This one was much, much tougher, but the White Sox did what winning teams have to do: they took advantage of Boston’s mistake. And Bobby Jenks, their 24 year old rookie forced into the closer role because of Dustin Hermanson’s bad back, was very impressive. He pitched the last two innings, giving up one hit, [...]
Archive for October 5th, 2005
Republican Bingo
Posted in Politics on October 5, 2005 | Comments Off
Jesus, this is depressing
Miers Case Raises Questions
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on October 5, 2005 | Comments Off
This is an interesting piece of Harriet Miers’ past: Microsoft was sued for distributing faulty compression software for MS DOS 6.0, then charging for an update. As laid out in Microsoft Corp. v. Manning, et al., No. 06-95-00058-CV (Texarkana), 11/13/95, Microsoft sold MS-DOS 6.0 to consumers with disk compression software that it had purchased from [...]
Fundraising for the Koufax Awards
Posted in Bloggin on October 5, 2005 | Comments Off
Wampum is hosting the Koufax awards, and they are fundraising now to support them. The Awards are a good spirited attempt to reward good writing on the left and to introduce people to blogs they may not have known about before. Despite the fact that this blog has never won any, they are an important [...]
Bush Chooses Brown to Replace Miers
Posted in Politics, Satire on October 5, 2005 | Comments Off
Associated Press, WASHINGTON, DC — In a surprise move, President George W. Bush, faced with mounting conservative opposition to his original pick of Harriet Miers, withdrew the nomination of Miers and replaced her with former FEMA head Mike “Brownie” Brown. In announcing the move, President Bush said that Mike Brown had the characteristics he looked [...]
A Work of Fiction, Not a Documentary
Posted in I do too have a life on October 5, 2005 | Comments Off
So, walking out of work yesterday I see a car from this organization in the parking lot, complete with massive radio antenna and siren. Hollywood is ruining America. Well, no — stupid people and people who want to take advantage of stupid people are ruining America, but Hollywood is giving them too many ideas. Things [...]
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