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Too Late, Trotsky is part blog, part journal, and completely pointless.

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24 January 12
inothernews: 17 years. 1,954 games. 1,664 hits. 1,065 runs batted in. 275 home runs. In the playoffs 16 out of 17 seasons. Four World Series rings. And a symbol of class.  Diana Munson, widow of Yankee captain Thurman Munson, thanked Jorge for “bringing me back to baseball.” Thanks for everything, Jorge. (Photo of a tearful Jorge Posada announcing his retirement from professional baseball at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday by Ron Antonelli / New York Daily News) Just want to say I credit this guy with getting me behind the plate when no one else would. Jorge is class at its finest, and when I played ball I tried to be as stand-up as him, even in the worst innings.

inothernews:

17 years.

1,954 games.

1,664 hits.

1,065 runs batted in.

275 home runs.

In the playoffs 16 out of 17 seasons.

Four World Series rings.

And a symbol of class.  Diana Munson, widow of Yankee captain Thurman Munson, thanked Jorge for “bringing me back to baseball.”

Thanks for everything, Jorge.

(Photo of a tearful Jorge Posada announcing his retirement from professional baseball at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday by Ron Antonelli / New York Daily News)

Just want to say I credit this guy with getting me behind the plate when no one else would. Jorge is class at its finest, and when I played ball I tried to be as stand-up as him, even in the worst innings.

Reblogged: inothernews

27 April 11
nightline: Maybe you’ve been following the story about Enrico Ponzo, the Idaho rancher who after more than a decade of incompetent cattle breeding was exposed as a wanted gangster from Boston. Federal marshals tracked him down and busted him last month. The March 10 Times story paraphrased one of his Idaho buddies, Kelly Verceles, as saying that he was determined to view Ponzo only as the person he knew in Idaho. Well, fasten your seatbelts, because Verceles was just arrested for jackhammering through the foundation in Ponzo’s Idaho home, using a blowtorch to open a safe and stealing more than $100,000 in cash. The plot thickens. Incompetent cattle breeding? Sounds like a Ponzo scheme.

nightline:

Maybe you’ve been following the story about Enrico Ponzo, the Idaho rancher who after more than a decade of incompetent cattle breeding was exposed as a wanted gangster from Boston. Federal marshals tracked him down and busted him last month. The March 10 Times story paraphrased one of his Idaho buddies, Kelly Verceles, as saying that he was determined to view Ponzo only as the person he knew in Idaho. Well, fasten your seatbelts, because Verceles was just arrested for jackhammering through the foundation in Ponzo’s Idaho home, using a blowtorch to open a safe and stealing more than $100,000 in cash. The plot thickens.

Incompetent cattle breeding? Sounds like a Ponzo scheme.

Reblogged: nightline

28 March 11

GOP, Start Your Engines.

I’ll preface this article with a quote from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited:

“Can a campaign in favor of rationality be successful in the teeth of another and even more vigorous campaign in favor of irrationality?”

As the political pot sits simmering in Washington, all eyes are elsewhere, eagerly awaiting the announcement of Republican and Third-Party candidates tossing an early hat into the 2012 Presidential race.

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Posted: 1:39 PM
Long-Form Journalism Finds a Home

RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS.

17 June 10

How to Recognize Different Religious Figures from Quite a Long Way Away

Two days ago, the local news was reporting in my town. The news vans were speeding through the streets of the city and I was curious. Was there a bank robbery? Did this have something to do with the high school yearbooks they were reporting on last week? What could possibly be going on?

As it turns out, people are seeing the image of Jesus in an elm tree.

The tree has apparently attracted visitors, but from my family and friends, has attracted something much more wonderful - mockery.

The image is now dubbed “Treesus” after a half-drunken rant in a restaurant, and today we drove around town following cars with Jesus fish on the back of them hoping they would lead us to the divine pine.

But see for yourself:

Does this look like Jesus Christ?
Not to me, it doesn’t. Let’s try it from a different angle…

I don’t think it looks like Jesus at all. I think it looks more like Rowlf the Dog from the Muppets.

So maybe it shouldn’t be Treesus, but rather a Dogwood.

28 April 10
“ Journalists, by their very nature, are bums. Speaking as one, trust me. I know.
— War Journalism Professor, on journalists
31 December 09
All the News from 2009: Headlines in Graph Form

9 November 09
CT's Governor Jodi Rell will not run in 2010

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23 October 09
Ice skating bear kils Russian circus hand

From CNN

30 September 09

Going Rogue.

I was reading the local newspaper this morning and there was a short summary article about a series of vehicle thefts. One of the descriptions of the cars stolen included: “a dark forest green SUV with a prominent “Sarah Palin 2012” sticker placed on the back windshield.”

The owner’s candidate went rogue, and now his car did too!

11 September 09

An open letter to the politicians of South Carolina.

To the politicians of South Carolina,

Thanks for the memes. On behalf of ‘fake America,’ I accept and appreciate that you’ve added “YOU LIE!!” to your repertoire. I’m sure it will join, “hiking the ol’ Appalachian Trail” and “but hey, that would be going into the sexual details” in internet meme-dom, and hopefully, into everyday speech. So keep ‘em comin’.
You’re on a roll.

Love,
Fake America

10 September 09
Joe Wilson is Your Pre-Existing Condition

If you’re looking for a little bit of context, I’d go to the WaPo, who sums it up nicely. Plus, there’s a video, and who doesn’t love videos?

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh