Can't lose what you never had

Or so the old timer committee seems to think when it comes to Marvin Miller. I'm sure Pat Gillick is a nice guy, but no one...no one...has a greater impact on the game than Miller.

Back to those civil days of the 18th century

Via FireJoeMorgan, Buzz Bissinger is a remarkably uninformed gasbag.

He adds, “You have blogs that proudly parade around saying, ‘We don’t need no stinking credibility or stinking information — it doesn’t matter what you say or do if you know how to write.’ They cover themselves under the mantle of the First Amendment. But if John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had any idea what the First Amendment would have wrought, they would have canceled it.”

This guy was once a respected, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter.

But he ought to brush up on his American history.

"Callender has been described as ‘the most unscrupulous scandalmonger of the day,…a journalist who stopped at nothing and stooped to anything.…[He] was not an investigative journalist; he never bothered to investigate anything. For him, the story, especially if it reeked of scandal, was everything; truth, if it stood in his way, was summarily mowed down.’ True to his style, he fabricated a series of scandalous stories about Jefferson's personal life, the ugliest of which charged him with having fathered several children by a mulatto slave at Monticello, a young woman named Sally Hemings. Although Callender had never gone near Jefferson's estate, he alleged that this was common knowledge in the neighboring area. He included many lurid details of this supposed illicit relationship among the ‘entertaining facts’ he created for his readers, even inventing the names of children whom "Dusky Sally" had never borne." (Allison, The Real Thomas Jefferson, page 228)

Another reason I am annoyed by people

What is it about air travelers that prompt them to complain about a delay because their plane is being checked and repaired before taking off?

A delay is more irksome than the thought of a cargo door flying off at 30,000 feet.

There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking.

I realize people have connections and all that, but really.

UPDATE: They just announced that today's in-flight entertainment will be "Mad Money (with Katie Holmes!)" Now that's something to complain bitterly about.

Kuhn's in, Miller's not

This is just fundamentally wrong.

Where all our dreams go to die

I guess Rick Moran opposes the DREAM Act because he's eager to go fight in Iraq rather than let all those dark people do it for him in the hopes of becoming a citizen.

Free shit

Time$elect, may it rest in peace.

On a day like this, though, you wish they'd keep them behind the firewall.

Outsourced rant

Doghouse Riley read the same Frederick Kagan op-ed I did on Sunday, but Mr. Riley fumed over it on his blog rather than doing it over the laundry.

Technical difficulty Republicans

Yes, there are a few problems over at "Tech Republican."

Today our Revolution (sic) begins. Tomorrow we fight.

Mind you, not in Iraq.

The site is for "Gen Nexters" who, sadly, never basked in the glow of Saint Ronnie's shiny hair.

Many people over the age of 30 connected with the Republican Party during the years of Ronald Reagan. But for those of us under the age of 30, Reagan is merely someone we admire and study about in history books or through stories our elders tell us. We weren't fortunate enough to see the Republican Party through the lens of Reagan.

If Reagan were alive today, would he use YouTube religiously to connect with us better? [emphasis definitely not mine]

Absolutely.

Not.

Actually, we're unfortunate enough to see Reagan through the lens of the Republican Party, not the other way around.

But let's not hold all that against this fine new addition to the wingnutosphere, where Johnny Ramone lives! Because they ask some important questions:

And if you're reading this, I hope you'll answer these questions:

1. Will you join our movement?
2. Will you pick up a musket and fight in the trenches with us?
3. Will they listen and understand if we show them?

Because if you do, you'll be helping ensure the longevity and continuity of the Party and principles we love. Promise.

Today our Revolution begins. Tomorrow we fight. [all sic]

Do they even listen to themselves?

Silence is golden

Shorter Charles Krauthammer:

Everyone should be respectfully silent about the Virginia Tech massacre. Everyone, that is, except me.