Posted in Politics, tagged Barack Obama, basketball, Bill Clinton, CEO, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, Jeremiah Wright, Pennsylvania, T-shirt on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
The day after the Pennsylvania primary, Obama went back to Illinois to “regroup” and plot the next move in his campaign. I wasn’t in those meetings, but I’m guessing that trotting Jeremiah Wright out to speak at every conceivable forum (Bill Moyers, National Press Club, NAACP event) to showcase his odd mix of egotism [...]
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Posted in Media, tagged bias, Bill Murray, Brian Williams, Edward R. Murrow, Elizabeth Edwards, Keith Olbermann, network news, Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan, Walter Cronkite on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Huffington Post picked up this entry from Brian Williams blog as a way to show conservative bias in the media (later, in a part unquoted, he praises Peggy Noonan’s column this week.) Anyway, I actually thought this was pretty funny, so I’m breaking my own rule about quoting items at length:
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Posted in Baseball, tagged Orioles, White Sox on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night, I posted that the Orioles needed a rainout to turn their short losing streak around…
Well, today in Chicago, they played 11 innings, were tied going into the 12th, then had the game called due to rain. Now all should be back on track tomorrow…
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Posted in Baseball, Media, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Andrea Mitchell, Baby Boom, baby names, Big, Bill Safire, caller ID, cell phone, David Gregory, demography, Howard Kurtz, Jon Stewart, MSNBC, Orioles, pet peeve, post, Secret of my Success, Stephen Colbert, Tucker Carlson, White Sox, Working Girl on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a series of random thoughts from today… some things that I wish, and some things that annoy me:
1. Watching Howard Kurtz talk to Bill Safire on Reliable Sources is like watching someone trying to respectfully quiet his elderly grandfather when he starts talking about life during the depression. That said, as much [...]
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Last month….. [...]
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Posted in Baseball, tagged Orioles, White Sox on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Orioles just beat the White Sox 5 - 1, and are now tied with the Red Sox for first with a 14 - 9 record. Second half of a day/night double header in a few hours.
Plus, we’ve broken not only our 11 - 7 curse, but our rain-out curse. After the first rain-out of the [...]
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Posted in Politics, tagged community development, economic policy, education, estate tax, fair trade, faith-based initiative, income tax, living wage, unions on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Kicked off my wishlist platform yesterday with my thoughts to reform campaigns and elections. Started with that mostly because it seemed like the chronologically appropriate thing to do. I mean, gotta elect leaders before the governing begins. But that’s out of the way now, so I figured it’s on to the [...]
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I’ve put in my time defending all the “silly season” stuff because I like politics. I mean, I enjoy it, I think it’s fun, and I think the act of campaigning and all the little tactics and mini-stories actually do matter when the actual governing begins. I roll my eyes a bit when [...]
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I don’t watch a lot of PBS, but all morning, I’ve been watching that clip of Reverend Wright on Bill Moyers yesterday, and something started annoying me about Moyers. Something visceral. Could not figure out what it was — I mean, I like the guy. But here’s the thing: he kinda looks [...]
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It’s been a couple of news cycles since the Pennsylvania results, and the conventional wisdom dictates that a united Republican Party can simply sit back and enjoy the never-ending Democratic campaign. Well… that “united” party in Pennsylvania only gave 73% of the vote to their presumptive nominee on Tuesday. Ron Paul finished with [...]
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