Nice little post-mortem from Alessandra Stanley….

You can put me down for that “direct election” option. Whatever else may be true, in our society there is simply no defensible rationale for “weighting” votes. All votes ought to count the same unless we come upon a strategy for excluding idiots from the process entirely. ______________________________________ David S. Broder / Syndicated columnist Electoral College alternatives deserve careful scrutiny

Good lord. Rock Hill chief says Taser was used after woman attacked officer

Can’t the NCAA get ANYTHING right? Report: NCAA won’t sanction coach Neuheisel

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

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

I’d like to hear a major party candidate use this as the basis of a campaign speech. I’d want to see if the facility in which the speech was being given had a loud enough PA system so that the candidate could be heard over the laughter. Seriously, this would be significantly funnier than most of the sitcoms on TV

Stewart segment transcript.

This may be the worst ass-whipping that anybody in TV news has ever taken. Stewart is beyond brilliant. Go watch it right now.

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

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,

This is an important subject for us to think about. Note especially his comments toward the end – what do we now do in Iraq?

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In a stunning upset, my wife Angela soundly thrashed George W. Bush in the third and final presidential debate Wednesday night. This conclusion is based on my assessment of her arguments as compared to the four or five seconds of each Bush answer that I actually heard.

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