Entries from December 2004
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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