The Poorman has his end of the year awards up for you to vote on, but I might suggest that there needs to be a late entry to the Soggy Biscuit Category. Apparently, Obama visited the troops in Hawaii, and due to one sentence in the ABC write-up, our brave keyboard commandos have concluded that …
Archives for December 2008
Home Again
The puppies are cuter in person: Also, a reader sent this in, which seemed to fit the Holiday moment: Maybe I will have something to say later on, but for now, this is it. Surprisingly enough, Tunch seems to have behaved while I was gone.
A Gift To You
The greatest Christmas song ever: Not sure how many of you watch a Christmas Story every year, but I always catch it every year. This year, my sister gave me this as a gag gift. The standing rib is in the oven, and the smell is killing me.
Screwged
I have to admit- only the Bush administration can raise incompetence to an art form: President Bush changed his mind on Christmas Eve, pulling back a pardon he had extended a day earlier to a Brooklyn developer at the center of a Long Island real estate fraud case and adding a bizarre twist to the …
Merry Christmas
Hope you all have a good one.
Christmas Eve Open Thread
Made it home in one piece, and the puppies are so adorable that you just want to lie on the floor and roll around with them. Ginny is really quite the card, and is simply fearless. Lots of pics when I get home and have my editing software handy. Some random thoughts: 1.) I ate …
Compare and Contrast
Matt Taibbi, a few years ago, discussing Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat: This would be a small thing were it not for the overall pattern. Thomas Friedman does not get these things right even by accident. It’s not that he occasionally screws up and fails to make his metaphors and images agree. It’s that …