The Wire starts tonight.
And there was much rejoicing.
Shut up, Thymezone.
Archives for 2008
Shorter Hugh Hewitt
With all due respect to the folks at Sadly, No!, a shorter Hugh Hewitt:
“John McCain does not kiss my ass enough while I trash him. Check out my new Mitt Romney pom-poms!”
FWIW, McCain is on Face the Nation, and I think I have come to the conclusion that he is the best of all the bad options for the GOP. If there any chance I would vote for a Republican this year (there is not), it would probably be to hold my nose and vote McCain. Thompson is not serious, Romney is a fraud, Huckabee is a nutter (but he is pleasant and funny and self-deprecating, but still a nutter), and Paul has no chance.
Sunday Morning Thread
CBS Sunday Morning profiled Daniel Day Lewis, one of my favorite actors of all time. Amazing how good he is, really, and oddly enough the CBS folks did not mention his role in In The Name of the Father, which seems particularly relevant these days. Probably didn’t want to be accused of liberal bias or something.
At any rate, the Steelers lost, I am NOT in mourning as I expected this outcome, and now someone else can get curb-jawed next week by the Patriots. Consider this an open thread.
Something Good From Huckabee
He just mentioned an X-Prize-type deal to get a car that reached 100 mpg. I am ALL for that (although I would prefer that gallons of gas were out of the equation altogether)! We need more of that from government. Government is too expensive.The role for government is to encourage business. I am all on board with a government X-prize. Private businesses can spend 1 bilion much more efficiently than government.
Debate Open Thread
Catalogue the embarrassments so that I don’t have to.
Steelers Open Thread
Go Steelers.
I do not feel comfortable about this game at all. I feel the Steelers record is much better than the team really is, and I have found them to be inconsistent and really not that solid of a team. The Jags, on the other hand, are a physical, well-coached, and determined team. I just don’t feel good about this.
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Two minutes to the half. About what I expected. Not how I expected it to happen with the ints, but what I expected in general.
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That was a catch. Bullshit.
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Congrats Jacksonville. Not the Steelers year, and I am not surprised. We just aren’t very good.
Remembering Andrew Olmsted
Like most online I only knew Andrew through his ideas, which consistently showed him to be one of the more mature, humane and independent voices in our digital town square. Andrew’s last blog post at Obsidian Wings asked readers to support a shelter for sexually battered women on a Native American reservation. His last column at Rocky Mountain News described a charity that Olmsted selflessly helped organize to provide toys and food for destitute Iraqi families.
Politically, more than anything, Andrew rejected the lazy thinking that goes with partisanship, yours and mine included. Granted that each of us thinks we have a uniquely informed perspective; we’ll get to that later. More to the point, though I don’t know whether Andrew ever expressed a political preference, and I won’t imply that he did, Andrew’s writing suggests that he would enjoy knowing that on his last day Iowans decisively chose candidates from both parties who embody, imperfectly if better than their rivals, magnanimity and an openness of spirit.
Here is another post on bitterness. I like to think that it would please him to know that in the first major contest of the season voters chose the farthest thing from it.