Nomar Garciaparra was given the last spot on the NL All-Star team today, thus averting a great injustice. Hooray for recognition!
Plus, the Dodgers are in a three-way tie for first place today. Good day for blue!
In Mexico, the President is elected by a plurality of the national popular vote. Well, in their recount, the difference between first and second is 0.57% of the popular vote.
Do we REALLY want to have national recounts, with people in one state accusing each other state of fraud, back and forth, fingers pointing and shouts rising? Or do we want to keep the current system, where each state legislature is entrusted with ensuring that each individual states’ wills are represented?
I know my choice. Count me with the Constitution.
Something that we’ll all probably never know, because it won’t be public for a generation or two: Did we blow up North Korea’s ICBM that failed shortly after launch?
I’d love it if we did, because that would be the ideal scenario: Kim alienates everybody AND gets a taste of US might. But I doubt I’ll live to see the day when the truth comes out. Missile defense is too important to let out of the bag too soon.
230 years ago, a diverse group of freedom-minded people ‘spoke truth to power,’ and literally risked their necks for it. They did so by challenging their elected and inherited government on principle and tradition.
Aren’t we lucky that today, when self-absorbed activists make websites full of personal attacks on our elected officials, that they aren’t risking their necks?
For the holiday I have a Twilight Zone marathon going on now, and tomorrow there’s also a Columbo marathon.
Good choices.
This NBA offseason is heating up. The Lakers came to terms with Vlade Radmanovic, so the Clippers went and got Tim Thomas to agree to a deal.
Neither player can sign for a week or two under the rules, but apparently the deals are done. I wonder who the next domino will be, when the Suns replace Thomas?
Apparently an Israeli soldier was kidnapped, and Israel has responded by arresting PA cabinet members, threatening the life of its terrorist President, and dropping bombs on its government buildings.
Good for them!
$3,500,000,000. That’s the size of the deficit in the budget Governor Schwarzenegger just signed, after a paltry $112 million in line item vetoing, or 0.1% of the total budget.
The question is, though, which would Californians prefer: the deficit, or Angelides’ plans to raise taxes by the billions needed to cover it? We shall see.
It’s almost too strange to believe: President Bush takes Prime Minister Koizumi to Graceland, and the Japanese leader sings and dances.
What is it with US/Japan relations? GHW Bush gets sick with one Japanese leader, another tries his hand at Elvis impersonation with GW Bush. Or maybe it’s not Japan, and instead it’s the Bushes that inspire this oddity?
According to NBA.com via Sports Illustrated, Kobe wants the Lakers to sign Sam Cassell from the Clips. I can see how that would work: All these draftees come in to prepare for the future, while Cassell helps the team win some games now.
I imagine it’d be devastating to Clippers fans to watch their team MVP go to the Lakers though, just after getting home court advantage and coming within a game of the Conference Finals!