My friend Anthony Gregory is making the argument that a Democratic Congress won’t necessarily lead to a quicker end to the war, using Vietnam as a historical example to support his case. I’ll grant that I’m skeptical that a Democratic Congress will really hold Bush’s feet to the fire over Iraq, but the Vietnam analogy [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Well, all my predictions for the post-season were wrong save the one that really mattered: the Cardinals are in the World Series. It was an excellent NLCS with a game seven that will be talked about for years. The series also taught us some valuable lessons; to wit: 1) Willie Randolph still has a ways [...]
Someone took what I’m sure was an immense amount of time and made this video of Bush speaking the words to “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” to a sped up version of the song. Wow, remember when U2 good?
In his L.A. Times column today, conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg admitted what has been patently obvious to most thinking Americans for some time now: the Iraq War was a mistake. But it can’t be that simple for Goldberg; the war is a worthy mistake because it is only a mistake in retrospect. If only someone [...]
I was watching the Colbert Report today (video here), and he suggested that Dennis Hastert “stangle a prostitute with piano wire” to distract from the Mark Foley scandal. When I thought about that hypothetically happening, I was incredibly disturbed by this subsequent thought: there is still a solid thirty percent of his electorate that would [...]
Find out what ethnic mob is trafficking your drugs with these fun maps. (From Hit and Run.) Maybe this shouldn’t be a fun link, but I’ve been looking for a reason to link to it, so I’m gonna. Go here to have installments of a number of great books and essays sent to you as [...]
The Boys of Summer are gone, and now it’s time to find out who will be this year’s Mister October. The playoffs have started, which means I have some predictions to make, so here we go. Let’s start with the only series already under way: the Twins and the A’s. The A’s have a solid [...]
