The Stores, Christmas, And Looking Though the Glass

To my everlasting amazement, the response to last week’s grump was more positive than I expected. Certainly, it was more positive than I was. (Granted, that being more positive than I was last week is not, by definition, all that

I don’t know as I can put into words exactly why this story struck me. I made note of this this morning, on the drive into the office. I’m not sure, but I think it was WPHT in Philly I

OK… just stop what you’re doing and go read Ann’s new column.

Now.

James at Outside The Beltway is linking a story from Fox saying John Danforth is resigning his post as US Ambassador to the UN. James seems ot think it somewhat strange that he’d be resigning so soon after he got

Chinese takeaway for IBM’s PC business? – vnunet.com

I’m hearing some heavy chatter from internal sources on this.
Watch this story, folks… it’s large.

Reilly , over at Right Voices makes note of somehting I’ve been watching, too, but have thusfar refused comment on, thinking it a non-mover, frankly…. The continued recount efforts in Ohio.

Reilly apparently doesn’t understand Kamp Kerry’s continued efforts in

Ty Willingham has been canned at ND. And frankly, I was wondering when they’d get around to it.

Here’s a clue for the race baiting hucksters trying to say the reason for Willingham firing was overt racism on the part

John Leo has the details, in a bit called OPEN MOUTH, INSERT FOOT

I noted C-Span’s coverage of President Bush’s comments in Halifax, which they re-ran this morning. (They do have vid up on the site today) I didn’t comment on it when it was fresh, because there was much to consider from

Some interesting BitsBlog stats: At the moment, I’m tossing up around 30 posts per week. That translates to 2200 or so posts total, since I started this Blogger venture, a year and a half ago. The Outlink ratio is around

You just know it’s a slow news day when Matt Drudge starts posting stories like this one. Sorry, but the only time you ever see this stuff is when there’s no red meat for the eveining news cycle.

Yes, I saw the bit with Tom Ridge annoucning his quitting his post.
Thing was, if you were watching, this was no shock, given we knew this was coming 6 months ago. So, I didn’t bother adding any of my

Norm Coleman writes in today’s WSJ that Kofi Annan Must Go. And while I have no question that this is a well-thought, well- intentioned bit, I find myself wondering just a bit.

Let’s please be at least honest enough

Speaking of Dan Rather, here’s the latest nonsense from Bill O’Reilly

personally I’ve never liked O’Reilly. I worked with too many people like him in the broadcast business, not to recognize a bullshit artist when I see one.  O’Reilly is

Matt Drudge is linkingThe Hollywood Reporter in a bit entitled “Rather deserves respect” which is a laughable statement. THe story itself gives us an example of why… Says Rather:

“Ed Murrow’s ghost is here. I’ve seen him and talked