I'm not good at anniversaries. Or holidays for that matter. Five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, I don't really want to spend my time looking backward. CNN is streaming that tragic day's coverage over the Internet in real-time, but I've little desire to watch it. I've got the TV tuner card […]
The New York Times resident Fig Tree, public editor Byron Calame, has a piece in today's paper on photographs used during the recent Hezbollah/Israeli conflict. I'm not that interested in the main subject of his column, but this bit at the end got to me. A final thought on morality. Some supporters of Israel, who […]
USA Today columnist Andrew Kantor continues to make journalists look bad over on his blog. Kantor has posted two updates (here and here) on his blog and closed the comments on his original post after racking up 101 comments -- most of which properly take him to task for what can only be described as […]
And I'd like to take this opportunity to note No. 4/5 Cal Poly SLO's victory over Weber State. After trouncing Division II foe Fort Lewis last week 44-0, Cal Poly followed up with another shutout with yesterday's 17-0 victory. That's right. Two weeks in and ZERO points allowed. Go Mustangs!
If you're a reader of Confederate Yankee or Little Green Footballs, you no doubt recall the Class B brouhaha over Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell's defense of fake news. (See here and here.) Those articles got Confederate Yankee searching and he came up with a reason that Mitchell might be sympathetic to fake news […]
Some stories just write themselves -- from the Lompoc Record.
Andrew McCarthy of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has an excellent article in The New Criterion ripping the Supreme Court for taking over the other two branches of government. This is why, for example, we have never—at least until Hamdan—had a one-sided treaty with an international terrorist organization, whereby jihadists get to keep killing […]
The headline was made famous by Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" show after he was informed that one of his predictions for the outcome of an experiment was woefully inaccurate. The editors of the New York Times seem to have taken Savage's attitude to heart when it comes to the former ambassador Joseph […]
I finally went out to see the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" flick this afternoon -- I'm on vacation for the next couple weeks, so posting will be whatever it turns out to be -- and I must say that I'm rather underwhelmed. The special effects were excellent; lots of action; lots […]
One of the names often mentioned as pundits speculated who President Bush would name to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was J. Harvie Wilkinson of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Wilkinson authored an op-ed piece in yesterday's Washington Post cautioning against efforts to amend state and the federal constitution to prohibit […]