Enough already about Michael Vick

This guy was simply electrifying on a football field.  He may be again.
He hadn’t developed as a quarterback as well as I’d anticipated.  But he was a winner — the Atlanta Falcons were 38-28-1 with him as a starter, 9-20 without.
So whether he makes it back after two years in prison… we’ll see.   Theoretically he’s [...]

Sonia Sotomayor

 

Seemed to me she was always the front-runner to become the next United States Supreme Court Justice once David Souter stepped aside.  I’m not surprised, then, but I’m thrilled at the actual moment of her nomination.   I feel like I’m looking at my aunt, the one who kept advancing professionally and was always cool but who never seemed [...]

This is not satire

I will simply quote from Sam Schulman’s piece in the upcoming Weekly Standard, in which he argues that gay marriage is the beginning of the end of “kinship”:
The archetypal gay wedding portrait–a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day–is destined to be hung [...]

What we eat — statistic

A beef calf, one which will eventually make your dinner plate, goes from 80 to 1,200 pounds in 14 months — a process that used to take five years a few generations back.
Thanks to quadmoniker over at PostBourgie for mentioning the article.

The CIA needs better liars

I remember long ago reading about how Bob Graham kept detailed records of everything that happened in his life.  Literally.  Seemed kinda sad. 
But that sort of habit can come in handy.
He breaks down the CIA’s assertion that Congressional leaders knew about torturing detainees way back in the early days of the so-called “War on Terror.”
The President, [...]

Paying a premium for being poor

Not a bad piece at all by DeNeen L. Brown in the Washington Post. 
Of course the Internets Celebrities had this covered a while back.

Why did I think Asher Roth looked familiar?

Shrinking balls

“They replaced Ramirez in leftfield with Juan Pierre, a singles hitter who has fewer home runs in his 1,313-game career (13) than Ramirez has in 80 games with the Dodgers (23).”

Never knew this was Ozzy Osbourne

And I definitely wouldn’t have known what someone was talking about if they brought up “Crazy Train.”  But now I do.

The Dilemma of Clarence Thomas

Notwithstanding the circumstances of his appointment and confirmation to the United States Supreme Court almost 18 years ago, Clarence Thomas has been a blight among public officials for more than 25 years. As a jurist and public official, particularly on affirmative action and other civil rights issues, he seems willfully bonkers.  He goes years without asking a question from the [...]