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That’s the Ticket! 2008-04-02 01:50:03 While Jon Lovitz was a cast member at Saturday Night Live from 1985-90, he created several memorable characters, and first among equals was surely Tommy Flanagan (pronounced, of course, flan-A-gan), the Pathological Liar. As describibed by Wikipedia, Tommy “would tell outrageous, unbelievable lies to make himself sound important. One recurring lie was claiming he was [...] Read more:Ticket
35 Years of Experience: Years 1 + 2 2008-04-02 01:27:33 Reverend Jeremiah Wright has at least temporarily retired the phrase “chickens coming home to roost” but that’s the phrase that comes to mind reading Dan Calabrese’s column about Hillary Clinton’s performance as a staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committee’s Impeachment Inquiry in 1973-4.
Mr. Calabrese’s is the most recent retread of the basic charges made [...] Read more:Years
RN’s High Score Evidently Safe 2008-04-01 22:50:56 RN had a couple of lanes installed at the White House, but after his recent effort, Sen. Obama, if elected, will not bowl:
“I tried bowling (Sunday) in Pennsylvania and threw two gutter balls,” Obama said. “So [if in the White House] we’ll have a basketball court, at least a decent half court.” Read more:Score
Oliver’s Anger 2008-04-01 22:41:56 Looks like Oliver
Stone’s “Bush” will be another hatchetjob.
Counting on Clinton 2008-04-01 22:37:26 Those convinced Sen. Clinton
’s can’t win the popular vote in the Democratic primary season should check out the analysis of the Bill James of U.S. politics, Michael Barone. Read more:Counting
Odds On 2008-04-01 21:44:28 The New York Yankees season opener, rained out on Sunday, was completed ten minutes ago. The Yanks beat the Blue Jays 3-2.
Here’s some history —with a tip of the cap to the LoHud Yankees blog:
The Yankees are 61-43-1 on Opening Day, 28-10 at the Stadium. They are 16-11 in presidential election years. When the [...]
Distance Lends Excitement 2008-04-01 14:50:02 Thomas Campbell, an otherwise minor Scottish poet, achieved Bartlett status with the observation that:
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
But distance can also lend excitement, and Senator Clinton has now had to mobilize two of the top aides who accompanied her to Tuzla to weigh [...] Read more:Excitement
On Greenspan’s Watch 2008-04-01 13:01:22 RN would be reading this scary article today by his former advisor, Kevin Phillips, about burgeoning, staggering Big Finance. Read more:Greenspan
Explaining Why, Uh, Certain Of Us Always Worry 2008-04-01 12:50:02 Moderates, pragmatists, and centrists are sometimes called unprincipled and weak for not taking a stand. According to the “Economist,” based on Arthur Brooks’s book Gross National Happiness, it turns out that the hardest, or at least the most anxious-making, work is done in the middle of the road:
Mr Brooks…finds that extremists of both sides are happier than [...]
Dr. King and the Jericho Road 2008-04-04 21:32:49 Halfway between Jerusalem and Jericho
, summer 2007
Here is Dr. King last speech, in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, given on April 3, 1968. People have been debating what a modern-day prophetic sermon sounds like. This is it — and not just because of its most famous, prescient words:
Well, I don’t know what will happen [...]
Sack The Rich 2008-04-04 18:23:51 In eight years the Clintons earned $109 million, paid $33.8 million in taxes, and gave another $10 million to charity. Whether they’re paying their “fair share,” whether they’re “doing their bit,” is in the eye of the beholder. This does seem to be more evidence (if we need any) of how much wealthy people to [...]
Whose Side Are You On? 2008-04-04 16:51:06 The story accompanying this clip was all about Senator Obama losing his cool and rudely brushing off some poor shmuck who just wanted to take a picture with him.
I mean, what’s such a big deal about asking a dude to take a picture with you? OK, the dude is busy doing other things, but [...]
Boy Is Their Face Red 2008-04-04 16:12:12 London’s Metropolitan Police force wanted to design a poster warning Londoners against the dangers of getting involved with the slick con artist street gamblers that surface, like mushrooms, every spring on the sidewalks (or pavements as they call it in their odd dialect) of that great city.
Somebody had the idea of going to a cartoon [...]
McCain: A “Mad” Man? 2008-04-04 12:25:21 As the Democrats prepare to go the distance, with the protracted battle for their party’s nomination not likely to be resolved for many months, their drama is the page-one political campaign news story these days. Most of the stuff about John McCain
is on page-two.
Except for that TEMPER thing.
Senator McCain’s propensity for volatility is a [...]
I Am The Warrior 2008-04-04 11:15:45 Jonathan Chait is cynical about Karl Rove and other conservative pundits who evince respect for Sen. Clinton now that she is losing, having celebrated Sen. Obama when she appeared to be the frontrunner. But it doesn’t all have to do with tactics. As a Republican I’m rooting for her, too, even though she’d probably be [...] Read more:Warrior
Remembering John Heinz 2008-04-04 09:36:39 John Heinz died seventeen years ago today. Tragically and tragically before time. The issues he cared about —and characteristically burrowed in on— were seen as esoteric, and even irrelevant, by many at the time. But today we can see that the reform of Social Security, the aspects and ramifications of the aging [...] Read more:Remembering
Ever Is, Oh, 18 Years Or So 2008-04-04 02:39:56 “Huffington Post” headline:
Concern Over Country’s Direction At Greatest Level Ever Recorded
Lead of New York Times article to which headline refers:
Americans are more dissatisfied with the country’s direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s, according to the latest poll. Read more:Years
Evolving Thought 2008-04-04 02:28:15 RN’s friend and speechwriter Ben Stein says that proponents of intelligent design have rights, too.
A Riot of Ranunculus 2008-04-04 02:15:58 It’s spring everywhere, but it’s especially spring in the famed flower fields in north San Diego county, California.
Mr. Heston Does Moses At The Nixon 2008-04-06 23:40:35 In his post-movie days, Charlton Heston wrote many best-selling books and accepted several invitations from the Nixon
Library to lecture and autograph.
Naturally, he’d always attract a standing-room-only crowd eager to hear his commentary, enjoy that amazing voice, and stand in front of him in awe while he’d sign their books.
He wasn’t one to hang out [...]
The Last Meeting 2008-04-06 15:34:13 Still divided over missile defense, Putin and Bush conclude their last meeting as foreign leaders. Putin remains peeved over the United States insistence on a European missile defense block, as Bush maintains aspirations to absorb former members of the Soviet bloc.
The next President ought to take this relationship very seriously. It’s a very delicate balance [...]
The Old Nixon Was Right 2008-04-06 15:29:43 E. J. Dionne waxes cynical when surveying the aftermath of Dr. King’s death:
A shrewd politician named Richard Nixon
sensed the direction of the political winds. When President Johnson’s commission on urban unrest released its report in early 1968 and blamed the previous year’s rioting on “white racism,” Nixon would have none of it. The commission, [...] Read more:Right
R.I.P Charlton Heston (1923-2008) 2008-04-06 12:29:12 Scott Johnson from Powerline has a touching tribute to the late actor:
The death of Charlton
Heston represents a great loss for American art. It’s possible to imagine other fine actors of his era playing the roles Heston made unforgettable, but it’s not possible to imagine the other actors making them unforgettable. From Moses to [...]
Featured Articles — April 6, 2008 2008-04-06 12:20:19 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
McCain’s Housing Restraint By George Will
Hurling a compliment at Barack Obama in the hope of wounding him, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has said that his proposals for responding to the economy’s housing-related credit woes put him “to the right of the Bush administration.”
The Vodka Chronicles By Maureen Dowd
John McCain’s saucy mother [...] Read more:Featured
, Articles
, April
Iraqification 2008-04-05 18:27:01 John A. Nagl writes that the long-term presence of U.S. advisors will be vital to the defeat of extremists in Iraq. It could’ve worked in Vietnam, too, he writes, if done earlier:
In Vietnam, the advisory effort got off to a slow start and was too often neglected in favor of United States-only operations. Only after [...]
McCain in Pres-cut 2008-04-05 17:52:49 Following in the footsteps of Barry Goldwater, John McCain
ended his “Service to America” tour with an appearance in Prescott, Arizona. I was able to attend this function, as it is only a short walk from my house to the Yavapai County Courthouse. In the speech, Senator McCain mentioned that it was on the courthouse [...]
John McCain: Reporting for Comedy 2008-04-05 15:24:18 In case you missed it, here’s the Letterman-McCain
exchange on Tuesday’s Late Show. The two segment interview later in the show is all on YouTube.
Note that Paul Shaffer plays the Senator on and off with the Shirelles’ classic “Soldier Boy”.
And what’s not to love about a show that books as its two [...] Read more:Reporting
, Comedy
, John McCain
Keep Iran Out! 2008-04-05 14:57:26 The International Herald Tribune reports Iran’s involvement in the Al-Sadr truce:
Shiite Iran helped end the clashes between Iraqi government troops and al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia for the sake of Shiite unity, said a senior Iranian official who deals with Iraq.
“It is in Iran’s best interests to see unity among Shiite factions,” said the official, speaking [...]
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