Odds & Sods #23: The Octopus-Thru-A-Tiny-Hole Edition
- The Washington Examiner editorial board thinks the 6 imams who got yanked off a US Airways flight in handcuffs (and no offer for a replacement flight home) got what they deserved. Unfortunately for the airline, the Examiner won’t be the judge and jury in this case.
- Frank Rich believes that Bush isn’t in a State of Denial but rather in The Final Days.
- I am not a rabid Michigan Wolverines football fan. I am, in fact, notorious for being a fair-weather fan of any of native state’s home teams. That said, I think the Woverines got screwed in the BCS standings when Florida was chosen over Michigan to play Ohio State for the national title. Mitch Albom speaks for me:
You can spin this thing any way you want. It was strictly about fresh versus familiar. In the end, Ohio State will play Florida on Jan. 8 in Glendale, Ariz., because people with votes want to see that game more than they want to see a rematch of Michigan-Ohio State. This was all about the line of thinking that says: “Give someone else a chance.”
But if the system were about giving everyone a chance, they wouldn’t call it a poll, they’d call it a donkey ride
And speaking of beasts of burden, I hope OSU beats Florida like a rented mule.
- John Bolton resigns! No, he didn’t! Well, whatever you call it, he’s gone. It all reminds me of that joke from “Bobcat” Goldthwaite: “I didn’t lose my job. I know exactly where it is. I went back to work the other day and found it right where I left it — except someone else is doing it now.” [P.S. Remember when "pugnacious arrogance" was considered sexy? Yeah, well, neither do I.]
- And remind me again…what exactly did we do for amusement in the days before we could watch as a big octopus squeezes itself through a little hole?
- If you were in charge of creating the 2007 Official RNC Calendar, what would you put on every single month’s page? That’s right — pictures of George W. Bush! Now there’s the perfect holiday stocking stuffer from a party that just got socked in the jaw by an angry electorate. [Note: Actually Bush is only on 11 of the pages -- "Dick" Cheney is Mr. August. In a white cowboy hat. I kid you not.]
- I knew it, I knew it, I knew it: deep down, Ken Starr knows that Jesus hates Democrats.
- Never mind all the junior high school crap about who gets to chair a committee: Robert Reich says (and I agree) that the first real test of Democratic seriousness is over the fight between Big Pharma vs. Medicare.
