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Elective Surgery

8 October, 2008 (05:30) | Politics | View Comments

It’s 5 AM in Prague and I’m crouched in a stairwell. The second presidential debate just ended on CNN Europe and I kept running tabs of the whole thing. I’ll post the entirety of my notes below, but you’re better off just getting transcript if you’re interested. Matt’s disappointed. He thinks Obama bombed. Matt is [...] Read more »

Black Thai Affair

28 August, 2008 (11:35) | Travelogue | View Comments

The moat around the old city in Chiang Mai glows late at night. For more brilliant pictures of Thailand, click here. I guess it’s simply the luck of the draw that no matter how good a time we have in our destination, our travel between places just doesn’t quite work out. Standing in the train [...] Read more »

Fun With Headlines

7 December, 2005 (14:26) | Media | View Comments

ESPN Headline: “Braves send Estrada to Arizona for pitchers” My thought: “Diamondbacks now have the best bike cop ever.” ESPN Headline:“Rare copies of Black Sox reports returned to library.” My thought: “Library declines to issue late charges out of relief.” CNN Headline: “Elian Gonzalez celebrates 12th birthday” My thought: “Declares himself eligible for MLB draft [...] Read more »

Pope: “My Senility is Clouding My Judgment”

23 February, 2005 (13:00) | Religion | View Comments

As seen on CNN.com… ROME, Italy (Reuters) — Homosexual marriages are part of “a new ideology of evil” that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in his newly published book. In “Memory and Identity,” the Pope also calls abortion a “legal extermination” comparable to attempts to wipe out Jews and other groups in [...] Read more »

Liberally Bigoted

17 February, 2005 (18:27) | Politics | View Comments

Last week, I went skiing with my mom. My grandparents have cable at the condo in Frisco where we were staying, so after the first day of skiing, I flopped down on the couch and played channel roulette until I hit CNN. All afternoon I flipped between CNN, MSNBC and CNBC. I’ve never liked news, [...] Read more »