Month: August 2005

Angels fan Matt Welch still insists they’re doing fine. Go to his bloggy and help him out.

Right now, 4 of my picks are in first or second place, and in the other two divisions one is lead by my second-place pick and the other is the NL West (where my pick is the Dodgers) so we’re looking pretty good.

My worst picks so far are the Mets for Wild Card in the NL and the Tigers to take their division. The Mets are playing below their ability – especially that Beltran clown, who must have been juiced – and the Tigers were a perverse pick even if they have come a long way since losing 114 games year before last. I hate the White Sox because they beaned Chavez and broke his wrist last year, so I’m not permitted to pick them to win anything.

Sepia Mutiny reports:

Bombay had 37.1 inches of rain on Tuesday

Portland is so jealous it could shriek.

Prospect magazine interviews notorious British jihadi Hassan Butt for some insight into his demented psyche. This is from the setup:

Radical Islam draws recruits from many walks of life, but in Britain its agents are of a type—second-generation British Pakistanis. Somehow they have been worst hit by the populations shifts of the last 50 years and the alienation that came with them. A few have rallied under a banner which brings an intense sense of grievance. And when they are done chasing absurd dreams of caliphates, there is always martyrdom. “For me there’s nothing bigger,” said Butt. I met many in Beeston with his makings: small, rootless lives, seeking bigger things.

I think we’re looking at the consequences of multi-culturalism and its opposition to proper assimilation, but read it see what you think.

In our screwed-up society, where man-hating peroxide feminists pass themselves off as conservatives and “feminists for life” pursue a stealth agenda of normalizing the single-parent family under the guise of anti-abortion activism, it’s good that we have the purity of baseball to exemplify the triumph of good over evil.

Damn Rafael Palmeiro.

This is rather pithy example of Burchill:

Of course, it is all very well to spend your days lecturing others to “celebrate diversity” when you go home each night to Hampstead. But surely the faces of the people who were killed last week told their own story — if this is such an unwelcoming, racist place to live, why do all races continue to flock here, as they do to evil, imperialist America?

Why indeed are the US and the UK the top immigrant destinations in the world? It’s not like anybody moves to places like China and Syria, you know.