The post in which I implore the major league baseball owners to look Scott Boras in the eye and to channel Nancy Reagan..

Please, please, please,,,just say NO.
This is about the madness surrounding Alex Rodriguez who is now peddling his considerable baseball wares to every major league team (well, every major league team if you count the Dodgers, the Angels, the Cubs, the Red Sox and the Yankees as every major league team*).  He’s a damn talented player [...]

Those bastards stole the day

My dad was born on 9/11/1926.   He died in 1986 and although I still miss him and would like to send a hearty ‘up yours’ to the damn cancer that took him out, I am glad he didn’t have to see 9/11/2001.   Until that horrid day, 9/11 had always been a specially wonderful day for [...]

Your shock is our awe(some) opportunity!, or, flat taxing clear down to Plaquemines

Naomi Klein writes for the Guardian U.K. and has a blog called ‘Truthout‘. After researching post-disaster recovery effort she discovered that the Milton Freedmans of this world are using disasters to radically and quickly implement free-market doctrine in a place that was previously either not receptive (pre-Pinochet Chile’) or where ‘we’ suddenly had [...]

This story makes my blood boil

Iraq corruption whistleblowers face penalties
Cases show fraud exposers have been vilified, fired, or detained for weeks
If the Bush administration wants to claim at least one inch of moral highground or ethical leadership, the President and all his men (and women) should condemn the treatment of those folks who were brave enough to speak out about [...]

Bud Selig is a dipwad

For those of you who don’t know (and maybe don’t care), Selig is the commissioner of baseball. He’s been presiding over my favorite sport for many years, including the grand steroid era, when Barry Bonds hat-size grew and Mark McGwire’s arms took on the appearance of Popeye post-spinach. Home run records were obliterated. [...]

Dick of the Decade Part II

Read the following paragraph carefully. It’s really not subtle, but one might forget we live in a nation of laws and that no one person is above the law. The paragraph concerns torture and what should or should not be allowed by representatives of this country:
The vice president’s lawyer advocated what was considered [...]

Dick of the Decade

They say that by middle age a man’s face is a reflection of his character.

I give you Dick Cheney. His arrogance seeps through. The perpetual sneer is testimony to the respect this man has for the American public and for democratic transparency. I never hated Bush. I don’t much [...]

$afety Fir$t in the Bush administration, or, shake shake shake, shake Baroody

Would it be too freaking much to ask the Bush administration to actually appoint people who actually believe in the mission of the agency to which they are appointed? Or say, had some damn EXPERIENCE working for the cause to which the agency is theoretically devoted?
Take the case of Michael Baroody, Bush’s appointment to [...]

The power of Kirking, or, J.L. Kirk - look what you did..

The story is well-known by now. Kat Coble and husband go to ‘headhunter’. Headhunter (J.L. Kirk) wants the big bucks to just to help with the headhunt and they want the bucks up front AND they resort to high-pressure tactics reminiscent of one of those ’special opportunities’ presented in a cheap hotel meeting [...]

My post is gone, but JL Kirk is still a bully

I HAD a post with a LOT of links to bloggers who have written in support of Kat Coble/Tim Coble with their battle royale with JL Kirk and Associates. Kirk is a headhunter company whose head should be handed back on a platter. If bloggers ranging from Instapundit to Aunt B have [...]

Can the RIAA smell the Brylcream*, or, trouble in paradise

I’m sitting here in Centennial Park on an incredibly beautiful, if not perfect day. I’ve got the breeze, the sun, the water fountains, the kids feeding the ducks and broadband courtesy of our city fathers (and mothers). I’m listening to my favorite radio station on the planet - Radio Paradise. You [...]

Who’s your sugar daddy now? or, You wanna see WELFARE..

I’m often on the other side of the aisle from Glen Dean and his paleo-libertarian philosophy. For instance, total market-place dominance of the health-care industry can’t work efficiently because the customer has no real choice, nor do they have any real method of cost-shopping. You better have insurance if you wanna survive, and [...]

Pete Rose: Worst person in the World*

I love baseball. No secret. I hate anything that gets in the way and makes the game suspect or unwatchable. Things that get in the way: steroids, HGH, Tim McCarver blathering, and gambling on baseball by people who have a stake in the outcome of the game, i.e. players, managers, front [...]

Pump it up, or how many times can we screw New Orleans?

President Bush promised that New Orleans would be safe in time for the 2006 hurricane season. Thank God, the season was relatively mild, because much of the readiness for the season was based on the installation of these special water pumps that would take water from the city and pump it into Lake Pontchartrain.
One [...]

Anybody in Building 18 need some ice?

According to ABC News ‘Blotter’, the army contracted with a company called IAP Worldwide Services to administer medical support services at Walter Reed Hospital.. The really fun part of the this privatizing is that IAP’s bid was actually higher than the REAL cost that the army estimated it would take to run the [...]

We don’t get too many Violent Femmes in these parts, or, you DON’T want fries with that?

Roughly two weeks ago, I heard the anthemic Violent Femmes tune, ‘Blister in the Sun’ used as an intro to a Wendy’s commercial. Considering that the Femmes music, and particularly THAT song have been the musical equivalent of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ for teenage (and beyond) angst, AND they are actually good, AND considering [...]

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (to screw you and then leave)..

Those pesky homeowners in Mississippi who had their homes destroyed by Katrina AND who were lucky enough to have had their homes insured by State Farm….those pesky ungrateful home owners who had the nerve to SUE STATE FARM for denying their claims finally got some relief after 18 months…but the relief had to come though [...]