Posted 9/27/2003 10:33:54 PM by Edward Driscoll
AN AUTHOR SO GOOD, I MARRIED HER! My wife has an essay in Tech Central Station on the joys of GPS.

Posted 9/27/2003 07:31:54 PM by Edward Driscoll
LATTE TOWN REVISITED: Jonah Goldberg visits Burlington, Vermont, and unlike David Brooks, does not like what he sees.

Posted 9/27/2003 06:59:16 PM by Edward Driscoll
"BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER--pick any two": Stephen Den Beste has a long, detailed post on the end of NASA's Galileo probe.

Posted 9/27/2003 05:30:24 PM by Edward Driscoll
EXPECT THE EXPECTED: Chris Carter writes that many desperate NFL teams will fall again tomorrow.

Posted 9/27/2003 05:26:41 PM by Edward Driscoll
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER WRITES that Ted Kennedy is losing it.

Posted 9/27/2003 04:56:54 PM by Edward Driscoll
GEORGE PLIMPTON, the great Paper Lion author, passed away yesterday at age 76. Plimpton has written lots of other great books of course. He also edited a superb collection of essays and reminisces on Truman Capote, which is also well worth seeking out, if only to see brilliant editing in action, forming and shaping what could otherwise be an amorphous collection of material. UPDATE (9/29/03): In a nice (if obviously unintended) capstone to a wonderful career, Plimpton joined a reunion of the team he commemorated--and played for--in Paper Lion less than a week before he died.

Posted 9/27/2003 04:48:27 PM by Edward Driscoll
"GODS THAT FAIL": "Dr. Manhattan" writes about Edward Said, who died this week at age 67. See also this essay from February 2002 by Jonah Goldberg on the book that put Said on the academic map, Orientalism.

Posted 9/27/2003 04:04:05 PM by Edward Driscoll
DOES THE LEFT HAVE A PATRIOTISM PERSECUTION COMPLEX? John Hawkins has some thoughts on the subject.

Posted 9/27/2003 03:59:53 PM by Edward Driscoll
HAS CRUZ CRASHED? Is Bustamante a bust? There's no end to the silly headlines, but the Brothers Judd have some serious thoughts (and links) on the state of his campaign.

Posted 9/23/2003 06:40:21 PM by Edward Driscoll
IS THERE A NEW ALBUM IN THE WORKS BY THE WHO (or at least by Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry, their two surviving members)? Blogcritics has the details on what's new with the Who.

Posted 9/23/2003 02:57:54 PM by Edward Driscoll
NO SEX PLEASE MORE PENICILLIN PLEASE, WE'RE BRITISH: This is London reports, "Huge rise in sex diseases".

Posted 9/23/2003 02:47:20 PM by Edward Driscoll
BLOWOUT: Did anybody see the Raiders get their black and silver butts handed to them last night? Shanahan seemed to have his Broncos totally prepared, both in terms of "strategery" and in terms of having them completely geeked up to play the hated Raiders. The Raiders' win last year against the Broncos on Monday Night Football set them on a run towards the Super Bowl. It will be interesting to see if they can rebound from yesterday. UPDATE: Skip Bayless writes, "It's way too early to write off the Raiders. But it isn't too soon to wonder in print if Rich Gannon has gone Kurt Warner."

Posted 9/23/2003 02:41:33 PM by Edward Driscoll
"BLEAK" RAISES: Virginia Postrel notes that economic writers reporting "bleak" pay raises seem to have forgotten how inflation works--and how it influences pay raises.

Posted 9/23/2003 11:17:43 AM by Edward Driscoll
GORDON JUMP DIED: A terrific actor who's best known for being Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson on WKRP In Cincinnati and for being the lonely Maytag repairman in their long-running series of commercials passed away at age 71. Orrin Judd has some thoughts and memories, including what may be one of the great lines ever on a TV sitcom, delivered by Jump.

Posted 9/23/2003 10:58:53 AM by Edward Driscoll
LOST BIRTHRIGHT: Robert Bartley of the Wall Street Journal explains why angry Democrats "hate Bush as much as Republicans once hated FDR".

Posted 9/23/2003 10:52:44 AM by Edward Driscoll
ON AGAIN, FOR NOW: AP reports that the 11-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the California recall for October 7th. But will the ACLU appeal to the Supremes? UPDATE: Lawrence Solum writes, "For all intents and purposes, it seems highly likely that the legal challenge to the recall election is over". Hope he's right. ANOTHER UPDATE: "the American Civil Liberties Union said it would not appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, removing the final legal roadblock to the election just two weeks away". Showtime, folks! YET ANOTHER (and possibly final) UPDATE: Heh.

Posted 9/22/2003 04:39:07 PM by Edward Driscoll
CLARK NEVER CALLED KARL: Matthew Continetti writes, "Wesley Clark says he would have been a Republican if Karl Rove had returned his phone calls. White House phone logs suggest otherwise".

Posted 9/22/2003 04:26:54 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE CYNICISM OF HOWARD DEAN: Writing in National Review Online, John J. Pitney Jr. has some thoughts.

Posted 9/22/2003 04:21:18 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE CYNICISM BEHIND CLARK: Andrew Sullivan has some thoughts. He also links to Clark's "Issues" page. (Note: I hate to spoil the punchline, but as of the time of this post, the issues page currently says, "Coming Soon". Watch for it to be updated or deleted as a result of the heavy traffic from Sullivan's site.) UPDATE (5:53 PM 9/23/03): Drudge has linked to Dean's empty issues page as well, thus ensuring it will be updated and deleted very quickly.

Posted 9/21/2003 02:23:04 PM by Edward Driscoll
AMERICA'S MUSLIM BACKLASH: This incident, combined with this one, are very, very worrisome events. How does the Army screen its recruits for militant islamofascists, without upsetting the PC crowd, who (to coin a phrase) already loathe the military? UPDATE (9/23/03): More Muslim problems for the military at Gitmo.

Posted 9/21/2003 01:01:24 PM by Edward Driscoll
BRITAIN'S MUSLIM BACKLASH: Virginia Postrel has some thoughts.

Posted 9/21/2003 12:16:38 PM by Edward Driscoll
SAY HELLLLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND! Roger Ebert looks at Scarface, 20 years after its initial release.