In the 1961 movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the Van Allen belt mysteriously catches fire (no mean trick in its oxygen-free environment) and threatens to cook the Earth. The UN convenes a meeting of the World’s Greatest Scientists who determine, under French leadership, that no action is necessary. Fortunately, the American representative, [...]
The Frisco paper ran a long piece Saturday on Susie (”Medea”) Benjamin, the ubiquitous protester we’ve written about from time to time. It answers two burning questions about her name and the source of her funding:
Yet before she adopted the name “Medea” as a Tufts University freshman, she was Susie Benjamin, self-described “nice Jewish girl [...]
Nick Denton has discovered a blogger so vain and pedantic he makes Anil Dash look like a free-speech hero:
Tom Coates, a rather pedantic British blogger whom I met in person this week, is appalled by those he considers warbloggers. So, does he try to persuade them, and their readers? Nope. Coates’s latest contribution to web [...]
ESPN.com: MLB – Report: Baseball edict will curtail dugout daycare
Commissioner Bud Selig told the New York Daily News on Monday that, starting next year, baseball will issue a new set of rules on who can and can’t be in the dugout. According to the newspaper, that list will include players, manager and coaches, trainers and [...]
The Giants pretty well blew the series when they prematurely celebrated toward the end of Game 6, pissing off the Angels and losing the momentum. Game seven was basically a formality, and not a particularly pleasant one. The Angels deserved to win, for their focus, their professionalism, and their smart tactics. They’re worthy champions, and [...]
If I had to name the four members of Congress most hostile to fathers and families a few months ago, my list would’ve featured Patsy Mink and Connie Morella in the House, and Barbara Boxer and Paul Wellstone in the Senate. They all have histories of pushing legislation that makes fathers more easily discardable, while [...]
Most kindly, Jesus answered our prayers and gave Kent and the Giants a good game
The Giants grabbed the upper hand by battering the Angels 16-4 in Game 5 Thursday night, the final contest of the season at Pacific Bell Park.
Unfortunately, he may have gone too far. Baseball players hate being shown up more than [...]
Skip Bayless has the following insight about Kirk Reuter for Game 7 (Mercury News | 10/24/2002 | The littlest Giant, Bell plays large role):
… Rueter … is considered the guts of the pitching staff. As a team insider said before the Series: “The majority of guys on the team would like to see Rueter pitch [...]
Anil Dash, in case you live in a cave, is a New York web elf of South Asian descent who started a smear campaign against Charles Johnson a few weeks ago, implying that Little Green Footballs was a racist site because it features commentary on the Arab Muslim press instead of commentary on Java applets [...]
The gods, as everyone who’s ever studied Greek mythology knows, are fickle, vain, and vindictive, always meting out punishment to any who offend their sensibilities, or to anyone close to them in any sense. Consequently, when the Frisco Giants had Tony Bennett sing “America the Beautiful” before Game 3 of the Series, the gods punished [...]
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