Call It A Comeback
The White Sox finished out the series against the Cards tonight. You have to feel for the kid Reyes. He pitched a 1 hitter and lost.
What I did catch was something just extraordinary. Had to run to the store so I was listening to 670 and Sox radio broadcaster Ed Farmer began the seventh inning by saying (paraphrased), “Thome up to bat and he’s going deep, I can feel it.” As the words left his mouth, Thome went 455′ deep to right field.
Wow.
I guess we’ll know more tomorrow. I’m especially intrigued that these guys had “no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations.”
Who needs a home when you have a blog.
Scroll down to the third post, guess Wired Magazine did a feature, check it out.
But I think the guest bloggers might continue as their time permits. I’m sick, if you sent me e-mail, don’t expect a quick reply.
Monday, will be a return to your normally scheduled programming until July 3rd and my trip to San Francisco. August will have a couple breaks as well, including Governor’s Day and recovery from Governor’s Day and a vacation. If the guest bloggers had fun over the last week, they’ll be welcome to return as I’ve enjoyed their stuff. I’ll also be on the lookout for others.
Zorn takes Roskam to task for some ambulance chasing, trial lawyer style yellow page advertising.
Check out the scans of the ads. Can you do “Personal Injury” in any bigger font?
Update: Austin Mayor has a much funnier picture than I.
Archpundit should be back today, but I hope he’ll indulge me in one last post, especially on an issue that really burns me up.
For those of us who have progressive or liberal views on social issues, it’s no secret that the cultural right lies. It doesn’t matter whether the discussion is about evolution, homosexuality, women’s rights: the Right simply refuses to accept the world as it is, relying instead on their version of reality.
In a groundbreaking study that could influence the debate over sex education, researchers have found that consistent use of condoms significantly reduces the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.
University of Washington researchers will report Thursday that female college students were 70 percent less likely to become infected with human papillomavirus, or HPV, if their partners always wore a condom during sex than those whose partners used condoms less than 5 percent of the time.
For many years now, pro-life-anti-sex fanatics have attacked comprehensive sex ed programs by arguing that condoms are ineffective against sexually transmitted infections. Their only basis for this argument was that HPV — Human Papilloma Virus — is transmitted skin-to-skin, and thus condoms do not prevent transmission. In fact, some conservative congressmen pressured the FDA to require warning labels on condoms.
Well, they were wrong.
In the meantime, how much damage did their scare campaign do? How many kids were taught that condoms were ineffective? How many kids believe this and stop using condoms, when they clearly prevent the transmission of disease, including HPV?
There’s a cost to the war on truth waged by the Right. And I think that young people are paying the highest price.
First, so there is no confusion, this is not Larry writing. This is one of the guest posters while he’s on vacation.
I wanted to comment on David Sirota getting a phone call and interview with Senator Obama that popped up last week or so. I encourage you to read the piece as David wrote a good article, allowed the Senator ample room to express his views and does a very good job of laying out an emerging progressive topic du jour: Is Obama a Progressive or Will He Disappoint?
David says we should tamper down our expectations as Obama will disappoint progressives with his insider/institutional approach to solving problems.
What he completely misses is there is no reason to be disappointed.
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The Washington Post writes up the Hastert deal with a couple other lawmakers.
One of the reasons John McCain was so loved in 2000 was his willingness to fly in the face of his party and say what they didn’t want to hear.
McCain is a shadow of his former self these days having resigned himself to court the insiders in order to win the nomination for 2008.
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska now fills that role:
The war in Iraq is the defining issue on which this Congress and the administration will be judged. The American people want to see serious debate about serious issues from serious leaders. They deserve more than a political debate. This debate should transcend cynical attempts to turn public frustration with the war in Iraq into an electoral advantage. It should be taken more seriously than to simply retreat into focus-group tested buzz words and phrases like ?cut and run,? catchy political slogans that debase the seriousness of war. War?s not a partisan issue, Mr. President. It should not be held hostage to political agendas. War should not be drug down into the political muck. America deserves better. Our men and women fighting and dying deserve better.
Hat Tip to Think Progress.
Instead of going into detail about last night’s butt-whipping the Sox gave the Cards, I will be respectful of Arch’s turf here and look into OOHMA (Ozzie Opening His Mouth Again).
Greg Couch has the story.
Now, I dislike Mariotti as much as the next man (this is the jackass column he wrote about the Sean Tracy incident), but you have to control yourself Ozzie, you’re giving the White Sox PR guys heartburn.
It’s good to stick up for your players and your obviously not running for anything, but stuff like this ends up hurting people, distracts from the good ink the team should get AND worst of all probably brings a smile to Marriotti’s face since he gets attention.
Anyone ever see the Simpsons episode where they ignored the commercial advertisement monsters to make them go away? Ignore him Ozzie and you’ll make him irrelevant.
Update: I should have clicked through a few more spots on the RSS reader. More talk from South Side Sox here.
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