Posted in Entertainment on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted in a bit, so I thought I’d just check in and toss out a few observations about the Academy Awards.
Jon Stewart did a good job hosting. He was funny and not fawning. I especially enjoyed his wry skewering of the concept of watching movies on an iPhone.
It doesn’t surprise me that this [...]
Posted in Politics, Sports on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t watch the “Steroid Hearings” yesterday, but by the accounts I’ve read I’d say the Senate’s investigation into performance-enhancing drugs in baseball was quite a spectacle. Some wonder why the Senate would waste tax-payer dollars on such a trivial matter. The answer to that is easy: Under Democratic leadership, the Senate is trivial. I [...]
Posted in Politics, Sports on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spring training is just around the corner, the time when baseball’s major league teams head to Florida and Arizona to prepare themselves for the long season ahead. On Boston.com, the web site for the Boston Globe, I’m already reading reports from Fort Myers about the Red Sox. With icy rain falling outside my front door, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Enjoy this video spoof. I wish it weren’t so true.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Glenn Greenwald points to this op-ed piece by Richard A. Clarke, former head of counterterrorism at the National Security Council. This early paragraph captures the tenor of the piece:
When I left the Bush administration in 2003, it was clear to me that its strategy for defeating terrorism was leaving our nation more vulnerable and our people [...]
