Peter Gammons (Flickr/Trev Stair) Sagely baseball writer Peter Gammons, asked by MLB Network analyst and former big-league pitcher Mitch Williams whether he will now vote for Mark McGwire’s induction into the Hall of Fame: I think it’s going to be … Continue reading
Today’s attempt to make my head explode comes courtesy of Stephen Hayes and William Kristol at the Weekly Standard: Continue reading
As of right now, the McCain campaign is nothing more than a firehose of lies. Period.
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and countless others from both parties have spoken highly of John McCain, praising his honor and dignity. I’ll take it on faith that McCain may have once possessed those qualities… but not anymore. Continue reading
Memo to Sen. Dianne Feinstein: thanks a whole big bundle.
Too well I recall the morning last November when I read your stated intention to vote in favor of confirming Michael Mukasey as U.S. Attorney General. It made what would have been a pleasant breakfast at a local café go down quite a bit less easily. I narrowly averted embarrassment, because your characterizations of Judge Mukasey as independent-minded and repulsed by the idea of torture were such stuff as spit-takes are made on. Continue reading
When I was a kid I would read and re-read the two or three volumes then in circulation of The Book of Lists, a repository of trivia compiled by the producers of The People’s Almanac. Thus began my career as … Continue reading
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