Category Archives: Interests

Report: Bud Selig said to reconsidering Pete Rose’s status for reinstatement – ESPN

You want to know why I think Bud Selig is the worst thing to happen to baseball since organized segregation? This is why.

There is a reason the Black Sox aren’t in the Hall of Fame. Most, if not all, of them cheated. The end. To even think of reinstating Pete Rose, after he affected the outcome of some games, is just vile.

I don’t care what you think of the guy personally or even his career. He cheated. As a manager capable of affecting the outcome of a game.

So yeah, keep him out. Keep out the steroid freaks if you can too. I even liked Sosa but come on. You have to draw a line somewhere.

New poll reveals Ensign’s status sinking – News – ReviewJournal.com

Granted, the Review-Journal is probably one of the most conservative daily papers I’ve ever read – and no, I very, very rarely pay money for that rag – but even the local conservathugs are beginning to find John Ensign to be a piece of crap.

That said, most of them think he should not resign. Hooray for flexible Republican morals!

Hypocritical bastards.

Rachel Maddow: July 20th, 2009

Last night’s Rachel Maddow show was pretty much all over the place as far as issues go. Granted, I often chafe at the cute factor lately and thinks she forgets that Obama is a moderate and likely will never go as left as much as she’d like – or even as much as I’d like. The difference? I realized that early and back most of his moves anyway.

That said, there was some good coverage on some pretty key issues yesterday so I figured I’d post them up for anyone interested. Here’s the transcript.

First up is our soldier captured by the Taliban that the GOP is apparently willing to write off to be killed by his captors. Real patriots, those asshats. PVT Bergdahl, get home safely.

Also, more coverage of the twits trying to screw us out of health care.

More on the House on C Street and the Talibangelical cult members who live there:

The real gem of last night’s show was the following clarification and correcting of Pat Buchanan’s racist screed from the other night. Honestly, THIS is why Maddow’s style works even though it may fall flat on the petty stuff.

Even House Twit Kent Jones had a decent segment.

I had these segments broken up well but since Flash died and MSNBC does a HORRIBLE job of archiving, I’ve had to pull what I can from archive.org and it is just damn hard to get things cut up just so.

Forty Years After Space Race, What’s Next? : NPR

NPR has been running a series tied to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. A couple of high points have been an interview with Buzz Aldrin and a story on the hopefully accidental erasure of the original Apollo 11 tapes.

Also of interest is a backup speech that Nixon would have used if the landing had befallen some form of disaster. Pretty chilling but good that even Tricky Dick had a backup plan, something we haven’t seen in a president for the majority of this decade.

Wired had a rollup of related Apollo 11 news, some of it new to most of us.