Sox

Some thoughts on the Sox/Yanx series. 1: Curt Schilling is much man. That is all ye know and all ye need to know. 2: I can’t believe that we actually saw two ump huddles result in the right call in one game. Hell, NFL umps usually botch at least one out of three challenges, and they have video to rely

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Pat Robertson: “I warned Bush”

Okay, we have a new leader in the Weirdest Damned Story of the Year Sweepstakes – Robertson: I warned Bush on Iraq casualties “And I warned him about this war. I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying to say, ‘Mr. President, you had better prepare the American people for casualties.’ ” Robertson said the

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Succinct

On my earlier post, fings offered this comment, which I absolutely had to drag up onto the top page: Subject: The problem with “balance”. If Bush said “The moon is made out of cheese.” and Kerry said “The moon is made of rock, similar to that of Earth.”, the headline would be “Bush, Kerry: Opinions on Moon differ.” I spend

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Spin, Subjectivism, Objectivity, etc.

First, today’s Howard Kurtz piece in the WashPost: ‘Balance’ in a Spinning World I’ve been suspicious for some time that objective journalism, as an institution and a working philosophy, was in deep kim-chee, and the current election cycle has done nothing but highlight the reasons why our grand 20th Century experiment is starting to smell like a failure. In fact,

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Idea for new reality series

This concept is inspired by a weird-ass dream I had last night. The dream, I can only suppose, was inspired by something I ate. 16 contestants vie for a chance to become a real-live trucker. The show, called “Smokey and the Donald,” presents the contestants with a new transportation task each week (smuggling Mexican hookers across the border for the

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meme

Okay, jentifred wants to play. Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does. Nena – the German greatest hits release Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does. The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does.

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