As usual, the Yankees are in the playoffs and my Mets are in the toilet. Even so, I’d prefer the Yanks to beat the Sox, so GO YANKEES!
Month: October 2004
Welcome to Planet Republican
I try to avoid the tit-for-tat aspects of politics but this one is so indicative of the dreamland you have to be living in to believe the right-wing spin, and so personally offensive, I had to mention it:
Sinclair vice president Mark Hyman just said on CNN that Kerry and the Democrats are like “holocaust deniers” and that if the Sinclair stunt is an “in-kind donation to George Bush” then “every suicide bomb that goes off in Iraq is an in-kind donation to John Kerry.”
Presumably this was just down from on-air within the last hour. So I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the quotes. But a quite look at this morning’s Post shows that yesterday Hyman said “the networks are acting like Holocaust deniers” for not showing the POWs’ story. So I think there’s every reason to believe that the quotes are accurate.
Per a Kos diary and Josh Marshall.
RIP Christopher Reeve
I had the great pleasure of seeing Christopher Reeve on Broadway in 1986 at Circle in the Square, in a production of Beaumarchais’ “The Marriage of Figaro” — the play which Mozart used as the basis for his opera of the same name. Reeve played the Count and did it admirably. He was a much better actor than the “Superman” movie and its sequels ever let him show.
A few years later, I briefly worked at the Williamstown Summer Theater Festival while Reeve was rehearsing a production of “Undiscovered Country”. I never crossed paths with him, to my great disappointment, but word of mouth was that he was a cool guy.
It’s sad that a man who took a shattering personal tragedy and turned it into something positive did not live to see significant progress made towards a cure for spinal cord injuries. I hope something good comes from his passing.
Dred Scott = Roe v Wade?
Interesting meme out there today: Bush’s citing of Dred Scott was not some odd piece of prose, but rather code to his anti-abortion followers.
Orcinus has a long historical overview of what “Strict Constructionists” really means. Worth a read.
Kos Gets Snarky
Kos doesn’t usually indulge in snarkiness (the Diaries do it for him most of the time) but he had a funny bit tonight:
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Welcome Skawt
My husband Skawt has been doing some work with Movable Type at work and is getting more interested in blogging. I’ve set him up as an author here at Fiat Lux. So if the tone of a post should sound a little different from usual, check the author — it’s probably Skawt!
Welcome aboard, honey.