The White Sox crushed the Red Sox today, in the opening game of their American League Divisional Series. This is the first home playoff game that the White Sox have won since 1959. The score by manufacturing runs and by hitting home runs. They shutdown the potent Boston offense and scored against three of the [...]
Archive for October 4th, 2005
Copy Flag
Posted in Legal Issues, Media on October 4, 2005 | Comments Off
Via Atrios, Boing Boing points out that Congress is making noises about requiring the broadcast flag in digital content. The broadcast flag would prevent you from copying shows from one machine to another. You could not, for example burn a copy of a show to DVD for personal use. You could not transfer a movie [...]
Real reporters do not work for FOX: He went on to recount his six-year tenure at Fox. “At the time I started at Fox, I thought, this is a great news organization to let me be very aggressive with a sitting president of the United States (Bill Clinton),” Shuster said. “I started having issues when [...]
Miers Epitomizes Bush Administration
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on October 4, 2005 | Comments Off
I don’t have anything intelligent to say about Miers at this point. I suspect she is right wing, but not insane, on issues of presidential power and business regulation. I also suspect that she is going to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. But I haven’t had a lot of time to look into her [...]
Missing the Forest
Posted in Culture, Politics on October 4, 2005 | Comments Off
For smart guy, Matt Yglesias is certainly missing the boat here: Sure, I would expect African Americans to be displeased with Bennett’s remarks and saying something that will predictably upset someone or some group of people is an insensitive way to behave. But so what? By this token it was insensitive of Armando and, indeed, [...]
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