Stone’s Alexander? Don’t Bother

John Podhoretz at The Corner on National Review Online seems to think the movie has a few problems:

“Oliver Stone’s Alexander, which opens today, isn’t just bad. It’s Springtime for Hitler bad. I haven’t guffawed this hard since I saw

Michael Goodwin thinks Dan Rather’s fall to be Nixonian.
He may have a point. A good read, he certainly has.

Good to see Billy Beck’s Two–Four back online following a case of server transition-itis.

Welcome back, Billy.

MSNBC is reportng that Steinbrenner is offering Pedro Martinez $50m to come over from the Sox. Pedro for his part, is holding out for $60M. It’s perhaps a measure of how much last year’s season stung the Yankees, that Steinbrenner

ABC News::

“Dan Rather announced today he will step down as anchor and managing editor of the ‘CBS Evening News’ on March 9, 2005 “

My views about Rather are well known. For first time readers; I hold him

Cave News and Views has the details. Gee, just a week ago we were told it was Usama BinLaden. He’s still trying to dodge the blame for his loss, I guess.
Still, one can see his point; Someone not telling

It occurs to me that this gent sounds rather a lot like a Bit’sBlog regular, Serpent.

An interesting argument going on, on this thread.

BBC NEWS is reporting that a new vid game has some folks upset because it involves Shooting Presdient Kennedy.

Ironic, that. wasn’t this the same country whose newspapers asked when it was cler that Presdient Bush had won re-election… words

The New York Sun is reporting something of interest regarding Clinton and funding:

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. – President Clinton’s new $165 million library here was funded in part by gifts of $1 million or more each from the Saudi royal

Jen at The Greatest Jeneration makes note that a number of Sunni clerics are calling for their flocks to ignore the upcoming election, claiming they would be ‘disenfranchised’. Muses Jen:

Why do the Iraqi Sunnis sound so much like our

Cajon pass is uder a blanket of White as this is written, and I-15 though the pass is closed. Weird. I know the area well due to some railfanning I did in the pass right next to I-15 some years

My long-form for the week is up.
It’s about the events in the NBA this past weekend.
It’s title:
It’s not Basketball anymore.

NBA commissioner David Stern should get the Oscar for best actor.

No, I’m serious. Did you catch his act last night, giving his pronouncements on who would be gone for how many games? Can anyone looking at this guy even

AP is now saying :

“NEW YORK (AP) – The NBA suspended four players indefinitely Saturday for their roles in one of the worst-ever brawls in the league, a fight with fans that commissioner David Stern called “shocking, repulsive and

… and a basketball game broke out! AP has the details.

I’ll withold comments until I see some greater detail. I will however tell you that I’ve not been wacthing Basketball since the middle 80’s, when I followed the Celtics.