May the same thing happen to him and his party that happened to the last Virginia governor selected to his party’s national chairmanship during a state budget crisis with a year left on his gubernatorial term.
4 January 2009 / 0 Comments / Tags: politics / TrackbackI’m not happy about the election results in policy terms, but there’s a societal benefit here, and the person who put it best might just have been Chris Rock. At his show in Richmond this spring (and probably plenty of others too), the thing he said he most looked forward to from this election was that a generation of kids, including his own, would grow up with Barack Obama — a black man — as their childhood image of “what a president looks like.”
Well, he’s got his wish. And now, nobody can tell a black kid that he or she can’t be president, or anything else that kid wants to be, or that America is so intractably racist that success is impossible for them. The celebration in Chicago puts the lie to all that. Congratulations, President-elect Obama; what President Bush called the soft bigotry of low expectations is one societal pathology that we can damn well put to bed tonight, and that’s good for all of us.
4 November 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: politicsSure, Obama has few qualifications, little experience, and in many ways we couldn’t disagree more with his platform. We hope he’s lying. But we (are really damn tired of defending Bush/never liked him anyway), McCain (has pissed us off for years with his grandstanding/should have kept it up), and Obama sure does talk pretty. Oh, and Palin? Ew. Populism. So what the heck, give him a shot.
And by the way, can we get an invite to the inauguration party? Just one of them? Not even one of the big ones? Please?
(See, T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII understands!)
30 October 2008 / 1 Comment / Tags: politics, funnyI could type for hours on the headshot issue, but Chuq nails it here.
The only extra distinction I’d draw is on the receiving player’s head position when hit. Sutter’s head was nearly down at waist level, which put him at risk. Bad hits, to me, are when the attacker goes out of his way to hit the head — which normally means head-up receiver and an attacker lifting his shoulder or elbow to do the damage. That’s not what happened here, and despite what Jimmy Rutherford says, the Canes know it.
27 October 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: hockey / Trackback![[FAIL]](/imgs/2008failShort.PNG "[FAIL]")