Archive for April, 2009
Nationals: Epic Awfulness
Now:
I freeze the DVR of the Nationals game.
15 minutes ago:
Adam Dunn gives the Nationals a 4 run lead with two innings to go.
3 minutes ago:
The Phillies drive their second run of the 9th, currently have 2 outs, 2 men on.
2 minutes after Now:
I think they can’t blow another game, and resume watching
5 minutes after Now:
Walk, [...]
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Tags: MLB, Washington Nationals
So what do you say when a Politician’s ill-informed posturing appears to be in danger of costing people their lives:
John Nichols writes in The Nation that Collins and her fellow flu funding opponents — including Karl Rove — “were just playing politics, in the exceptionally narrow and irresponsible manner that characterized the Republican response to [...]
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Tags: Susan Collins, Swine Flu
Government Isn’t Optional
One thing I’ve heard conservatives say over and over that the public sector couldn’t exist without the private sector. This just isn’t the case. Here’s another Matt Yglesias post on FedEx CEO Fred Smith on the public and private sectors
Why we’re even sitting down with the Memphis City Council to ponder the total elimination [...]
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Tags: Capitalism, FedEx, Fred Smith, Health Care, Markets
Here’s MY on the national GOP’s position on Specter vs. Toomey.
Dave Weigel notes that Senator Jon Cornyn (R-TX), in charge of helping GOP Senate candidates, is being surprisingly friendly with former Rep. Pat Toomey who’s mounting a challenge-from-the-right to Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA). Dave notes that “it becomes much, much harder to hold the [...]
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Tags: Arlen Spectre, Pat Toomey, Senate
Best Prospect Or Biggest Bust?
See this Buster Olney column for a good discussion of the Washington Nationals and wonder prospect Stephen Strasburg.
Strasburg’s leverage will be limited somewhat by the draft process, of course, but the reality is that his talent coupled with the pressures on the team with the No. 1 pick — the Washington Nationals — is [...]
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Tags: Scott Boras, Stephen Strasburg, Washington Nationals
Worst. Year. Ever?
The usually astute Optimo writes in to say the problem with the National is their players belong in AAA:
Seriously. I’m going to the game with some school friends tomorrow against the Marlins, and my first thought was, wow. Nothing like a game between a team with a AAA payroll and a team that should be [...]
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Tags: Washington Nationals
Tea Parties
I had a bunch things I wanted to say about the Tea Party protests that I figured I’d just pull together in one post.
It’s frustrating that so many people compare the current tea bags protests to the peace protesters before the Iraq war. There are a variety of ways the two groups are objectively different, [...]
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Tags: Anti-Tax, Astroturf, Protesters
So I see Texas has decided to get cute and start talking secession. Naturally the process of jettisoning the rest of the country has a few potential road blocks.
So what would Texas look like as a foreign country?
It would be the world’s thirteenth largest economy — bigger than South Korea, Sweden, and Saudi Arabia. [...]
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Tags: Republic of Texas, Texas secession
I’m watching hockey right now.
I suppose worse things have happened to people.
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… When the Nationals are this awful. Worst start in baseball, and hardly a bright spot in the whole mess. I know the season is just getting started and it’s probably more important that a small handful of players perform well then the whole team, but seriously this is embarrassing. We’re well past the point [...]
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Tags: Washington Nationals
Blogged Closed For Tax Season
Hoping to return by tomorrow. My taxes aren’t that complicated (knock on wood) so I should return tomorrow.
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Week in Charts
As documented in fivethiryeight.com, It’s been a bad week in charts for conservatives that plan to be alive in 2020 and beyond.
Young people are smoking up..
Socialism is the new “it” ideology.
And Gay Marriage is on the March.
And the worst of it is Obama’s polls numbers remain high.
OK socialism stills polls poorly, but given there [...]
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Tags: Marijuana, Gay Marriage, Socialism, Kids These Days
Brilliant Noise
Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
These are real images of the sun.
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Tags: NASA, Naval Research Lab, Semiconductor
Organize Around This Chart
The Obama administration prepares people for more of the dread pragmatism on climate change:
In one of his first interviews since being confirmed March 20 as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Holdren said a group of Cabinet-level officials is trying to establish a set of principles to guide the climate [...]
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Tags: Carbon emissions, Carbon emissions auctions, Climate Change, Global Warming, Obama Energy Policy
Endangered Red Snapper
I know it’s wrong and it’s not how I actually go about making my dining decisions, but I when read about how an animal is becoming endangered my first thought is that I should eat some before it’s gone or really expensive.
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Tags: Food, Mark Bittman, Red Snapper
I hate to say it, but John Tierney is right. At least about NYC’s plan to reduce salt intake by half.
The city’s health commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, has enumerated the results. If the food industry follows the city’s wishes, the health department’s Web site announces, “that action will lower health care costs and [...]
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Tags: Food Policy, John Tierney, NYC, Salt, Salt Reduction, Trans Fat
The Departed Dirty Words
The Departed is on TNT right now.
Never before has a profanity laced tirade been so missed.
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Tags: The Departed
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