The “Sunday Talk Shows” were a-buzz yesterday with Obama Administration statements of commitment to the War in Afghanistan, reports the NYT. A couple of samples:

“We have strategic interests in South Asia that should not be measured in terms of finite times,” said Gen. James L. Jones, the president’s national security adviser, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We’re going to be in the region for a long time.”

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Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” General Petraeus said that the Obama administration was not planning a “rush to the exits” in Afghanistan, and that depending on the security conditions there could be tens of thousands of American troops in Afghanistan for several years.

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I will preface this column by saying this is going to be a Tiger-free zone. I wrote about Tiger Woods earlier in the week, and the rest of the world is doing a fine job of covering the ubiquitous story. No more assistance needed from me.

On to some bad sports. Charlie Weis, former head coach of Notre Dame (I love writing that), decided to mouth off this week, talking smack about Pete Carroll of USC, stating that Carroll was having an affair with a graduate student. Mouthing off is nothing new for Weis, of course. [Read more →]

Tags: bad sports, good sports, sports by Alan Spoll
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10. He started horsing around, and then things just got out of hand.

9. His ex-girlfriend once told him he was hung like one.

8. Seriously, have you seen that horse?!

7. During the playoffs, he misheard when someone said he should be rooting for the Phillies!

6. He read one of the signs of the swine flu was feeling a little hoarse.

5. He knew he’d never have to pay palimony to a palomino.

4. The horse looks exactly like his old girlfriend.

3. He claims he was looking for a stable relationship.

2. His daughter said, for her next birthday, she was hoping for a pony.

1. He was put up to it – by a small step stool.
 

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Tags: animals, Bob Sullivan's top ten everything, ends & odd, on the law by Bob Sullivan
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Today, December 7th, is Pearl Harbor Day. 

On this day in 1941, the Imperial Japanese launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, our naval base in Hawaii. 

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Am I the only one getting tired of listening to the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) crowd as they attempt to downplay the significance of Climategate’s leaked e-mails?  They tell us over and over that these e-mails have an alternative interpretation, that this is a move on the part of special interests to impede change, that the researchers involved in passing these e-mails around are merely the victims of a heinous crime.  Enough with the nonsense, people!  %*)#.  Wake up, man!

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Tags: environment & nature, science by Mike McGowan
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The London Evening Standard reports that the Oxford University Press plans to republish all of Evelyn Waugh’s works, including his great novels, travel books, diary, biographies and his letters.

I discovered Waugh when I was in the Navy in my early 20’s and stationed in Scotland in the mid-1970s. As I planned to major in journalism when I left the Navy, I purchased a Penguin paperback of his satire of journalism, Scoop. I thought it was a great satirical novel, and I’ve reread it again and again over the years.

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We’ve been dealing with health care reform for the better part of a year now, and progress today is still as iffy as it was before the “Summer of Angry Town Halls”.  The Senate is debating amendments and provisions, jockeying for votes, and trying to keep together the fragile coalition which allowed for debate on the Senate floor to occur.  The average American, having long ago made up their mind, is probably becoming tired of the same speeches, the same talking points, and the intolerable actions of Congress people on both sides of the aisle.

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Tags: damned lies, health & medical, politics & government by Mike McGowan
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“If you think that you are, ‘too big to fail’… ” You have got another think coming!!! is what I optimistically edited in for our President, even before he could stutter out the balance of his thought. Oh, what a transport can occur in a moment! Loyal, or even repeat readers know that the President’s oratory drives a swelling in my chest and a welling in my eyes, as it does for all true Americans. [Read more →]

Tags: money, politics & government by Ken Watson
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It’s all coming apart at the seams in the UK, according to a new study released by the Fabian Society and Webb Memorial Trust.  The study shows that the UK is about to fall off into depths of poverty unseen in over a century.

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Tags: money, politics & government by Mike McGowan
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The Chairman of the Federal Reserve is taking another turn in the Congressional ‘Hot Seat of Phony Moral Outrage’ today.  This is the same Hot Seat which has occupied others, such as the CEOs of the Big Three, and Roger Clemens.  Like those others, he shouldn’t have been there.

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I apologize for my absence these past couple of weeks. I vow here and now to be present and accounted for every Thursday, from this day forth. No more random, unexplained disappearances. I’ve experienced too many of those this week, and so in my own small way I’ve decided to show up. Every Thursday, as previously promised, I will be here. I will show up.

I want so badly to be able to bitch and moan about some mindless act of parenting that makes me mental and irate in order to garner laughter and prove my innate ability to turn everything into a joke. But I am struggling in a way that is unfamiliar to me. [Read more →]

Tags: family & parenting, going parental by Jaclyn Roth
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A friend sent me the link to an interesting piece from the German magazine Der Spiegel — not exactly a publication of the vast right-wing conspiracy, as my friend pointed out — that criticized Obama’s speech at West Point.

Obama has been criticized from both the left and the right for the speech, and the West Point cadets looked a bit underwhelmed at his less than rallying call-to-arms.

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Tags: politics & government, terror & war by Paul Davis
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Notoriously heedless of his own safety and well-being, President Obama plunged into the Global Struggle Against Man-Caused Disasters by appearing before an array of thousands of young, savage fighters from, as reported by respected frontline journalist Chris Matthews, the enemy camp. The rest of us know this institution as the US army service academy located at West Point, NY. [Read more →]

Tags: terror & war, trusted media & news by Ken Watson
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Waiting until next Monday’s Bad sports, good sports column to write about Tiger Woods seems like a missed opportunity. Despite the fact that I am not someone who enjoys gossip, I feel like something needs to be said.  [Read more →]

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Tiger Woods fender bender
success sucks Extra.
Who knew except all of US?
 

Image by Winter Smiley

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This weekend Tiger Woods had a car crash that was definitely embarrassing and definitely not serious (he was the only one hurt, and those injuries were minor enough he got out of the hospital within hours). Frankly, it’s no one’s business. By refusing to discuss it, however, Woods has ensured it is everyone‘s business and will remain so indefinitely. For better or worse, the best way for a celebrity to handle a problem is to acknowledge it as quickly as possible. Look no further than the New York Yankees for proof. [Read more →]

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November 7, 2009
I dream a salesman in a men’s store informs me that I am dressing incorrectly and if I only bought the right suit I would look sensational. He hands me a suit to try on and it does not look as if it would fit me. I squeeze into it, however, and while it feels funny I look in the mirror and I am fabulous. I comb out my scraggly hair as well and it turns out to be shoulder length and silky. I look wonderful and feel positive about myself.

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Many unprogressives stubbornly insist that the health care reform legislation making its way through Congress will do little or nothing to provide coverage for the estimated 46 million people in America without health insurance. But these deniers and haters have simply failed to recognize the mechanism that will surely provide coverage for all; that is, the provision that will mandate, under penalty of law, that all individuals purchase insurance. [Read more →]

Tags: health & medical, politics & government by Colin Cohen
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When Clareece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) realizes that her life may finally improve, she gives most of the credit to her teacher, Ms. Rain (Paula Patton). Precious recognizes that the teacher helping her once had problems of her own. In one of the film’s many voiceovers, Precious reflects on this and says, “I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels. And in that tunnel, the only light they had, was inside of them. And then long after they escape that tunnel, they still be shining for everybody else.” Beautifully directed by Lee Daniels and wonderfully acted by newcomers, pop stars and a comedienne, Precious  is a film about how small kindnesses can create a force powerful enough to combat unspeakable cruelty and suffering.  Although the film is gritty and uncompromising, there are moments of surprising beauty and humor, and Precious looks very different from most of the standard Hollywood offerings.  [Read more →]

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Here in the rural South, I’m often asked “Why are you a libertarian?” or “What makes you a libertarian?” when I mention to others what political persuasion I hold.  Living in a State that went McCain by seven points, I am often surrounded by Republicans who seem to think that libertarians are just another face in the “Big Tent”, like we’re their slightly dopey little brother, and that given time, we’ll eventually mature into full blown GOPer’s.  But I think they are mistaken when they make that assumption.  In my opinion, there are very serious discrepancies between a true libertarian and a Republican Party statist!

Over the course of the next few posts, I’m going to try to hit the highlights and explain exactly what kind of libertarian I am.

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Tags: on the law, politics & government, religion & philosophy by Mike McGowan
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