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I'm not sure how HH can be expected to write a column about television, and not cover reality TV, especially given the situation with the writer's strike. Most television out there, reality or not, is trash. So I can't figure out what all you anonymouses expected from a television column -- you're hoping to read her thoughts about only what YOU, anonymously, think is good television? You all just sound like cultural highbrow anonymous snobs.
Man up. Jesus.
I'm a Nats semi-season ticket holder, so I was kind of surprised to read that their uniforms (which I don't particularly like) prominently featured gold and black. I clicked on the link. Well, I guess that's what some people would call prominent. But that's their Sunday uniform, MLB rules dictate that Sunday uniforms must be complete abominations. I don't know that their regular jerseys have any gold.
Those fake three dimensional numbers just look ridiculous to me.
What struck me, musically, during the Sopranos' closing diner scene was how things started with the great Little Feat tune (what the cool kids listened to in 1978-79), and Tony changed it to what the not so cool kids were listening to. Just like high school.
What Paul said is right. What MLB has done could be called brilliant if it wasn't so transparent (which it is, since every columnist and blogger today is writing about it). This whole thing went public in late January, DuPuy takes six weeks to figure out a way to not make him/MLB look like the bad guy, figures, hey, everyone hates their cable company, voila, those of us that live in apartments without balconies are screwed...
Geez, can't imagine why the author can't get a date.
I'm an election official -- poll worker -- in Virginia, and our training is much better than what "Lucy" reports in Ohio. It involves real people going through a very professional program and packages of materials, and giving examples of real-life situations and answering questions. Sounds like there's a county in Ohio that wasted their budget on a dumb in-house movie. Ridiculous.
This is my fourth election, all the others have gone smoothly, and I know this one will, too.
Grieve doesn't say in this article that Fordham used to be Foley's chief of staff, which I think is the key aspect of the story. Did he know something was odd with his boss? Of course. Did he do anything? No. So now he sees his career and his finances (he'll need a lawyer) pretty much fucked, so of course he's going to cover his ass.
I have to think that there's a lot less job security for the average high school football coach in Texas than for the average high school math teacher. A couple of bad years of trig classes isn't going to get a teacher fired, but a couple of bad seasons will probably get the coach canned.
So Dick Wadhams, whose name I will not make any jokes about, said that the press "literally" put words in Allens mouth? I followed the link to Wadham's letter, where he wrote: "Literally putting words into Senator Allen's mouth that he did not say (by speculating, defining and attributing meanings and motives that simply are not true), the Webb campaign and the news media seeming worked hand-in-hand to create national news over something that did not warrant coverage in the first place." (Great piece of prose there, Dick.)
I guess not only have I mispronounced the work "mohawk" all these year, I've also misunderstood the meaning of the world "literally."
Allen's a joke. His whole schtick with the cowboy boots and his man of the people act is all bullshit. He grew up in California and his father was an NFL head coach. Dumb cowboy boots does not a Virginian make, and it's embarassing that the majority of voters in this state have been conned by him. And Wadhams needs to take some English classes, or get an editor.
Though I appreciated the article, this whole "Is Bush an Idiot" thing just doesn't set well with me. Is he any dumber now than when he was initially elected? I don't think so. Despite what he wants us to believe, this is just a way for guys like Scarborough to jump off a sinking ship. Prior to August, 2006, if a liberal counterpart of Scarborough would have centered a TV show around the topic of Bush being an idiot, Scarborough and his ilk would have labeled that person a bad American.
So if Bush is an idiot, what's that say about the people that, until recently, have been telling us how great he is?