As I mentioned before, I've been reading Rick Atkinson's "An Army at Dawn." One anecdote that Atkinson relates is how government censors edited letters home from the troops. Journalists and other liberal conspiracy theorists who regularly decry government limitations on media reporting from the battlefield during Operation Iraqi Freedom should look at just how far […]
More evidence (as if it was necessary) that Hollywood isn't that thrilled about Republicans. The Wall Street Journal ran an article (link for subscribers only) about the Academy Award-nominated Best Foreign Film "Osama," about a girl who poses as a boy to support her family under Taliban rule. A film about Osama arrived at the […]
You won't see it on March 15, but the original Dear Abby column sent over the wires for that date contained this letter: WIFE MEETS PERFECT MATCH AFTER HUSBAND STRIKES OUT DEAR ABBY: I am 34 and have three children. My husband, "Gene," and I have been married for 10 years. He is greedy, selfish, […]
I'd love to get a job where I can just recycle old blog posts over and over and over ad infinitum. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman (whose Nobel Prize in economics is never going to come if he's really this stupid) has trotted out another column -- a virtual carbon copy of one nearly […]
President Bush has unveiled his first television ads of the 2004 campaign (you can see them here). Two of the three ads show some a couple of seconds of extremely tame 9/11 images. Predictably, Bush opponents -- including some who are relatives of 9/11 victims -- have come out decrying the ads as insensitive. Get […]
New York Times Public Editor, responding to e-mail criticisms of an incident last month where a quote was recycled and the individuals party affiliation changed, has addressed the issue on his blog-type thingy. Birds hit with this single stone included the acknowledgment that both quotes came from one interview; that the two articles were about […]
National Review Online published a couple of excellent pieces on the California Supreme Court's decision in the Catholic Charities case.
Well, they were pretty easy for me, but former Georgia Bulldogs assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr. makes j-school exams look like particle physics. Here's Harrick Jr.'s Final Exam for his "Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball" course in the fall of 2001: 1. How many goals are on a basketball court? a. 1 b. 2 […]
So I'm looking at my referrer logs and one thing leads to another which leads to this. I must confess that I don't often venture into the far left side of the blogosphere because there is a plague of Bush Derangement Syndrome which is not conducive to rational thought. That having been said, Sean023's (why […]
I had no problem voting early Tuesday afternoon using the new touch screen machines. I talked with the poll workers, and my precinct was one of several across the county that had problems with the new machines. Unlike some others that were delayed by several hours, my Escondido polling site was able to get the […]