Monthly Archives: June 2009

Jim Caple: Burning questions with San Francisco Giants pitcher Randy Johnson – ESPN

Caple has a pretty good interview with Randy Johnson, covering his long career and his (hopefully soon) 300th win.

I’ve always liked Johnson as a player and was glad to see him get a World Series ring in what I argue is one of the best World Series ever played, particularly for the time in which it was played.

That said, it’s really hard to forget the bird incident:

Bay Buchanan: After Assaulting Black Woman, Calling Her ‘Nigger,’ Epstein Was ‘Lynched’ | TPMDC

Those Buchanan kids weren’t spanked enough as children.

Plus, their copies of Mein Kampf should have been burned. I don’t care that Hitler autographed them personally.

Bay Buchanan has the nerve to say that her employee (I think I recently said it was her brother Pat’s worker) is being lynched by the media.

Why would she use these words? Because the guy she hired – and keeps employing – was the asshat who assaulted a black woman and called her the N-word. You know, what in most places constitutes a borderline hate crime at best.

But being a conservative means that you’re the victim, regardless of the fact that you a) are the aggressor, b) probably have the power, and c) oh yeah, you COMMITTED A FUCKING CRIME!

And you wonder how these idiots get any votes in elections at all.

Officials: Bin Laden Running Out Of Space To Hide : NPR

Here is one of those “here’s hoping” stories.

Personally, I think it is way too optimistic to think we can just bag bin Laden. The terrain is pretty rough by all accounts and not having any assets on the ground make it really tough. You know, it’s exactly how he escaped the last time when Bush pulled our troops back. Now we don’t even have soldiers on the hunt to pull back.

Also, the guy has been hiding for years. Killing him outright either makes him martyr or has no real effect anyway. This isn’t a cartoon. Yeah, it would be nice to have him dead or on trial in some Pennsylvania courtroom, but I don’t think it’s going to fix any of the problems we have in the region.