Monday, October 31, 2005

You might want to sign this guy.

The Sun Online - News: Red card for tackler, 9

Gist: Four foot tall nine year old kid runs on to pitch during a Premiership game at Everton, slide tackles 6' 180 lb. opposing defender.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Worse than Watergate?

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Plamegate: Worse than Watergate | The Huffington Post


If Rove and Libby are indeed indicted (adding Cheney to our Merry Fitz-mas gift list would just be getting greedy), I believe it will shake up our government in a way we haven't seen since Watergate.

To borrow a phrase from that era, let me make myself perfectly clear: I'm not saying that Plamegate is the same as Watergate. I'm saying it's worse. Much, much worse. No one died as a result of Watergate, but 2,000 American soldiers have now been killed and thousands more wounded to rid the world of an imminent threat that wasn't.

Could there be anything bigger?

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Top 10 Talking Points in the Plame Affair

The WitList: The GOP%u2019s Top 10 Talking Points in the Plame Affair:

"2. We lied our way into a war that%u2019s cost us thousands of lives, $300 billion , and the respect of the civilized world, and this is the worst Fitzgerald can come up with? Sweet!"


Read the rest. Good stuff.

Hammers, Hiltons and Dial-a-Shot

Tao of Poker: A Poker Blog

Pauly. the incomparable poker blogger, explains the origin of some of the poker lingo that has sprung up from poker Blogistan.

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Duh.

Bloomington native reports the news: HeraldTimesOnline.com

Former Faux News reporter David Shuster
He went on to recount his six-year tenure at Fox. "At the time I started at Fox, I thought, this is a great news organization to let me be very aggressive with a sitting president of the United States (Bill Clinton)," Shuster said. "I started having issues when others in the organization would take my carefully scripted and nuanced reporting and pull out bits and pieces to support their agenda on their shows.

"With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing," he said.

"Editorially, I had issues with story selection," Shuster went on. "But the bigger issue was that there wasn't a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up. Management would either look the other way or just wouldn't care to take a closer look. I had serious issues with that."