Monday, October 03, 2005

Here's the must-read Ahearn column from yesterday. "Alston bristled at the mention of St. James Homes." 8:36:30 PM   permalink   comment []

Instapundit and Atrios on the Miers nomination. 1:48:15 PM   permalink   comment []

I never liked the Braves when I was a kid. They were terrible and Atlanta meant nothing to me. They got good when I was an adult, but I felt honor-bound not to jump on the bandwagon, although I really liked their pitchers. But I think the statute of limitations has expired, and what they've done in winning their division every year since Elijah was born is pretty amazing, so now I should be allowed to like them. I'm warming up to them, and if they get bad again for a while I might become a real fan. Going back much further, I hated the Cowboys. That was natural, they played the Colts in the Super Bowl when I was eight, my dad was a Colts fan from his med-school days in Balmer, ipso fatso QED. But I liked the team they put on the field in the early '90s, Aikman and Emmitt and Irvin, and I laughed at their lawless off-field antics because the NFL is such a tightass league. But I could still hate Jerry Jones, so that was OK. Now they are so bad, and it's been so long since I hated them in the Landry days, that I might start liking them, too. But probably not. 10:50:22 AM   permalink   comment []

Michael Christopher thinks the expensive renovation of War Memorial Auditorium may be worth the price. 10:22:00 AM   permalink   comment []

Via Eric Muller, some conservative displeasure with Bush SCOTUS pick Harriet Miers. 8:29:51 AM   permalink   comment []

The calm before the storm: we're having this little blog-and-journalism thingy in four days, 300 people expected each day...Sue and Shaka have been doing the last minute prep work...a lot of people have worked hard to make this happen, including Teresa Styles and her team at A&T, Jay Ovittore on the music, Ben Hwang as all-round go-to guy...but without Sue, it simply Does.Not. Happen. Greensboro owes this woman, big-time. 8:09:23 AM   permalink   comment []

DarkTimes: Krugman ledes, "Federal aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina is already faltering on two crucial fronts: health care and housing. Incompetence is part of the problem, but deeper political issues also play a crucial role...conservative senators, generally believed to be acting on behalf of the White House, have blocked bipartisan legislation that would provide all low-income victims of Katrina with health coverage under Medicaid." More: "These days, both conservatives and liberals agree that public housing projects are a bad idea, and that housing vouchers - which help the poor pay rent - are much better...But the administration has chosen, instead, to focus its efforts on the creation of public housing in the form of trailer parks..." "...Mr. Bush can't avoid helping Katrina's victims, but he doesn't want to legitimize institutions that help the needy, like the housing voucher program...As the misery of the hurricane's survivors goes on, remember this: to a large extent, they are miserable by design." Herbert: "The wheels have fallen off the cart in Iraq, and only those in the farthest reaches of denial are hanging on to the illusion of an American triumph over the insurgency." More: "Talk about a cruel joke. On the same day that Senator McCain faced off with General Myers, more than 100 people were killed in a series of car bombs in a town north of Baghdad; five U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi; and the American general in charge of U.S. forces in Iraq, George Casey, admitted before the Armed Services Committee that only 1 of the Iraqi Army's 86 battalions was capable of fighting the insurgency without American help." 7:59:13 AM   permalink   comment []