Archive for March, 2008
Last In War, Last In Peace, First In The National League
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Washington Nationals, baseball | Leave a Comment
Man, it’s been almost three years since the glory days of ‘05 when I was busting that one out regularly*. But, guess what: Everyone in the NL East has the result of at least one game in, and the Nats are in first place! Sure, they’ve only got a .5 game lead over the 1-0 [...]
Way To Suck, Ed Rendell
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Ed Rendell, FOX News, Hillary Clinton | 1 Comment
“VRWC” jokes aside, legitimizing FOX News is decidedly not cool:
Drudge, Limbaugh, Richard Mellon Scaife, The American Spectator… Which element of the VRWC will the Clinton campaign make common cause with next? Enter top Clinton surrogate Ed Rendell:
I think during this entire primary coverage, starting in Iowa and up to the present — FOX has done [...]
A Thought On Gallup
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Barack Obama, polls | Leave a Comment
Seems everyone is describing the latest Gallup daily tracking numbers with some variation on, “Obama has a ten point lead, which is his biggest ever.” However, in my opinion, Obama breaking from plurality support to majority support is a more important factoid than the size of his lead. The fact that undecideds have all but [...]
Asking All Twelve Of My Readers For Money
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under DC, DC enfranchisement, Mike Panetta, campaign fundraising | Leave a Comment
If you’re considering giving some money to a candidate today as part of a pre-FEC deadline fundraising push, here’s another option that I would encourage you to consider, courtesy of an email I just received:
Dear Andrew,
I’m writing today to ask for your support. A few months ago I filed papers with the Federal Election Commission [...]
America Doesn’t Torture
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 60 minutes, Bush administration, Murat Kurnaz, detainee abuse, war crimes | Leave a Comment
Read this. Seriously, read it. Or watch the 60 Minutes piece:
Getting booed at a baseball game doesn’t begin to serve as fair punishment for the men responsible. (Nor does being forced to talk to Joe Morgan for half an hour, for that matter.) I’m not optimistic when it comes to Murat Kurnaz’s odds of ever [...]
Wordpress Upgrade Troubles
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Wordpress, meta | Leave a Comment
This new version of Wordpress (2.5) is giving me some issues, especially in Firefox. Some of the functions in the post editor don’t work properly, so I have to either use IE or enter the html tags directly. Also, I’m having a lot of trouble uploading images and inserting them into posts.
Does anyone know if [...]
I Want Whatever This Guy’s Smoking
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton | Leave a Comment
One of Josh Marshall’s more delusional readers writes him an email:
Many Clinton supporters find the current attempts to muscle her out of the race despicable. Maybe now is the time for Obama to take one for the team and accept her offer of the VP slot. It is the position he is better qualified for, [...]
Things I Don’t Care About
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Hillary Clinton, Things I Don't Care About, campaign fundraising | Leave a Comment
(Part four in an ongoing series)
Whether the Clinton campaign pays its bills in a timely manner.
No, it doesn’t tell us anything about how she would run the White House or what her priorities would be as president. All it tells us is that her campaign is short on funds. And we already knew that.
Sphere: Related [...]
The Onion’s Editorial Cartoonist Remains Brilliant
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Eliot Spitzer, The Onion, editorial cartoons | Leave a Comment
Ha!
Dumbest Duo In Broadcasting History
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under George W Bush, Joe Morgan, Nationals Park, Washington Nationals, baseball | Leave a Comment
ESPN managed to not only find a man less intellectually curious than Joe Morgan, but put the two in the broadcasting booth together for a solid two innings of nonsensical ignorance! All hail our glorious president!
Here, try to take your mind off the headache with another look at Zimmy breaking in the park in style:
You [...]
Or Maybe My Sense Of “Last Throes” Is As Poor As Dick Cheney’s
Posted on March 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Hillary Clinton | Leave a Comment
Yes, I’ve been just as bothered by the Clinton campaign of late as most any other pro-Obama
blogger you may be reading. But I think this statement may be getting a bit of an overreaction from some quarters:
A day after Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged the candidates to end the race by July [...]
Dith Pran, 1942-2008
Posted on March 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Cambodia, Dith Pran, Khmer Rouge, obituaries | Leave a Comment
Via Chris in Paris, I see that Dith Pran, a survivor of and invaluable witness to the Khmer Rouge terror, has passed away.
The timing of Dith Pran’s death is a bit of a coincidence for me, personally: I started rereading Samantha Power’s phenomenal A Problem From Hell a few weeks ago “as a protest” when [...]
The New Stadium
Posted on March 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under DC, Nationals Park, Washington Nationals | Leave a Comment
Walking in from the Metro station, it was absolutely breathtaking. You walk directly from the entrance into the promenade behind the outfield, so the field itself is directly in front of you with the stadium rising all around. My first thought was, “This looks perfect.” I think the adjective I really need to use here [...]
This Had Better Be The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Posted on March 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, polls | Leave a Comment
Wow, the Gallup daily tracking poll has Obama up 50 to 42 over Clinton. As Salon’s War Room (where I saw this) notes, “That is not only his best performance since the Wright controversy blew up but also ties his biggest lead ever in the Gallup poll daily tracking program.”
As I said earlier, the story [...]
So Much Depression
Posted on March 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iraq war | Leave a Comment
I’ve spent all week blogging and I’ve barely mentioned Iraq once despite the steady stream of delightful news coming from our favorite failed colony over the past few days. Why? It just doesn’t seem like there’s much to say beyond, “This whole thing sure looks to be going to hell.” Of course, it’s been going [...]
Things I Don’t Care About
Posted on March 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Things I Don't Care About, political ads | Leave a Comment
(Part 3 in an ongoing series)
John McCain being an American American American American.
The ad, if you care:
“Come on, pal. Fugu me!”
Posted on March 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under food, health scares, sushi | Leave a Comment
The latest food scare! What do we have today? “Experts warn about sushi risks“! This one ought to be great; is some new pollutant attacking our fish? Did some morons taint the tuna supply with E. coli? Does a new study show that raw fish contains a rare parasite which eventually causes cancer?
But chefs and [...]
The Weekend Outlook
Posted on March 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Barack Obama, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Patrick Leahy | Leave a Comment
Three big pieces of primary news this morning:
1) PA Sen. Casey will endorse Barack Obama.
Senatorial endorsements didn’t do much for Obama in Massachusetts as far as winning goes, but a vote of confidence from a guy who by appearances belongs in Clinton’s camp certainly can’t hurt. Plus, every point Obama gains in PA keeps Hillary [...]
Movies I Won’t Be Seeing: 21
Posted on March 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 21, Bringing Down the House, gambling, movies | Leave a Comment
Bringing Down the House was a decent book that was made worth reading in large part by its “true story” angle. It wasn’t quite told with a reported non-fiction approach (the book was narrated more in the style of a novel), but the facts and characters weren’t fictionalized (as far as I know) to make [...]
$0.35 $0.50 Plug
Posted on March 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Nationals Park, Washington Nationals, baseball | Leave a Comment
Who knew the Post had increased its newsstand price by $.15? Anyway, check out today’s paper for an excellent supplemental section containing everything you want to know about the new stadium. I think the articles are available on the website, but you might not get all of the cool cross-sections of the stadium, little fact [...]
