October 24th, 2005
I’ve long admired the Baseball Crank, but this post put him over the top with me.
A perfect, tiny meditation on baseball and fatherhood, done in two paragraphs, with nothing maudlin or off-the-shelf.
0 commentsHey, Yo
October 24th, 2005
Patterico has another of his excellent Postcards from the Ledge, this time about Harriet Miers’s support of racial set-asides. It’s getting harder for the anti-anti-Miers camp to stay coherent.
0 commentsGetting Over
October 24th, 2005
Do you miss Saturday mornings with George “The Animal” Steel and Jake “The Snake” Roberts? If so, this lovingly written history of the WWF’s Intercontinental Title (with part two here) will make your day.
0 commentsWhere's White Power Bill?
October 23rd, 2005
This Drudged story on Lamb and Lynx Gaede is funnier than it is disturbing because (1) the power of KKK-style neo-Nazism has waned to such a degree that its proponents have resorted to trying to sell it through Britney-inspired pedophilia; and (2) because the girls have appropriated the language of New Age relativism in service of their racism. Example:
“We’re proud of being white, we want to keep being white,” said Lynx. “We want our people to stay white . . .”
As if there were a chance that young Lynx might actually become, say, Korean, if she isn’t careful.
If this is state of white supremacy in America, then it’s a happy day for all of us.
0 commentsEagles Talk
October 23rd, 2005
While waiting for a two weeks to watch Andy Reid lose his first back-to-back games in recent memory, Galley Brother B.J. sends in this depressing thought experiment:
I’m thinking about Andy Reid Eagles teams vs. the Larry Brown 76ers teams:
Both teams were built around MVP players (McNabb and Iverson).
Both teams played strong D.
Both teams had to center the offense almost entirely around their MVP to mask offensive deficiencies (No post players & no perimeter shooting vs. no running game and no wide receivers).
Both teams enjoyed playoff success but could never get over the hump/make it to the championship until they pulled the trigger on big moves (Dikembe and TO).
Both big move players had good first years with the team and got the team to the championship game (Note: both post championship runs were defined by injuries).
Both teams lost in the championship.
Both teams then had trouble with their big moves (Dikembe was old & broken down and TO hired Drew Rosenhaus).
But both teams were stuck with their big move players because the big move players had enormous salaries that killed the team cap wise (both salaries were negotiated by the Philadelphia team with the player after the trade). That last similarity isn’t exactly the same because the Eagles are still in good shape salary-cap wise but TO’s contract is big to the point that the Eagles can’t trade or cut him because of the cap hit.
Dikembe turned out to be the Picket’s charge of the AI ’76er teams (high point that led to eventual downfall/dooming AI to never win a championship).
I can’t help starting to think that TO might be the same for the Eagles.
Convince me he’s not right.
0 commentsWhere There's a Will
October 23rd, 2005
It’s okay to admit that George F’in Will makes you hot. This, by the way, is why some of us like elitism.
0 commentsThe Worldwide Standard
October 23rd, 2005
If you’re not reading the Worldwide Standard, you should be because of posts such as this one. Dan McKivergan gives the full rundown on Hans Blix and Saddam’s WMD’s.
0 commentsPut it In the File
October 22nd, 2005
This Washington Times story with all sorts of White House denials.
0 comments
