Archive for March, 2006

It’s Day Five in the Boston Herald‘s Tony Scalia Made An Obscene Gesture Crisis. By now I wish my almost favorite Supreme Court Justice really had flipped-off the delicate reporters from the Herald, and then thrown a gavel at them. Followed by a chair.

If you know the name Ben Domenech, which I didn’t a week ago, then you don’t need to read this, this, this, this, or this. I admit to being tempted to take shots at the figuratively speaking wounded Mr. Domenech, who stridently opposed impure conservatives, but I don’t really get my jollies from that kind [...]

So, really, what does the Religion of Peace have to say about somebody who wants to leave it? “The Quran is very clear, and the words of our prophet are very clear. There can only be one outcome: death,” said cleric Khoja Ahmad Sediqi, who is also a member of the Supreme Court.

Here’s what I said about Crash, Best Motion Picture of 2005. Now check out this article, one of many from Saturday’s anti-anti-illegal-immigration rally in Los Angeles. Mickey Kaus counted flags at the rally.

Universal Hub heter en av de bästa bloggarna i Boston. Förra veckan bytte den sin ursprungliga look till en ny, en som är ren och skär MUF/MSU “Frihet ger fred” a la tidigt 1980-tal: Den ljusblå färgen, typsnittet, t.o.m. måsjäveln! Löntagarfonder? Helknäppt! (Oh boy. Adam linked here based on a somewhat halting though mostly accurate [...]

A consequence of leaving your native country is that you gradually fall out of touch with it and its culture. Things that used to be important in your Old Country fade away without you having any idea about it happening. New things pop up, things you’ve never heard of and have no idea of how [...]

This is not at all a brawl-porn post, but, in fact, a thoughtful analysis of the use of surveillance camera evidence in a recent trial in the United Kingdom. But first, the brawl porn: English hooligans clash with each other and attack random people before a game against Wales in Manchester in 2004 (opens in [...]

Yes, back in the days there was Tony Franklin, but he was a penthouse to the outhouse back to the penthouse player, as he once said himself. But Franklin was no Adam Vinatieri. Vinatieri was always on top of his game, but never one you’d think of as a penthouse guy. Adam wasn’t just a [...]

The little town of Newfane, Vermont, is making a name for itself by voting to impeach President George W. Bush. That’s a pretty silly thing to do, of course, but I find it hard to believe that a small town in Vermont – an ur-American type of town, if you will – is a “disgrace [...]

Odd-ball story in the Boston Herald: The family of a New York teenager is accusing his school district of violating his civil rights by sending him to a Massachusetts school that uses electric-shock therapy to treat people with behavioral problems. Antwone Nicholson, 17, was routinely shocked whenever he swore or did not cooperate with staff [...]