I’ve got a new hockey rant up at Beyond the Turnstile.
Archive for November 11th, 2004
Bring Back the Hockey: Please!
Posted in Sports on November 11, 2004 | 8 Comments »
The Death of TennCare
Posted in Politics on November 11, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Phil Bredesen is going to kill TennCare. he claims that the program is out of control, and that “lawsuits” are preventing him form making the changes he thinks re necessary to save the program. Bredesen, by the way, is a Democrat. What I find interesting in Bredesen’s rhetoric is the complete and absolute lack of [...]
The Child-in-Chief
Posted in Politics on November 11, 2004 | 20 Comments »
Among Bush’s many shortcomings, his simple childishness is the most obvious and most reprehensible. It underlies many of his more repulsive – and dangerous – traits: his incuriousity about the world, his refusal to listen to criticism of his ideas, his petulant insistence that everyone else should be like him (he fired one White House [...]
Arafat is Dead
Posted in Politics on November 11, 2004 | 5 Comments »
No surprise, of course. He has been effectively dead for days now. The only question remains is whether or not his death helps the cause of peace. I do not know. I know that there are several more radical factions among the Palestinians, and I know that Arafat has left the PLA a corrupt hulk, [...]
Veterans Day
Posted in Culture on November 11, 2004 | Comments Off
Is today, so thank a vet. UPDATE: For all his problems, Richard Cohen can be eloquent at times. This is an example of that eloquence.