After reading this piece, I am re-thinking my position on abortion.
What a disgusting human being.
Archives for July 2004
Ricky Williams
This is old news, but here is my 2 cents:
Ignore everything you’ve read and heard.
Ricky Williams did not retire.Call this breaking news, a scoop, this just in, or any other hackneyed media phrase you can conjure.
Just know this: Ricky Williams did not retire.
He quit.
Exactly. Williams gets the nod for most self-centered athlete in the history of the Universe. How he could wait until now to do this to his teammates is reprehensible and inexcusable. You don’t do that to people who are counting on you.
While we are talking about football, congrats to Coach Cowher:
Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher signed a two-year contract extension Monday — the second time since 2001 he has agreed to a new deal after his team missed the playoffs the preceding season.
The extension, which carries through the 2007 season, is expected to keep Cowher’s salary competitive with those of the game’s highest-paid head coaches. Cowher’s current deal pays him $3 million per season, and team president Art Rooney II said the coach was given a raise in his new contract.
Cowher agreed to his current contract, which runs through the 2005 season, after the Steelers rebounded from consecutive losing seasons by going 9-7 in 2000 but still missed the playoffs.
The 47-year-old Cowher has a 115-76-1 record in 12 seasons, with only three losing seasons. His seven division titles are the fifth most in NFL coaching history, and the Steelers have reached the playoffs 12 times under Cowher despite missing them four of the last six seasons.
Not long before my beloved Steelers take the field.
9/11 Commission
I have to admit that I am pleasantly surprised with the 9/11 Commission Report- it has exceeded my expectations so far. I guess thta is not difficult, because after watching the preening and posturing of Gorelick and ben Veniste, I did not expect much. I underestimatd them.
At any rate, Gary Farber has some comments.
Well What Do You Know
I see that Ken Layne has re-emerged after spending a year going all Buddy Holly on us, and has started blogging again. Before you get confused, Welch is the one with the goofy glasses- Layne looks like a younger Steve Earle. Which reminds me- Welch is blogging up a storm, too.
I suppose I should be all pissy for Layne leaving me in the lurch for a year, especially after his first real return post is this stream of conciousness screed against all bloggers telling us how we have let him and the medium. I am not- welcome back.
Andrew Sullivan Takes Psilocybin
Check out this tongue kiss between Sully and the Kerry campaign:
I’m still somewhat in shock at the first night of the Democratic Convention. I kept thinking I was at a Republican convention. Tightly scripted, elegantly choreographed, seamlessly on the centrist message of war, unity, maturity and judgment. Foreign policy was front and center; faith was showcased; military service was held up as the ideal; prudent leadership was touted in a time of “peril,” in Hillary’s word. I wonder if they can keep this up. But I’m amazed they’ve tried. I’ve been writing for months now that Kerry’s most effective message would be that he’d conduct the war on terror with more allies and more wisdom than Bush. But I never actually believed he’d be canny enough to do exactly that. But he has!
I guess I watched a different show…
*** Update ***
Andrew Sullivan is practically a one-man cheering squad for the first night of the convention. Weird. He sounds like a guy who very desperately wants to believe in Kerry.
Does this mean that David Brock is a Republican again? My head hurts.
Day 2 of the Convention
Apparently, a large part of today’s proceedings in Boston will be the lionization of the senior Senator from Massachussetts, Ted Kennedy, for all of his years of service.
Yesterday would have been Mary Jo Kopechne’s 64th birthday, and it was 35 years and nine days ago that Ted Kennedy left her stranded in the bottom of a canal to drown in order to save his political career.
The Speeches
I really can’t comment on the Gore/Clinton/Clinton speeches last night, because I didn’t watch them. After watching Jimmy Carter lecture me on foreign policy (really- what Jeff said), I decided to view something less absurd and threw in ‘Starsky and Hutch.’
I have looked at some of the text of the speech, and it seems to me that the recurring theme from all of them was not leadership, but tax cuts. It seems like they mentioned the tax cuts over and over and over again. I sure hope they keep it up, and we can get Kerry really on record as in favor of raising taxes. If you remember, even Bill Clinton was afraid of a campaign based on raising taxes. His solution was to simply lie and promise tax cuts, and then, of course, never deliver.