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Saturday, September 25, 2004

Giants vs Dodgers Whew! The Giants won a classic today, an absolute battle that had a lot of action and intensity. Pedro Feliz had the game of his career, capping a 4-hit game with a grand slam home run in the bottom of the 8th to break a 5-5 tie. What a hoot. I've been to a lot of Giants games, and even a lot of Giants-Dodgers games, but this was a classic, ranking right up there with the day at Candlestick where Joe Morgan hit a homer to knock the Dodgers out of first place in the division. A great afternon, beautiful weather at the park. (It's always fun to listen to the people around you: this guy sitting behind me was one of those know-it-alls you see all the time at the ballpark. He gave a play by play throughout the game, predicting what's coming up. Trouble is, his batting average at those predictions was pretty bad. And get this: when the Giants failed to score in the bottom of the 7th, he said the game was lost and then left! Missing one of the classic Giant wins of the ages.) 6:08:33 PM  Permalink  comment []

Why Do They Hate Us? Why Do They Hate Us?: " Possibly because we keep killing them. Via Laura Rozen comes an eye-opening Knight-Ridder story on civilian casualties: Operations by U.S. and multinational forces and Iraqi police are killing twice as many Iraqis - most of them civilians - as attacks by insurgents, according to statistics compiled by the Iraqi Health Ministry and obtained exclusively by Knight Ridder. According to the ministry, the interim Iraqi government recorded 3,487 Iraqi deaths in 15 of the country's 18 provinces from April 5 - when the ministry began compiling the data - until Sept. 19. Of those, 328 were women and children. Another 13,720 Iraqis were injured, the ministry said. Apparently one man's counterinsurgency is another man's dead brother. And guess which side that man's going to fight for? As a hint, let me suggest it's not the side that killed his brother. In other news, we're left once again to ponder the awesomeness of Knight-Ridder and the relative crapitude of the more prestigious competition. Can't K-R get into a bigger media market? Or can't one of the bigger papers hire these reporters? " (Via matthew.) The argument you hear time and time again is that if we hadn't gone in, then Saddam would have killed more than we did. Maybe so, probably so. But the thing is, does that matter to the guy whose brother was killed by us? I doubt it. Would it matter to you? Oh, well, your brother's dead, but think of all those other people who would have died otherwise? 6:02:56 PM  Permalink  comment []

Still Sliming Away Still Sliming Away: "CALVIN TRILLIN STILL SLIMING AWAY (Karl Rove & Co. knock off Paul Simon's "Slip Slidin' Away") Still sliming way, still sliming away. To get our guy elected, what we do is still sliming away. first, John McCain, a prisoner of war. Our callers said he didn't have his marbles anymore. They said that prison had turned him quite strange— Not like our man, who used dad's clout to stay safely home on the range. Still sliming away, still sliming away. To get our guy elected, what we do is still sliming away. John Kerry faced Charlied—just luck he returned. So..." (Via onegoodmove.) 9:50:26 AM  Permalink  comment []

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