Posted 1/24/2004 02:53:43 PM by Edward Driscoll
BIASED ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING IN ACTION: Nick Gillespie of Reason links to this Cincinnati Enquirer story and notes that the real news (stricter EPA analysis) is buried so as to write a scare tactic first paragraph. Because let's face it--a tougher EPA under President Bush just doesn't fit the meme, right?

Posted 1/23/2004 09:15:31 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE SECOND WAVE OF E-TAILERS: Michael Jennings of Samizdata writes that when it comes to the next generation of e-businesses, Britain leads the world. Colonial pride forces me to say I'm not sure if I agree with that (although apparently, The Economist does), but Jennings does have some interesting thoughts on the subject.

Posted 1/23/2004 05:44:39 PM by Edward Driscoll
NEW REVIEW: I have a review of The Jaz-Mobi Project's CD online at Blogcritics. It's very eclectic stuff.

Posted 1/23/2004 04:46:17 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE ONCE LOST MARS ROVER has been found. Scott Ott has the "details".

Posted 1/23/2004 04:30:55 PM by Edward Driscoll
HELMUT NEWTON, 83, KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT: Curious as to why AP decided to mention that the celebrity photographer was Jewish in his obit.

Posted 1/23/2004 03:52:12 PM by Edward Driscoll
MMMM....RIBS: Orrin Judd quotes from the "Remarks by the President to the Press Pool", live from the Nothin' Fancy Cafe, Roswell, New Mexico. The title sort of reminds me of the Monty Python "Live from the Grill-O-Mat Snack Bar" episode, and the whole thing reads just as surrealistic. Like President Reagan's episodes with Sam Donaldson, Bush really loves making these guys look like stuffed shirts, doesn't he? UPDATE: Eugene Volokh compares the president's exchange (which, as Orrin notes, the White House had the chutzpah to upload onto their site) to a can of New Shimmer.

Posted 1/23/2004 11:09:25 AM by Edward Driscoll
BOB KEESHAN DEAD AT 76: Keeshan played the gentle Capt. Kangaroo for decades on TV--I grew up watching him, and you probably did too. Philadelphia television in the early 1970s also had the Captain's counterpart from a different branch of the service: Capt. Noah, as well as Captain Kirk, who began his endless reruns on Channel 17 in 1970. Good rank to reach if you wanted to be on TV!

Posted 1/23/2004 10:37:06 AM by Edward Driscoll
PRESCIENT: Florence King demolishes Hillary's mystique--almost 12 years ago.

Posted 1/22/2004 06:54:47 PM by Edward Driscoll
MODERNISM: Is it due for a comeback? And if so, what would Mies van der Rohe think about today's practitioners?

Posted 1/22/2004 06:37:21 PM by Edward Driscoll
CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER: National Review's Corner-ites are praising Peter Jennings for his handling of tonight's Democratic primary debate in New Hampshire. Start here, and then scroll up. UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan also praises Jennings' performance as debate moderator.

Posted 1/22/2004 05:50:16 PM by Edward Driscoll
STARBUCKS A GO-GO: For such a commercial success, Starbucks really is balanced between the worst of all possible worlds when it comes to the anti-global crowd. The coffeehouse chain had its birth in the 1970s in Seattle (the site of numerous recent anti-global riots), and it has just opened its first branch in Paris, where the anti-global crowd occasionally firebombs American chains like McDonald's.

Posted 1/22/2004 05:13:22 PM by Edward Driscoll
JUST RECEIVED A REVIEW COPY OF Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life, a handsome coffee table book due out in April (you can pre-order now on Amazon of course). Watch for my review on Blogcritics soon. I'm way behind on material I need to review for Blogcritics, but I'll also have a review of Steve Thomas' Jaz-Mobi Project CD in the not-too-distant future. Very interesting stuff--sort of John McLaughlin and Pat Metheny-style jazz guitar meets space-age digital multitrack recording technology.

Posted 1/22/2004 04:31:37 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE TIMES, THEY ARE A'CHANGIN': After his "I want to kiss you" snafu with Suzi Kolber on ESPN's Saturday Night Football back in December, Broadway Joe Namath is undergoing counseling for alcohol abuse. UPDATE: Speaking of which, "Prosecutors say 49ers' Garcia had blood alcohol level nearly three times legal limit".

Posted 1/22/2004 04:23:07 PM by Edward Driscoll
JUST UPDATED THE ESSAYS PAGE OF THE SITE: Both Tech Central Station and Blogcritics now have automatically updating pages which list all of an author's work for each site, so I'm now linking to them, rather trying to keep my list up to date. And I added links to my newsletters for Electronic House magazine. The Articles page is really out of date, but that's going to be a much bigger job to make current. Hey, I write a lot of stuff!

Posted 1/22/2004 03:31:14 PM by Edward Driscoll
IS DVD-A DOA? Eric Olsen and I, and some of the readers of Blogcritics have some thoughts. And don't forget to check out my Electronic House newsletter on the topic.

Posted 1/22/2004 02:40:14 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE ATLASPHERE HAS SOME INTERESTING QUOTES by Camille Paglia on Ayn Rand.

Posted 1/22/2004 11:23:16 AM by Edward Driscoll
CRISIS MANAGEMENT: Lee Harris's latest column in Tech Central Station had these thoughts about the primaries and Dean:

This last week, unfortunately for his electoral prospects, Howard Dean revealed the stuff that he was made up and did so in a matter of minutes; and -- fairly or unfairly -- many of those who watched his performance found themselves convinced that they now knew what Governor Dean would act like in a moment of genuine national crisis, and were not assured by the insight that had been inadvertently given them. We should keep this in mind whenever we reflect on the seemingly irrational method by which we as a people select the man to fill the most important office in the world. For the real purpose behind the superficially bizarre rituals of an American election -- caucuses, primaries, televised debates, concession speeches -- is not to provide an exercise in democracy; it is to test the inner resources and character of the candidates, and to do this by exposing them to a grueling series of artificially induced crises that simulate those that he will ultimately have to face as president. The American electoral process is, in a way, like the simulated testing done by the manufacturers of automobile tires -- we want to know which ones are reliable before we put them on our cars, rather than afterwards, and that is why the American people tend to respond so harshly to those candidates who fail to make the grade during this our national period of candidate testing. Iowa was Dean's first crisis -- and he blew it; and in doing so he lost far more than the Iowa caucus: he lost the reputation as a man who could be trusted to act calmly and rationally in the midst of adversity. And that is a lesson that the American people will not quickly forget. We do not live in a world where we can afford to.

What happens next? Take it away, Mark Steyn.

Posted 1/22/2004 10:48:20 AM by Edward Driscoll
KIND OF LIKE SHOUTING FIRE IN A CROWDED THEATER: Francis J. "Frank" Flynn, an assistant professor in Columbia University's business school, sent letters out to 240 restaurants claiming that he and his wife were served a dinner that made him violently ill. Flynn was conducting a study on how businesses respond to complaints. A court has ruled that the restaurant owners who received the letter can sue the Columbia Professor--and Columbia University itself.

Posted 1/22/2004 01:07:23 AM by Edward Driscoll
GREAT QUOTE by Arnold Beichman, a a Hoover Institution research fellow and a columnist for the Washington Times who turned 90 years young in 2003:

How come newspapers have science writers who know some science, and food writers who know something about food, and best of all an M.D. like the New York Times's Lawrence Altman who can write about medicine with authority? But when it comes to war and terror, anybody and everybody is sent to cover the story with a minimal knowledge of the subject of their assignment. So what do we get 'human-interest' stories and dumb 'gotcha' questions at headquarters press briefings.

You know, the rudiments of journalism can be learned very quickly, not to mention, on the job. TV shows frequently employ ex-generals when there's a major conflict. Why can't newspapers hire ex- or even currently serving military men as well? You know...like these folks. Or these. Or this fellow? Just a thought.

Posted 1/21/2004 10:53:28 PM by Edward Driscoll
BLINK! One of these things is not like the other:

On Jan. 18, the National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina E. Olson, sent a report to Congress that identified "sole proprietor tax noncompliance" as one of the "top two" problems faced by taxpayers. Ms. Olson then went on to recommend that "Congress enact a withholding requirement on payments to independent categories of nonwage workers." In other words, the "taxpayer advocate," whose job description, in part, is to protect small business from being taxed too much, is saying small businesses need to be taxed more and also suffer an increased paperwork and compliance burden.

Richard W. Rahn, the author of the piece, is calling for Olsen to be immediately removed, because she doesn't understand her job. I couldn't agree more. When I was a Registered Investment Advisor in the mid-1990s, it not only seemed like the paperwork increased every year--it did. And the fastest way to screw up a recovery is to ask small business to pay more taxes and do more paperwork. Robert Novak once wrote that Republicans were put on Earth to cut taxes. Olsen needs to get with the program.

Posted 1/21/2004 05:41:04 PM by Edward Driscoll
PAYTON'S PLACE is apparently with the Dallas Cowboys: Don Banks of Sports Illustrated writes:

Dallas Cowboys assistant head coach Sean Payton never received a contract offer to become the Oakland Raiders next head, and on Wednesday the Cowboys announced that Payton will remain with the organization.

As Fanball.com writes:

Only in Oakland. Not only was Payton the only candidate to interview twice with Al Davis, but he fit the Al Davis profile for a new head coach almost perfectly. Apparently, the enigmatic Davis either reversed course at some point or negotiations with Payton's camp did not proceed well. Either way, we look forward to the fallout from this fiasco, including where Davis turns next to fill the last remaining coaching vacancy.

Of course, as Skip Bayless noted a little while ago, Bill Walsh--tanned, rested, and ready... UPDATE: Davis gave a lengthy press conference earlier today.

Posted 1/21/2004 04:15:17 PM by Edward Driscoll
IS HONORING A PROMISE RENEGING ON IT? Reason's "Hit & Run" blog is often hit or miss for me (although that's certainly true of many group blogs I read--and no doubt, for many readers of our blog as well). In this post, Brian Doherty, an otherwise extremely sharp writer, is upset that the federal government is calling the 30 year bonds they issued in 1979--mainly because current interest rates are so much lower than the 9 and 1/8th percent interest the '79 bonds pay. Doherty fumes, "Sorry, but who knew that promise they made 30 years ago would gets so damn expensive to honor?" But as his more thoughtful readers note, that promise included a call provision. One not-as-thoughtful reader commented, "There used to be no virtually no risk premium, because there was no perceived risk [on T-Bonds]. No more." Well, what's your definition of risk? For most investors of government debt, their biggest fear is the risk of default, which is why they invested in T-Bonds, instead of stocks or corporate bonds. And unlike corporate investment, there is no risk of default on US debt. But all investments involve trade-offs. You can't avoid all risk, you can only decide which risks you want to minimize. With Treasury paper, after adjusting for inflation, there's very little chance of having any decent return on your money, with the very rare exception of those who have hung onto their say...1979 Treasury bonds which paid 9 and 1/8th percent interest--in a year when inflation was 11.3 percent. Which is why, to my mind, the Federal government retiring old, expensive, inflationary-era debt is a very, very good thing. But to Doherty, and many of Reason's readers, they're reneging on a promise--even though call provisions are part of that promise. Oh, and as to what happened to all that inflation--click here.

Posted 1/21/2004 03:46:03 PM by Edward Driscoll
GREASING THE ENDORSEMENT: Tim Graham links to a Chicago Sun-Times story on how Dean essentially bought Carol Mosely Braun's endorsement. To be fair, I suppose that wouldn't be the first time such a deal was brokered.

Posted 1/21/2004 02:38:23 PM by Edward Driscoll
HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE--WHO WEAR KAFFIYEHS: Back on September 12, I wrote:

Reading between the lines, you just know that Howard Dean really digs the Hamas.

This photo of Dean dancing up a storm does little to get me to change my mind. Incidentally, because Monday and Tuesday were rather hectic here at EdDriscoll.com HQ, I never got a chance to link to Dean's Iowa meltdown speech. So, here's an audio clip. Watch for samples of Dean's YEAAAAARGH!!!! scream to appear in recordings everywhere. UPDATE: Oops--I hadn't seen any photographic coverage of Dean in action during his rant. Now it all makes sense!

Posted 1/21/2004 02:33:13 PM by Edward Driscoll
HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE--WHO SMOKE GAULOISES: Roger Simon comments on a recent Nation article by Brian Klug titled “The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism”, and writes:

Ah, but Mr. Klug is probably saying, that can change. Really? Well, I suppose anything can (and probably will) but right now my personal experience is to the contrary. I’m not sure the extent Mr. Klug likes to do research in the street, as they say, but as a novelist I find it helpful. On my recent trip to France to gain background for my next book, I was taken to Montfermeil, one of the infamous suburban cité ringing Paris where the Moslem immigrants live. These are the housing projects where the police dare not go, even to prevent gang rapes, and where the obscenity “Nique ta mere, juif!” is scrawled on the walls. (Note it says “juif”—Jew—not “sioniste”—Zionist). One of the interesting (though not surprising) things in this horrible and sad environment is the ubiquity of satellite dishes. They are tuned, of course, to Al Jazeera, but more often, I was told, to Egyptian television, where one of the most popular shows is the serial version of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Now that’s a prescription for ethnic comity—millions of unemployed Moslems sitting in squalid apartments in Paris watching the famous racist libels of the Tsar’s secret service on television. Is that a “new” anti-Semitism? I guess that depends on what your definition of “new” is and finally—who cares? What matters is that it is there and that it is growing. What also matters is that this statistic--these “millions” of unemployed Moslems--is not much of an exaggeration. And their numbers are growing, without their views of Jews—or anyone else—changing. The French are only now trying to come to grips with this—and obviously are having great difficulty. In their defense, it’s not simple. In any case, those who “idealistically” advocate the Jews accept a binational state in the Holy Land ought to consider, putting it gently, what the outcome would be for them of sharing their society with a Palestinian culture in its present state. You might as well turn around and walk back into the gas chambers.

Or as Charles Krauthammer succinctly wrote, almost two years ago, "In Europe, it is not very safe to be a Jew".

Posted 1/21/2004 01:38:08 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE WAR AND THE DEMS: Stanley Kurtz has some thoughts, in an interesting "Corner" post.

Posted 1/21/2004 11:52:37 AM by Edward Driscoll
ROGER L. SIMON: A "metropolitical" man.

Posted 1/21/2004 12:47:01 AM by Edward Driscoll
FASTER, PLEASE: "Thousands of Iraqis March to Demand Elections".

Posted 1/20/2004 11:19:37 PM by Edward Driscoll
AMON'S LAW* IN ACTION: Check out this 1968 quote, from Citizen King, a PBS documentary on Martin Luther King:

"Martin Luther King fled the scene. He took to his heels and disappeared, leaving it to others to cope with the destructive forces he had helped to unleash. And I hope that well-meaning Negro leaders and individuals in the Negro community in Washington will now take a new look at this man who gets other people into trouble and then takes off like a scared rabbit." --Robert C. Byrd, Democratic Senator from West Virginia, by way of the Ku Klux Klan.

Here's an audio clip of Byrd speaking the above quote. (It's about 48 seconds in, if you want to skip Rush Limbaugh's introduction.) Why is this man still in office? And why is he receiving an award from the American Historical Association? And check out this fawning tribute by the Wheeling, WV News-Register.

Posted 1/20/2004 10:59:29 PM by Edward Driscoll
DID "JUNK SCIENCE" make John Edwards rich?

Posted 1/20/2004 10:21:57 PM by Edward Driscoll
WILL THE REAL BEAVIS please stand up?

Posted 1/20/2004 10:04:38 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE PROBLEM WITH SOAKING THE RICH: Virginia Postrel looks at California's tax data--and does not like what she sees.

Posted 1/20/2004 10:00:41 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE STATE OF THE STATE OF THE UNION: Here's a quick round-up:

John Hawkins lists his favorite lines. Glenn Reynolds has lots of thoughts and links. Stephen Green Blogged it in real-time--by popular demand! "The Corner" Blogged it as well--start here, scroll up. Or start here, and scroll down!

And follow everybody's links for a complete SOTU-palooza! UPDATE: And for those with ADD, Reason's "Hit & Run" Blog has condensed versions of the speech, and the Democrats' response.

Posted 1/20/2004 09:46:45 PM by Edward Driscoll
MICHELLE MALKIN LOOKS AT the weird world of Gwyneth Paltrow. As Hollywood celebrities go, it's not Michael Jackson weird. But it's awfully sad.

Posted 1/20/2004 03:32:59 PM by Edward Driscoll
IT'S OFFICIAL: According to The Dallas Morning News, Cowboys assistant head coach Sean Payton has agreed to become Al Davis's next whipping boy Oakland's next head coach.

Posted 1/20/2004 03:06:52 PM by Edward Driscoll
BIG PICTURE POLITICS: Robert Moran looks at several of the angles the media missed yesterday.

Posted 1/20/2004 02:47:34 PM by Edward Driscoll
IS IT TIME TO REPLACE YOUR CD PLAYER? Possibly. But it's definitely a good time to read my latest newsletter for Electronic House magazine on the subject--because it's now online.

Posted 1/20/2004 02:29:36 PM by Edward Driscoll
OH YEAH, THAT LIBERAL MEDIA: Michael Graham looks at how ABC spins the president's approval rating. Meanwhile, Andrew Sullivan writes, "Can we even trust the [New York Times] polls any more?" And Jack Shafer looks at how Howard Kurtz's story on media donations to politicians (click here for our post on the topic) misses the real story. Shafer has a few rewrite suggestions for Kurtz. Speaking of rewrite suggestions, Steven Den Beste looks at a recent Washington Post story with a variety of anti-war, anti-Bush, pro-Saddam cliches in it and writes:

They say, "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity", but we seem to have gone beyond any possible stupidity now. Have we reached the point where we can assume there's a conspiracy to spread a big lie? And where we can safely dismiss the opinions of anyone who repeats it?

We can't dismiss them--but fortunately, we can--and do--correct them.

Posted 1/20/2004 02:15:21 PM by Edward Driscoll
"HAVE THE DEMOCRATS GONE SANE?" David Frum asks, adding, "There are some 600,000 Democrats in Iowa, and they may be some of the most liberal Democrats in the country. And yet when the time came to cast a ballot, not even they could stomach the destructive opportunism of the Dean campaign".

Posted 1/19/2004 06:07:36 PM by Edward Driscoll
STEPHEN GREEN IS CAUCUS BLOGGING (via his TV and PC): No word yet on how much Absolut such a gig takes to get through it.

Posted 1/19/2004 04:41:03 PM by Edward Driscoll
THE NEXT HEAD COACH OF THE OAKLAND RAIDERS? Sean Payton, the assistant head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, appears to be the frontrunner, according to Dallas Morning News. He had his second meeting with Oakland owner Al Davis in two weeks.

Posted 1/19/2004 11:17:03 AM by Edward Driscoll
FRUM ON THE TIMES: I know Glenn Reynolds already linked to this quote by David Frum today, so you may very well have seen it, but I wanted to include it as well, since it really, really sums up the New York Times in a nutshell:

The greatest scholar of the Islamic world, Bernard Lewis, has brilliantly explained the roots of Muslim rage. He traces that rage to the failure of Muslim societies to adapt to the modern world. The people of these societies remember that they were once rich and powerful and important. Now they lag far behind – and they do not understand why. Rather than look inward at their own faults and failings, they have sought scapegoats in the world beyond their borders. Can’t one see something similar at work in the mind of Michiko Kakutani? The brand of liberalism championed by her newspaper was once all-powerful in American cultural life. Over the past decade, that power has ebbed away – and since 9/11, the ebb has become a flood. The New York Times no longer decides what Americans will read and what Americans will think about what they read. Rather than look inward, they blame talk radio and the Internet and Fox TV. And when this ferocious reservoir of accumulated resentment encounters a new and contradictory idea – well it just boils over.

If only for the ability to counterpunch, Glenn sensibly comments, "Every author should have a blog".

Posted 1/19/2004 01:14:14 AM by Edward Driscoll
STEYN ON KAZAN: Mark Steyn has a terrific essay on Hollywood Communism and Elia Kazan in the Atlantic Monthly:

The 1947 Oscar-winner Gentleman’s Agreement strikes most contemporary observers as very tame, square Kazan. But, in a curious way, that’s the point. When you start watching and you realize it’s an issue movie “about” anti-semitism, you expect it to get ugly, to show us Jew-bashing in the schoolyard, and vile language about kikes. But it stays up the genteel end with dinner party embarrassments, restricted resort hotels, an understanding about the sort of person one sells one’s property to. Dorothy McGuire and her Connecticut friends aren’t bad people, but in their world, as much as on Johnny Friendly’s waterfront, people conform: they turn a blind eye to the Jew-disparaging joke, they discreetly avoid confronting the truth about the hotel’s admission policies, and, as Gregory Peck comes to understand, they’re the respectable face of what at the sharp end means pogroms and genocide. That’s what all those Hollywood and Broadway Communists did. They were the polite front of an ideology that led to mass murder, and they expected Kazan to honour their gentleman’s agreement. In those polite house parties Gregory Peck goes to in Kazan's movie, it’s rather boorish and tedious to become too exercised about anti-semitism. And likewise, at gatherings in the arts, it’s boorish and tedious to become too exercised about Communism – no matter how many faraway, foreign, unglamorous people it kills. Elia Kazan was on the right side of history. His enemies line up with the apologists for thugs and tyrants. Whose reputation would you bet on in the long run?

If you haven't read it yet, Steyn's article on Dalton Trumbo makes an appropriate bookend.

Posted 1/19/2004 01:00:48 AM by Edward Driscoll
THE YANKEE AL GORE: Debra Saunders takes aim and fires--both barrels--at John F-in' Kerry.

Posted 1/19/2004 12:53:21 AM by Edward Driscoll
TODAY IS MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY: Dwight R. Lee of Tech Central Station looks at "MLK, the Marketplace, and a Legacy of Freedom" and concludes, "We may disagree on some of the legislative and policy details that have evolved from the civil rights movement, but we should all agree that King's legacy both enhances and is enhanced by the tremendous benefits we all realize from freedom and markets." And Paul Greenberg writes, "You can tell a lot about an age by the heroes it chooses. While the Malcolms and Farrakhans come and go in favor, Martin Luther King Jr. remains a light. That is a hopeful sign." I agree. UPDATE: James Taranto links to a remarkable essay on the op-ed page of The New York Times by Kiron Skinner, the co-editor of Reagan: A Life in Letters and comments:

It's difficult to imagine such an article appearing in a liberal newspaper during Reagan's presidency. It's also hard to imagine a conservative celebrating Dr. King during his lifetime. But in America, political passions have a way of fading with time. Like Lincoln, both Reagan and Dr. King now belong to the ages (Reagan is still alive, but his mind is ravaged by Alzheimer's, and he has been out of the public eye for nearly a decade). The principle of racial equality is no longer controversial, and even most liberals admire Ronald Reagan, whether or not they agree with his policies. That ought to put today's political wars in some perspective. On Dr. King's birthday President Bush visited Atlanta and laid a wreath at his tomb. Shockingly, some 400 people protested, as if there were something wrong with an American president paying tribute to an American hero....Perhaps in another generation, when the Angry Left has cooled down, the New York Times will carry an op-ed piece exploring the philosophical kinship between Martin Luther King and George W. Bush. Just remember, you heard it here first.

I won't hold my breath, but yes, it is entirely possible. And that alone is progress, I suppose. UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Pejman Yousefzadeh quips, "I'd like to report that The New York Times editorial page has been hijacked. Because, quite frankly, that is the only way to explain the appearance of this piece.

Posted 1/19/2004 12:44:56 AM by Edward Driscoll
SOCIALISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM: Back in January of 2001, close to three years before Moveon.org debuted their Bush=Hitler ads, Jonah Goldberg wrote:

I’ve never met a real social-welfare state leftist who could answer the following question without having to think real hard: "Aside from the murder and genocide, what exactly don’t you like about National Socialism?"

Bruce Bartlett lists some of the reasons why leftists have had to "think real hard" about that question. Meanwhile, Suzanne Fields writes, "Mocking the horrors of the Holocaust has become a cottage industry in the dark corners of the anti-Semitic world, but who could have believed that in 60 years references to the Nazis would be played for laughs. An anti-Bush Web site parodies Time magazine's Person of the Year, pasting a swastika on the arm of an American soldier."

Posted 1/19/2004 12:34:16 AM by Edward Driscoll
MOVIN' ON UP: Michael Graham, the author of Redneck Nation is getting a D.C. radio show.

Posted 1/18/2004 04:53:12 PM by Edward Driscoll
WITHER CONVENTION COVERAGE? Dan Rather says:

"I think it's inevitable that the over-the-airways broadcasters and, for that matter, many in cable either take a pass or reduce their coverage even more than we've seen in recent years," Rather told the Television Critics Association this weekend.

So? It made perfect sense for the networks to cover the Republican and Democratic conventions back when they were the only game in town. But now there are endless alternatives. The conventions will be covered by CSPAN, simulcast over the 'Net, covered by Bloggers and other Web journalists, etc. Rather--and the networks--still don't get that the world no longer revolves around CBS, ABC and NBC.

Posted 1/18/2004 04:23:26 PM by Edward Driscoll
DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER: Stephen Green has some kind words about Dr. Dean.

Posted 1/18/2004 01:33:41 AM by Edward Driscoll
HOWARD DEAN'S INCREASINGLY FAMOUS TEMPER is manifesting itself in unusual ways in Iowa. Fortunately, his faith helps keep some of that anger in check.

Posted 1/18/2004 01:20:59 AM by Edward Driscoll
THE AFC AND NFC CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE TODAY: Yahoo's NFL page has plenty of articles, just in case you aren't...ready for some football. UPDATE (4:30 PM): The Pats will be representing the AFC in the Super Bowl--Patriots 24, Colts 14. UPDATE (9:37 PM) And the Panthers will be representing the NFC. Panthers 14, Eagles 3.

Posted 1/18/2004 12:52:35 AM by Edward Driscoll
FRIDAY MARKED THE 25th ANNIVERSARY of the Shah leaving Iran. And arguably, the beginning of the current, Islamofascist Middle East. Pejman Yousefzadeh has some thoughts.

Posted 1/18/2004 12:45:04 AM by Edward Driscoll
TURNING AROUND THE BATTLESHIP: Mark Gauvreau Judge has some very good ideas for Hollywood. They'll go unheeded, of course, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't read them.