1. It started — like my Fedcourts class — at 4, and I set the old Explorer 8000 to save it for me. So, let's go. Chris Matthews is asking the questions. The subject is the economy (so let's see who tries to leaven the dis…
So I was just hanging around at home, trying to get some reading done, and I see reports predicting hailstorms -- hail 4 1/2 inches in diameter -- baseball size! I have never seen anything close to baseball-sized hail. And I don…
This just happened: A man tried to jump into Pope Benedict XVI's uncovered popemobile as the pontiff began his general audience Wednesday in St. Peter's Square and was wrestled to the ground by security officers. The pop…
So says Baseball Crank , who calls himself "a pro-life Reaganite conservative." His reasons: 1. We Need To Win The War.... 2. We Need To Win The Election.... 3. Leadership Matters.... 4. We Can Hold The Line In The Cour…
"...away from the zany antics of the 1960’s that got in the way of doing a better job with my stepbrother, Jack. He played baseball with me, made sure I did my homework on time, took me to basketball practice and did it all …
Well, it's bad to get engrossed in such an obvious, easy topic, but here 's the article, and here 's the Metafilter discussion. I'm less interested in the plainly stupic lyrics than the more specific mistakes, li…
"No one is more opposed to using foreign law than I am, but I'm darned if I think it's up to Congress to direct the Supreme Court how to make its decisions." Let's have a response from the congressional Sc…
Vatican officials criticize the rich countries of the world for luxuriating in excessive health care. We expect far too much, we overconsume, as the rest of the world goes hungry for the most basic health care: "While milli…
Why not begin with the national anthem? It is American Idol. And it's at least as momentous as a baseball game. Is this the beginning? Aren't we at least a quarter of the way through? Well, that first quarter was the red…
Poet or bloviator? Maureen Dowd is drooling over Kerry: he's a poet! Okay, my grandma swooned over Eugene McCarthy because he wrote poetry . (Go ahead, click on that link, you can still be the first person to review his boo…