Archive | February 2010
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Smoltz says no to Congress, but a worse option looms
John Smoltz, an enthusiastic backer of Boy Asshole Ralph Reed, is being talked up as a potential replacement for retiring U.S. congressman John Linder. I was a huge fan of Smoltz, the pitcher, but people who’d know have unflattering things to say about him off the field. UPDATE: Smoltz says he’s not interested, but Jack [...]
What does Paul Hewitt have in common with Sonny, Shirley and the Ox?
None would last a minute in a hostile media market like New York or Chicago. Today it was the Tech hoops coach’s turn to blame all his problems on the local organ. “I haven’t read your paper since 2005. After the 2005 season, when that team that went to the ACC finals and went to [...]
McCain finally gets Obama’s goat
I lost considerable respect for John McCain when he picked Coach Palin to be his veep. It was naive of me to think that a politician could rise above cynicism. But I’ll give him credit when due, and at today’s health care summit McCain offered a fairly compelling critique of the unseemly process of health [...]
Don’t you miss the seasons?
People from home would always ask me that after I moved to Los Angeles. A: No Atlanta Weather Partly cloudy 28° F
Teabagging, a history
Dead solid perfect: In the seventeen-eighties she lived in Sheffield, Massachusetts, during a period of tight credit and land foreclosures and was sympathetic to the farmers’ uprising known as Shay’s Rebellion that began there. In the eighteen-fifties she was a non-voting constituent of Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. In the eighteen-nineties she was [...]
Jeb Bush, elitist
Re: Coach Palin “I mean, I don’t know what her deal is, but my belief is in 2010 and 2012, public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity.”
