So on Thursday he said that "last night" was divine intervention.

His daughter's surgery was Wednesday morning.

His big shot was Wednesday night and his team won.

So the "Lord" cares about a basketball game? More than his daughter's health?

"At least Bowen's various kicks and clips and undercuts are performed in the service of playing defense."

Bullshit.

However dirty Horry's foul was, Nash was going to get up and be ready to play in the next game. Bowen intentionally threatens players' seasons every time he "defends" with his kicks and undercuts. It is literally dangerous play and should be treated just like it is in hockey and soccer.

Warning-suspension-banishment.

I caught most of the Jemele Hill web chat before ESPN put it behind a pay wall. It was shockingly awful. Either she just can't get her point across in writing (inexcusable in a journalist) or her thought process is at best chaotic, incoherent and juvenile.

They were right to kill Deadwood. Regardless of who was at fault, the third season was so bad Wu's pigs wouldn't have choked it down.

The World Bank has never been a reality based organization.

The "Washington Consensus" dogma is so ridiculous and malicious it could have been written by Falwell.

To figure out if the dimensions of Yankee Stadium helped Ruth amass his numbers you need to look at how many home runs per year were hit in each ball park. Just tracking road team home runs would help control for big slugging teams (like the Yankees of that era). Obviously at that point the home team's pitching efforts would have a large impact, but over a few decades that should even out.

Just because Ruth only hit 7 more home runs at home than on the road doesn't mean that the stadium wasn't designed for the long ball. It could just mean that Ruth would have otherwise hit less home runs at home. Bonds has hit more home runs on the road (375) than at home (371), though few would disagree that Pac Bell Park's design helps him.

He clearly thinks we could learn something from their "keep-it-simple-stupid" techniques. He probably also thinks that we have a "blade gap".

Not feeding the troll hasn't worked. Now it's time to try feeding it Ipecac.

His first and second points really could help cut down on gas prices. A big part of why oil prices are dropping while gas prices are rising are mysterious, Enron-esqe, refinery shutdowns and pipeline delays. Vertical integration puts both the delivery systems and the retail outlets in that hands of the same corporations.

As for the Clear Air Act enforcement issue, gas companies claim that a large part of the problem their having in effectively supplying the country is reformulating their gas stocks to fit the numerous "boutique" fuel compositions that various state laws require. What do you want to bet that Energy Department officials as loosened their testing of said compositions over the past, say, 6 years and 4 months?

If you were a running a gas company, under an administration that had the hots for you, wouldn't you jack up your prices, not change your fuel to comply with regional laws, and then claim that changing your fuel to comply with regional laws was causing the price increase? If you wouldn't then your tenure at the company might not last that long.

-the only candidate who might have at one point baked cookies in a tree.

Image matters. It's the second most important thing, right behind funding. It isn't fair or right, but it is true.

While it might be reasonable for the director to not reveal Heigel's character's internal abortion debate, the idea that her baby-daddy-to-be wouldn't at least raise the issue as a possibility, even just as a gettin-ta-know-ya topic before they were inextricably linked, is ridiculous and screams self-, or studio-, censorship.

So what kind of spider was it?

@tiberious

Which nation are we at war with?

I really wish Schussel would illuminate how she came to her "conclusion" about the study.

I imagine it went something like:

If each daughter a Congressmen has makes him more likely to support reproductive rights...

and

If I can write whatever the hell I want because my conservative fans and fellow conservative bloggers are never going to call me on my logic...

then

Liberal Congressmen produce slutty daughters.

Asking Romney about whether or not his children are serving in the military is a legitimate question. It's worth knowing exactly how much he has at stake when he supports the "surge", or when he says that invading Iraq was the right thing to do.

The fact that his kids aren't in the military is fine. It just makes him hard to seriously, like Bush, when he talks about the sacrifices of the war, and "completing the mission".

Honestly I'd be even more creeped out by him if some of his kids were currently serving. It's one thing to be a lying hypocritical republican politician eager to send other people's kids off to die for self-serving reasons. That's par for the course in this country. Sacrificing your kids on the altar of your political aspirations would be almost..... biblical.

That's not a good thing.