This gripe is two days old, but still…
We got screwed in the South Korea game. Period. It was the worst officiated and most biased game of soccer I have ever seen in a World Cup match. Period.
John Cole started Balloon Juice early in 2002. Those who have followed along know that this has been quite the journey.
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This gripe is two days old, but still…
We got screwed in the South Korea game. Period. It was the worst officiated and most biased game of soccer I have ever seen in a World Cup match. Period.
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Andrea Harris has yet ANOTHER site re-design.
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It seems silly and redundant to keep saying how great Will Warren’s posts are, because they are all fabulous, but this tribute to the Yorktown, her crew, and the workers who rebuilt her prior to Midway is just outstanding. Go read it.
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Go put money in Ken Layne’s tip jar.
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In the dog eat dog world of blogdom, my crisis and career induced hiatus from blogging has put me in the unadmirable position of being dropped from the link-love sections of numerous blogs. All of which means I have to whore for hits again, which is demeaning and awful, but not the least bit below me.
BTW- William Quick (aka Dailypundit has a new URL).
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The More Things Change…
If you are as tired of the smarmy banter coming from our Eurotrash friends, here is some commentary from P.J. O’Rourke abut the Israeli Palestine issue, written back before 1988. The piece is title Among the Euro-Weenies, and in the segment I am posting here, he is having a discussion with his radical London friend Meg.
“There is,”” said Meg, “at the back of the American psyche the feeling that the American way is best.”
As opposed to what? As opposed to living in seedy, old, down-at-the-heels Englan with an eighteenth-century class system and seventeenth century plumbing? Or as opposed to lining up for pita-bread ration cars in a half-assed African sandlot run by a fanatical big mouth with a dish towel on his head?
“What do you think we should be doing?” I asked Meg.
“Sitting down in a really serious way to solve the Middle East problem is what Reagan should be doing.”
“What if it won’t solve?” I said. “I know the source of this terrorism is the Israeli-Palestinian problem. And that’s a place where two wrongs don;t make a right. But it’s also a place where two rights don;t make a right.”
“The Palestinian problem has to be treated in a much more serious way,” said Meg.
The Europeans are great ones for solving problems by taking them more seriously.
It goes on and on, but I think you get the hint. Although Hosni Mubarak, de facto leader of the virulently anti-semitic and anti-American Egyptian press just says that Arafat needs more time.
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