The barber was ready. Meanwhile, Sox Savvy is worried. We all know that Manny Ramirez brings a lot of baggage to the White Sox. Here are some potential ugly scenarios I’m most worried about seeing: – Hawk Harrelson shows his support by sporting dreadlocks. – Teeny-weeny Juan Pierre plays a practical joke by hiding in [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
It’s in The Book
Left-wingers beware. God knows what you are thinking, and see what He thinks of it.
Voices of the White Sox owner
Nailing Darrin Jackson: HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE NUMBAH TWO? During Chicagos WSCR 670 AM broadcast of Fridays Yankees-White Sox game, announcer Darrin Jackson mentioned how the Yankees continue to use a recording by the late Bob Sheppard introducing Derek Jeter as he walks up to the plate at Yankee Stadium. Listeners were then treated [...]
Oiko is coming, oiko is coming
Right up front is this from Taranto: “In other Washington rally news,” observes humorist Jim Treacher of The Daily Caller, “Al Sharpton has gone from the Million Man March to the Dozen Dude Dud.” The Beck event, on the other hand, was an antidote to our current governance “by an oikophobic self-anointed elite that is [...]
Pants-on-fire extinguisher, quick!
Those Madigans can’t keep track of their in-laws, darn it. [Ill. Atty. Genl.] Lisa Madigan says she was unaware of her brother-in-law’s [lobbyist] role, according to a spokeswoman. “The attorney general didn’t know that Jordan worked for Veritec, and she did not know that her office was in contact with him about the payday loan [...]
Bad schools for a reason, says U. of Illinois prof
It’s the students, stupid! (It’s the stupid students?) The new book by sometime VDARE.com contributor Robert Weissberg, Bad Students, Not Bad Schools, has become even timelier following the recent popping of the test score bubble in New York City public schools. Weissberg, a professor of political science emeritus at the U. of Illinois, wittily surveys [...]
White as charged
It makes a body feel overwhelmingly put-upon, where Instapundit links to this .
That’s all?
Gene Kennedy outdoes himself with this paean to . . . the mystical energy of the church as the Sacramentum Mundi, the mystical mirror in which the beleaguered world can see a reflection of its profound longings and strivings. . . . . [sacraments as] static objects to be regulated rather than living symbols to [...]
Muslims with heads on shoulders
I’ve been looking for Muslims like these: Members of the American Muslim Association of Oklahoma purchased an advertisement in the Aug. 23 edition of The Oklahoman. The ad was a public appeal to the sponsors of the [Ground Zero Mosque] project to “be sensitive and respectful of the sentiments of U.S. citizens and move the [...]
