The Dodgers have traded Sandy Alomar Jr. to the White Sox for a minor league pitcher. Jason Repko is expected to come off the DL and take his place with the team.
That scared me for a minute seeing that headline though. I was imagining the Dodgers giving up on the season and selling off players…
I mean sure, they’re now 4 games back in fourth place, are riding a 5-game losing streak, and in fact are 1-10 since the break, but there’s a lot of time left including a lot of games within the division.
Michelle Malkin was famously doubtful of Julie Myers’ ability to do the job well as the head of ICE, as was I in light of the President’s extremist views on open borders, but Myers is trying to put on a show with a series of raids across industries and states.
Employers of illegal aliens have actually been arrested on felony charges. That’s more serious than some of us were even asking for. But, before I start heaping praise on the Bush administration, I want to see this barrage continued indefinitely. Enforcing these laws needs to be a serious effort, not just an opportunity to boost credibility.
Depending on the source you use, the high yesterday in Moreno Valley was either 110, 114, or 119 degrees, and I’d guess it was toward the high end of that range. What a day to watch Blazing Saddles:
They way you boys are lollygagging, you’d think it’s a hundred and twenty degrees! It can’t be hotter than a hundred and fourteen!
Republicans are pandering to the NAACP but all they’re going to do is make Republicans unhappy AND make it harder on Republican states for the next 25 years.
This is frustrating to actually see them repass the Voting Rights Act virtually unchanged from 1982.
Pearls Before Swine is off the list, for going from making political jokes, to devoting a strip just to lecture about campaign finance.
Buzz off, Stephan Pastis. If I wanted to read conspiracy theories I’d read Mother Jones, not the funnies.
“Sitting in front of the telly.. that’s what you call it right? *snort* the telly?”
This ESPN commentator is so obnoxiously bad…
This American commentator on ESPN sounds so brilliant: “The best you can do with your three darts is to hit triple 20 three times. That is called 180.” Gee, you must have gotten through the 5th grade, doing that 20 x 3 x 3 like that!
At least they do seem to have the Sky guy Sid Waddell (I think) who not only gets really excited, but beyond that actually knows something about darts. Though being used to hearing him from Fox Sports rebroadcasts of Sky darts coverage, it’s strange to hear him actually EXPLAIN things as he does for ESPN and the American audience.
Of course, this whole “World Series of Darts” name and structure is retarded. Let’s take the best darts players around the world, and pit them against US amateurs? Come on. Though I do know why they’re doing it: they’re trying to dummy up some excitement about “anybody” being able to win, as they got with poker.
Law and Order used to be a great show. Now it’s just political grandstanding with a thin veneer of a plot.
I miss Ben Stone.
James Taranto caught the AP in a lie today:
From an Associated Press Washington dispatch:
“We’d love to have a cease-fire,” White House spokesman Tony Snow said. “But Hezbollah has to be part of it. And at this point, there’s no indication that Hezbollah intends to lay down arms.”
The AP headline? “U.S. Opposed to Cease-Fire With Hezbollah.”
They just can’t be trusted.
The Barry Bonds prosecutor failed to get a single indictment of the man from his first grand jury. So, of course, he’s just going to get another grand jury and try again.
How long will this crusade last?