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I haven't written anything about Al Gore III's arrest for allegedly speeding and possessing pot and a variety of prescription drugs -- mainly because I agree with the good captain that it's irrelevant to any larger issues of public policy. What held greater interest for me was how the media would handle the story -- […]

Usually I agree with Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Israel and nothing else. Well, now Dershowitz and I agree on the fate of Lewis Libby too. This was entirely a political case from beginning to end. Libby's actions were political. The decision to appoint a special prosecutor was political. The trial judges' rulings were […]

Presidential hopeful John Edwards got quite a bit of flak a few months back when he spent $800 of campaign funds on two haircuts. Today, The Washington Post tells us the rest of the story. For four decades, Joseph Torrenueva has cut the hair of Hollywood celebrities, from Marlon Brando to Bob Barker, so when […]

I wish I knew the name of the color commentator ESPN had doing the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, because the man is a Grade A, World Class moron. Just about every color commentator in every sport suffers from logorrhea. Heck, it's practically a job requirement. They compare the starting running back for the whatever […]

Have a safe and enjoyable 4th.

You can cut the hypocrisy with knife. Ms Clinton, a frontrunner in the Democratic race for the presidency, said she was incensed by the move. "What we saw today was elevating cronyism over the rule of law. And what we saw today was further evidence that this administration has no regard whatsoever for what needs […]

A Philadelphia cop got a lot too full of himself and a deputy district attorney failed an inteligence test when they arrested and then charged, respectively, Anthony Riley with singing in a public park. Riley, 20, had faced a three month sentence after loudly singing "A Change is Gonna Come" in Rittenhouse Square in downtown […]

Peter Hartlaub, the editor of The Mustang Daily when I was doing my two quarters as a reporter on the paper, has a great column in today's San Francisco Chronicle on the dwindling right to set off small explosives to celebrate the 4th of July. This country was founded on blowing stuff up, and 231 […]

Today I turn 35 years old and there's no words of wisdom or assorted platitudes that come to mind, just a line from a Garth Brooks song: "I'm much too young to feel this damn old." As always, gifts to mark this solemn occasion can be delivered in the form of cold, hard credit cards […]

From today's editorial on the Libby commutation on the "conservative" San Diego Union-Tribune editorial page. Libby – and Cheney, too – were highly reckless in leaking the name of CIA official Valerie Plame as part of a payback scheme aimed at her husband, an administration critic. Apparently no one was following the case closely. There […]