan. Kurd detailed his views regarding Pakistani democracy, and his own efforts to see Pervez Musharraf removed from power. Shortly prior to the speech Lt. Governor Dan Mongiardo made Kurd […]
Although Rob beat me to the general news story, a couple related thoughts: Retroactive “vacating” of anything less than a national championship indeed doesn’t strike me as much of a
Sorry, Jay: Memphis will be forced to vacate its NCAA-record 38-victory, Final Four season of 2007-08 under former coach John Calipari and serve three years’ probation because of NCAA rules viol