Hard to say how the numbers were affected by the media firestorm criticizing "The Path to 9-11," but it looks like a good football game may have done as much or more to turn people away from the blame-Clinton series, neutralizing the clear right-wing tilt of the thing, than all the furor about its content.
Not sure what the hell that says or means, but there it is.
So, continuing the endless meme, why does the NFL hate America?
For the fifth anniversary, I’ve been struggling to find an eloquent way to write something useful about 9-11 and its victims and the meaning of the myriad events that have happened since. Every time I try, words just fail. Too many rush forward. Too few need to be spoken. I believe perhaps a lot of you may know the feeling.
You may also remember the strange sense of connection that day brought in the rest of us. In the first hours afterward, none of us were right or left or rich or poor, and it was OK to hug people if they were sobbing. We weren’t strangers, all fighting and competing, for just a moment. We were neighbors and friends and simply fellow Americans. I do wish we still were. I wish that feeling had guided all of us, every one of us, more than it has.
Anyhow, I’m not gonna do any blogging on 9-11. I have no idea what to say. I don’t pretend any insight. I probably know less every day. So I’m just gonna think and feel and grieve and try to remember for myself, and see if I can learn anything. Figure you’re doing the same.
See you on the 12th, dear neighbors and friends.
Reposted: share the spectacle of me struggling to pull an important Final Jeopardy out of my keister with friends, family, and other people with keisters.
Thanks again to Scott Bateman at Batemania.com.
Reposted: what happens after you play your first nine games of Jeopardy!, shot in my tiny apartment shortly after the 1998 Tournament of Champions.
I was under the false impression that the lifetime supplies! had stopped. This Google video actually
only covers a little more than half of the ultimate haul of lozenges, home games, emollients, and cleansers.For YouTube loyalists, here’s that version:
It took me a while to figure out something good to do with roughly a bathtubful of Mrs. Butterworths.
You’ll have to read chapter 16 of the new book to find out what it was.
Tom Delay, the House Majority Leader forced to resign his post in the wake of his indictment for campaign finance violations, has a new cause, apparently vital to the protection of America for real Americans — cheering for Jerry Springer’s opponent on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars:
Ballroom dancing: the first line of American defense.