There was a time I would have never dreamed to be able to get this as a morning's viewing selection:  •  8:55 am - AC Milan vs Reggina (Italy)9:00 am - Bayer Leverkusen vs Hamburg (Germany)11:00 am - Udinese vs Juventus (Italy) 11:00 am - Chelsea vs Liverpool (England) 2:00 pm - Manchester United …

The next morning, here are some comments from Pajamastan:  •  Politburo Diktat:  •  “  •  “Kerry hit Bush hard on Iraq; he sounded reasonable and decisive. He did not get stuck in complex Senate-ese. Bush held his ground, reinforcing his image as steadfast and determined. His best monent …

"I have agreed to enforce their rules on them," says Jim Lehrer, just before telling us he wrote all the questions. That is a good thing. I have some hope.  •  "We just have a different set of convictions," Kerry says in the first of a evening of what will be no doubt short sentences from him …

I don't like scary movies. I have this feeling that if I expose myself to scariness I will develop a creeping subliminal fear. I recall that Plato didn't think plays were good for the the community but he was pretty much a fascist...really. I often wonder where people get the ideas upon which they …

“Note added 20 Oct.: I am getting a lot of hits to this page during the Sox-Yankees ALCS series. Here is the link to MLB you are looking for to get this web radio service. If you are in eastern North America get out the transistor you have laying around and check out 880 WCBS AM out of New York …

I was pissed off when rock music started getting sucked into sports shows and ads in the late 70s. Now we have Franz Ferdinand as ad intro music for ABC Monday Night Football. I was even more ticked when it started being co-opted in to politics with songs having only passing connection to the …

You do not need to be dealing with anti-evolutionists to be facing attempts to unravel simple knowledge for the all important, glorious cause of private interest. From the BBC today comes backlash against that well-known falsifier "Sid the Slug":  •  “The Salt Manufacturers' Association has …

Red Sox v. Yankees, Red Sox v. Yankees:  •  Tonight - 7pm on WWTI channel 9 out of Watertown, NY, Yankee broadcast but they are extremely fair. If it is going sideways or I get ticked, I can go to WTIC 1080 AM Hartford audio which comes in clear with 50,000 night time clear channel watts …

It's all so Bobby Bittman around here tonight what with my favorite right-wing blogger telling the world I'm his favorite left-wing blogger.