1975 World Series, Red Sox v. Reds. Game Six. A pinch-hit Carbo home run in the eigth to tie the game, then Fisk's shot off the foul pole in the twelth to win.

Nicely done, as usual.

"Conservatives" betray their corporate core when they turn on Bush the way they've turned on everything else that reveals the bankruptcy of their ideas; that's the business model: you start with the answer and devise a campaign to achieve it.

Anything that contradicts the "answer"--even reality--is Wrong, and if you don't like it you can go work somewhere else. Bush will find that even the CEO is not above this mechanism.

Slacking off isn't a bad suggestion--if the wife can get away with it. But that isn't always possible. The first-level boss might be capable of making her life miserable in ways she can't handle.

The real choice here is stay or go. Stay and try not to let it hurt personally, or start looking for another job. That's the solution here. Make time for it--just make time for it. They're out there.

That's the way to go. Bad organizations hold on to people who are afraid to look for something better; the wife or the husband need to either get her out of that company or out of that department. Leave it behind.

The interesting thing in this--to me--is who Libby called after he and Rove decided to smear the Wilsons in the press.

He called Tim Russert and Judith Miller.

"No god means no purpose, no morality"? Why not?

Apparently Mr. Thompson and those like him would have us believe the choice here is between his notion of God--and science--and "moral relativism". Nonsense. An individual doesn't need God in order to behave, and neither does society. Ony those who wish to control others unjustly do.

As for Mr. Thompson's noting that Darwin included of the word "Creator"--with a capital C--in a version of "On the Origin of Species", all this proves is something we already knew: that Mr. Thompson cannot distinguish between matters of personal faith and matters of science. We don't teach Darwin's personal opinions on faith in biology class--because they aren't science.

Thuggishness and incompetence are not mutually exclusive.

Actually, they're mutually dependent.

You see, Jones, the Company is always right. Anyone who points out the Company is wrong is Wrong. You know what happens to people who are Wrong, don't you, Jones? We don't need Wrong people in the Company, Jones. We need Right people--people who recognize that the Company is always right.

I'd hate to think you were the wrong sort of people for the Company, Jones. That would be very bad, for the Company--and for you.

So, come back to work--and life, Jones. Out west the aspens will be shaking in their roots--because even the aspens, Jones, know that the Company is Always Right. Don't let the aspens be smarter than you, Jones.

That's all--thank you for coming in to see me with your concerns. Goodbye, Jones. Give my best to Lilly.

Until Fitzgerald came after her, I didn't know that Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign....[b]ut if I had known the details of Judy's entanglement with Libby, I'd have been more careful in how the paper articulated its defense...

Spare me. We're supposed to believe that all of Washington and half the Times' readership were suspicious of Miller's reporting--but Bill Keller had no idea there was anything to be concerned about?

Please. This mea culpa reads like a cut and paste of all the Times' previous mea culpas. Or mea culpae--whatever. Hollow.

The bottom line is that the Times printed all Miller's disinformation, then lept to her defense. Only now, after she buckled, are they forced to try to rationalize the whole thing.

How about an article exploring the connection between RealDolls and condoms?

Conclusion: there isn't one.

Happy to see the GOP "establishment" voicing their concerns about W--though they seem to have waited til after he tossed them out on their a**es to do so.

It's hard to forget that these are the people who helped him and his "cabal" gain office in the first place. And that they, more than most, knew the truth about him all along.

...it was better than "Cats".

Remind me again...why is our military in Iraq?

In lieu of the indictment against "Scooter" for lying in an effort to cover up the fact that it was he who outed Valerie Plame, will the mainstream media at any time in the near future examine what he was trying to cover up by outing her?

Why is our military in Iraq?

I clearly remember vice president Cheney saying something about a "nexus" in Iraq. Is that what this was all about? Are we fighting a "nexus?

What the hell is a "nexus"?

Brown was kind enough to frequently answer emails from us cranky bloggers. We were disappointed when he bought into the "you broke it, you own it" after-the-fact rationalization for the Iraq war, but we'll still miss him. Cooper won't bring us back to CNN.

Josie & The Pussycats didn't need no stinkin' camp. They came up OLD SCHOOL. And they sewed their own kittycat costumes, too.

Give her a chance to grow up. We don't all start out perfect.

Maureen Dowd may have "[poked] the elder Bush with a stick" but when has she ever "[eaten} his son for breakfast"? Column after column she practically falls over herself sparing W by blaming everyone around him.

The effort this requires is as unintentionally comic as her views on men, feminism, and dating. She clearly lives in her own world; whether it reflects reality or not is, well...not that interesting.