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"Best of the Web Today's" James Taranto points out this story regarding an Al Qaeda plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Taranto then makes the following astute observation: Is this because the Vatican is too pro-Israel, or because of the troops it stations in Saudi Arabia? Most of us get it. Arab terrorists (or […]

The major networks usually do a passably good job. ESPN and Fox Sports can be hit-or-miss. But the third-level sports networks can really stink it up. I just got done watching the decidedly ugly football game that was San Diego State vs. New Mexico. If the play on the field wasn't bad enough, the broadcast […]

The latest Toles cartoon is a hoot.

I'd been avoiding writing critiques/responses to the lame columns by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently. I'd just gotten tired of his constant, inane carping and he hadn't written anything really ludicrous (for him, that is) ... until today. Krugman decries the stupidity of the national electorate of handing over the executive and legislative […]

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz pointed me to this column by Salon's Joe Conason -- and this damn lie -- a kind that is too common nowadays. Whatever eventually happens in Louisiana, the Democrats have lost control of the Senate. The nation will return almost immediately to the Republican domination of the executive, legislative and […]

A friend of mine, Sean Papiro, has leukemia. He's been through several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation in an attempt to treat it, and the treatments have been mostly unsuccessful. What he needs now is a bone-marrow transplant. Unfortunately, unlike blood-type matches, bone marrow is much more difficult to match. So, this Sunday, November 10 […]

I finished reading Stephen Coonts' latest paperback novel America yesterday. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Coonts' work, the 1991 movie "Flight of the Intruder" was based on his novel. Where Tom Clancy has Jack Ryan, Coonts has Jake Grafton. The reason I enjoy many of today's techno-thrillers, as the genre is commonly […]

I'm watching CSPAN's coverage of Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe Wednesday speech on Tuesday's election results, and I'm thinking -- the guy is smoking crack. He seems just like a little boy who sees something he doesn't like and who sticks his fingers in his ears, shuts his eyes tight and dances around whining "nyah, […]

Iraqi president Saddam Hussein reacted to news of American President George W. Bush's GOP party victory in Tuesday's elections, saying that it was a repudiation of the American "cowboy" president's unpopularity. Saddam noted that the GOP had a slim majority in its Senate and House -- whereas the Iraqi democracy showed that Hussein had the […]

Final results are in and it looks like it will be an interesting four years in the Grossmont Union High School District. The three nutcases won. I'm not sure how much credit/blame to give the local Republican party, but they're going to have egg on their face. *ON A RELATED NOTE* It appears that the […]