Archive for June, 2005
premature retirement watch?
Yesterday’s adjournment (until October) of the US Supreme Court came and went without a retirement announcement from Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Rehnquist is 80 years old and is battling thyroid cancer, and many court observers anticipate his retirement. Perhaps these folks awaiting Rehnquist’s retirement should heed the words of one of the very few Republican [...]
he can eat crackers in my bed
Tuesday night’s 9-2 win by the Red Sox set a major league baseball record — no other team has gone 70 games into a season without playing an extra-inning game. The Sox extended the record to 71 games this evening as Jay Payton scored the winning run in the 9th inning. Payton played center and [...]
yoi
Myron Cope announced his retirement today after 35 years as the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Cope has a curious, singular, unmistakable voice. He once described his voice as “falling on the public’s ears like china crashing from shelves in an earthquake.” He is a Pittsburgh institution. He invented the Terrible Towel, which is a [...]
waiting for Underdog
I doubt if the Washington Post is reading my blog, but two days after I posted the previous entry about big media’s obsession with missing cute young white women, WaPo columnist Eugene Robinson pretty much nails my thoughts exactly and perfectly coins the terminology: the Damsel in Distress syndrome.
here we go again
Another cute young white woman missing. Another big media sensation. This week it’s Natalee. Last month it was the runaway bride. Before that we had Laci, and many, many more going back to JonBenet, and too many more to name here. And the common thread, of course, is that they are/were all young, photogenic, white [...]
u r lazy and a fucking idiot
Below are two completely unedited email messages from an outside vendor I’m dealing with for work at the moment:
Will u pls send me which flash banners ur talking about because I was checking the site if u mean the banner in the main page it’s a java applet any way if u need something different [...]