Bush admits that there was a “miscalculation” about post-war Iraq.
He also didn’t realize that even his own administration has admitted that carbon dioxide emissions (read: cars and factories) are probably the cause of global warming.
Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman (D R)’s wife is posing rather seductively in a recent edition of the Washington Post in order to help her acting career. No word on whether she got the idea from Joumana Kidd.
According to this story, the feelings one gets from revenge are similar to those felt when doing cocaine or seeing a pretty face.
I suppose this changes the maxim to: “revenge is a dish best served when skiing.”
There’s a reason John Kruk has never been tapped for a managerial position.
Anybody who would rather have a shortstop with declining skills and worse than average defensive range than a 3-time defending MVP who is arguably the greatest player ever shouldn’t have a job with ESPN.
Kruk can have Jeter and the half-dozen “clutch” plays that keep getting shown on highlight shows. I’ll take the guys who get it done more…and better.
Computer geeks living in their parents’ basements are getting one more reason to stay there: Playboy is publishing naked pics of a bunch of video game heroines.
Apparently, Bloodrayne (never heard of her) and characters from “Mortal Kombat,” “Tekken,” and “Leisure Suit Larry” will all be included.
As though Lara Croft had that far to go…
Some British MPs are looking to impeach Tony Blair for repeatedly misleading the country about Iraq and “destroying” Britain’s honest reputation. I wonder what Mr. British Intelligence, James Bond, would have to say on the matter?
10 Nobel Prize-winning economists are backing John Kerry. Since economics is a made-up “science” with a higher percentage of Republicans than most “liberal” arts, it’s impressive to see 10 of them agree on something like this.
Jason “It’s Racist!” Whitlock seems to believe that a good chunk of America is rooting against Team USA because they’re black (the coach isn’t, but what does Whitlock care?) and because the country is wholly racist.
Yeah, that must be it.
It certainly can’t be that the team has lost as many games in these Olympics as ALL US basketball teams lost ever, combined.
It can’t be that a bunch of prima donna elitists who won’t even stay in the Olympic Village with all the other Olympicans struggle to beat teams full of players who couldn’t even be 12th men on NBA rosters.
It certainly can’t be that a bunch of millionaires had to be cajoled into even participating in the Games, which should be one of the greatest honors of their lives.
It can’t be that the priorities of the team (don’t get hurt, avoid crowds, play for the contract) are completely different than those of most Olympians, which are to give your all, win, and, in the case of team events, win as a Team.
You want to know why a good chunk of America is rooting against Team USA? Because they aren’t a Team. They’re a bunch of overpaid superstars who are struggling (and losing to) less talented squads. They’re “led” by a player (Allen Iverson) who has been roundly criticized for years for playing selfishly and shooting too much.
Add Kevin Garnett and Shaquille O’Neal to Team USA, and not only would the gold be inevitable, but America would be cheering for us to win, “despite” having an all-black team, Mr. Whitlock. But you know who made the decision not to join the team? That’s right, Garnett and O’Neal. And who’s making the decision to dribble around for 20 seconds and then launch an off-balance shot? Iverson. So before Whitlock criticize white America for its “racist” outlook, maybe he should take a look at the choices some incredibly talented, wealthy, successful black Americans made.
You know what Americans like? Winners. Especially winners who are underdogs. That’s kind of the beauty of capitalism, isn’t it? Anybody can win. In the Revolutionary War, a bunch of rag-tag underdogs beat the crap out of the heavily favored, more talented British Army. It’s a classic story of what America was based on. And now Lithuania and Greece are living it, shoving Team USA’s red coats up their collective behinds.
Bill Simmons argued–and I can’t really disagree–that losing this year may actually help US Basketball in the future. After seeing that we can’t just throw together a bunch of shoot-first, me-first millionaires for a couple weeks every four years, maybe we could actually get the cream of the crop to play for their fucking country again, like we did in 1992. I don’t care if they’re black, white, Hispanic, or whatever. I just care that they care.
Don’t get me wrong; racism is still rampant in America. If you disagree with me, try speaking with a successful law-abiding black man who still gets pulled over by the cops for no reason. But sweet merciful crap, if you’re going to play the race card for something as completely irracial as this, you undermine any future, cogent arguments you may possibly make. And yes, I may have just made up the word “irracial.”
Joe Nathan just gave up runs for the third or fourth time in recent memory, as the Twins lost a game they had in the bag, 5-4.
Please, Ron Gardenhire, why didn’t you intentionally walk Mark Teixeira and pitch to Lance “.315 OBP” Nix? With runners at second and third in a tie game in the bottom of the ninth, doesn’t it make sense to load the bases so a slow grounder could make an out at any base? Doesn’t it? (And no, this is not second-guessing; just like game 7 of the 2003 ALCS, I was questioning this non-move before it went wrong.)
My girlfriend’s stepdad is getting a new kidney!
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Dick Cheney openly disagreed with Dubya’s ideas about a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriages. He’s not exactly warm about the concept, but I suppose it’s a start.