Apparently, aside from randomly (or perhaps not so randomly) blowing up those who pray to him, God also likes a fastball: No copies of Playboy or Penthouse are in the clubhouse of baseball’s Colorado Rockies. There’s not even a Maxim. The only reading materials are daily newspapers, sports and car magazines and the Bible. Music …
Archives for June 2006
They Really Don’t Like It
Josh Marshall asks: Have we been wrong about frogs all along? Yesterday I did a post with the oft-mentioned story of how a frog will sit still for his cooking when put in water that is slowly brought to a boil. But TPM Reader EG wrote in yesterday to tell me that about a year …
Refreshing News
ABC has a new poll up, and 86% of the country has more common sense than most of our congressional leadership: In the rift between Congress and the Justice Department, Americans side overwhelmingly with law enforcement: Regardless of precedent and the separation of powers, 86 percent say the FBI should be allowed to search a …
Fahrenheit $85 Million
Michael Moore will live the American dream and see his day in court: A veteran who lost both arms in the war in Iraq is suing filmmaker Michael Moore for $85 million, alleging that Moore used snippets of a television interview without his permission to falsely portray him as anti-war in “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Sgt. Peter …
Deceit and Disgust
More information continues to slowly dribble out in the Haditha mess: The U.S. military investigation of how Marine commanders handled the reporting of events last November in the Iraqi town of Haditha, where troops allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians, will conclude that some officers gave false information to their superiors, who then failed to adequately …
John Solomon Whiffs Again
A few days ago Harry Reid told the AP that Senate rules permit a Senator to accept items of value from home-state government agencies. In fact the rules are less strict, allowing Senators to accept items of value from government agencies of any state. Either way he is perfectly in the clear. So what is …