Monday, May 17, 2004
Back on the Trail
After reading in this morning's NYTimes about how Dennis Kucinich is still battling for delegates in tomorrow's Oregon Primary, I was inspired to come back to this blog in hopes of restarting some entries on this year's Election Battle. Two months of lost election comments amount to 60 lifetimes of shifts and twists worthy of shtick. But no one's reading me in this forum (with the possible exception of family). So here we go again - once again into the fray of verbose futility.
A must-read from the WashPost this weekend dealt with Bush's funding raising prowess. As if "Pioneers" and "Rangers" weren't enough, now there will be "Super Rangers" which are tasked to throw $300K-each the way of the RNC. Look for "PowerRangers" and "Pie and Coffee-Neers" coming soon. You heard it here first.
More terrible news coming from Iraq this morning in the form of the (recently-current) head of the Governing Council being assassinated by a massive car bomb. Yet FoxNews/Drudge/ImitatorFrauds everywhere will surely instead trumpet the discovery of an old 155-millimeter shell with sarin gas over the weekend that was used in a roadside bomb. The only interesting thing I've seen thus far about that munition is that the Iraqis typically didn't mark their chemical shells (according to David Kay being interviewed on MSNBC). Personally, I find that astonishing footnote to be even more important to consider than the weak-kneed, so-called good news of finding the first instance of decades-old WMDs. Regardless, any new news is surely considered to be good news by the Bushies in hopes of pushing Sy Hersh's latest example of an amazing "get" for "The New Yorker" off the nation's front pages. If there's a more important investigative journalist working in the US today, he or she doesn't come to mind.
On an entirely different note, the Milwaukee Brewers are generating news on the playing field for the first time in years, much too my satisfaction. Granted, they're only one game over .500 and it isn't even the end of May. But their Ace, Ben Sheets, threw a complete game at home yesterday - striking out 18 (a team record eclipsing one of my childhood faves, Moose Haas's, previous best of 14) on the way to a 4-1 victory. Cheering for the Brew Crew has become akin to cheering for a Minor League team over the last decade. I'm still there, though. And this team has some early potential. Lyle Overbay (the new first baseman we got along with 5 other contributing players for trading the ridiculously large Ricky Sexton) has a 17-game hitting streak still active. They defend well, they hit well, and they've got the best-rated Farm League system in the major leagues. All that with the lowest payroll in the Majors this year. A long way from Bambi's Bombers and Harvey's Wallbangers, but a team worthy of attention nonetheless.
And with that, I'll sign off for the moment. It feels good to be back.
After reading in this morning's NYTimes about how Dennis Kucinich is still battling for delegates in tomorrow's Oregon Primary, I was inspired to come back to this blog in hopes of restarting some entries on this year's Election Battle. Two months of lost election comments amount to 60 lifetimes of shifts and twists worthy of shtick. But no one's reading me in this forum (with the possible exception of family). So here we go again - once again into the fray of verbose futility.
A must-read from the WashPost this weekend dealt with Bush's funding raising prowess. As if "Pioneers" and "Rangers" weren't enough, now there will be "Super Rangers" which are tasked to throw $300K-each the way of the RNC. Look for "PowerRangers" and "Pie and Coffee-Neers" coming soon. You heard it here first.
More terrible news coming from Iraq this morning in the form of the (recently-current) head of the Governing Council being assassinated by a massive car bomb. Yet FoxNews/Drudge/ImitatorFrauds everywhere will surely instead trumpet the discovery of an old 155-millimeter shell with sarin gas over the weekend that was used in a roadside bomb. The only interesting thing I've seen thus far about that munition is that the Iraqis typically didn't mark their chemical shells (according to David Kay being interviewed on MSNBC). Personally, I find that astonishing footnote to be even more important to consider than the weak-kneed, so-called good news of finding the first instance of decades-old WMDs. Regardless, any new news is surely considered to be good news by the Bushies in hopes of pushing Sy Hersh's latest example of an amazing "get" for "The New Yorker" off the nation's front pages. If there's a more important investigative journalist working in the US today, he or she doesn't come to mind.
On an entirely different note, the Milwaukee Brewers are generating news on the playing field for the first time in years, much too my satisfaction. Granted, they're only one game over .500 and it isn't even the end of May. But their Ace, Ben Sheets, threw a complete game at home yesterday - striking out 18 (a team record eclipsing one of my childhood faves, Moose Haas's, previous best of 14) on the way to a 4-1 victory. Cheering for the Brew Crew has become akin to cheering for a Minor League team over the last decade. I'm still there, though. And this team has some early potential. Lyle Overbay (the new first baseman we got along with 5 other contributing players for trading the ridiculously large Ricky Sexton) has a 17-game hitting streak still active. They defend well, they hit well, and they've got the best-rated Farm League system in the major leagues. All that with the lowest payroll in the Majors this year. A long way from Bambi's Bombers and Harvey's Wallbangers, but a team worthy of attention nonetheless.
And with that, I'll sign off for the moment. It feels good to be back.
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