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Entries from December 2004

Joe Montana Astride

December 16th, 2004 2 Comments

Joe Montana is spending his retirement playing cowboy.
A Bengals fan has the scoop.

The worst moment comes when he gets too deep while cutting off a particularly energetic heifer and backs into the edge of the herd. It’s a bad ride, and he knows it. Montana shakes his head as the buzzer sounds. He’s fallen from [...]

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Failure of Framing

December 15th, 2004 No Comments

People like to disparage framing projects as “just words” or the like. But what to do when your own are fooled by the other sides false dichotomies?
Will Marshall writes:

Democrats themselves seem unsure of their true identity: Are they the anti-war party or the party of tough-minded liberals, the party of Gov. Howard Dean or the [...]

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Do Not Be Kaus

December 13th, 2004 No Comments

Mickey Kaus is insane.
He wrote:

The Marc Rich pardon was scandalous mainly because it taught a generation of young Americans that you could buy your way out of punishment.

It takes a special stupid genius to think up a sentence of the above kind.

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Dare not Speak the Name

December 13th, 2004 No Comments

Ed Kilgore doesn’t want to change his name just because some guy in the Virginia GOP is a jerk.
Anyway, Kilgore was Ed’s name first. As this anecdote attests, that is the important thing:

It kinda reminds me of an incident back in the McCarthy era, when some Republican Congressman arose on the House floor to demand [...]

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Powell Abroad

December 13th, 2004 No Comments

Colin Powell met with Arab leaders on economic and education reform.
Arab leaders talked a whole bunch about Israel.
We do know this:

Morocco, the host of the meeting, tried to distance itself from calls for political reform, and newspapers declared the meeting a flop.

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United States for United Statesians

December 13th, 2004 No Comments

I know next to nothing about Romania.
Apprently they just had an election.
The opposition candidates popular slogan:

Romania to the Romanians.

If it works in Peoria…

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Referencing with the Devil

December 10th, 2004 No Comments

Chris Mooney passes on the ultimate citation:
“Satan et al.”
Unsurprisingly, the reference springs from that paragon of academic rigor, creationism.
Actually, I have heard of God being cited before, but then he at least wrote a book.

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Tut Tut

December 5th, 2004 No Comments

Apparently, King Tut’s tombery is on tour.
Steve Martin has the dig down:

I stepped over the backs of many Egyptologists who wanted to write this article, but it’s better that they learn their lesson now: silly song writers are powerful and vicious people who will stop at nothing to write an article about subjects they [...]

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Giambi’s went with ‘the Clean’

December 2nd, 2004 No Comments

I know it was almost expected, but its still sad.
Jason and Jeremy Giambi admitted to taking steroids received from the BALCO laboratory.

During his testimony, the 10-year veteran [Giambi] described how Anderson had begun sending him several different performance-enhancers, including a batch of injectable testosterone, “the cream” and “the clear.” Giambi also testified that Anderson had [...]

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