Bithead’s Greatest Hits:(11-19-04) It’s Not Basketball, Anymore

Bit notes: Given we are dealing with the NBA playoffs, such as they are, just now, I thought it appropriate to dredge up this old chestnut:

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

No,

Not a good day to be named Mike.  ABC News is reporting, the less than shocking news, that Mike Nifong has been disbarred:

Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong has been disbarred after being found guilty of a battery of

The Associated Press has reported Mike Nifong has resigned:

RALEIGH, N.C. – A tearful Mike Nifong said Friday he will resign as district attorney after admitting that he made improper statements about three Duke University lacrosse players who were once

I pulled the article from Don Surber‘s paper, by design.   Kind wonder why Don skipped this one over.  Oh well.

One major difference between real folks, with common sense, like the writers here, and the media and political aristocracy

Classic Economics says that if price goes up, then demand goes down.  Yet leftards have been trying to ignore economic reality by mindlessly demanding that the price of murder be ignored so as not to offend their sensibilities.

Liberals oppose

I’m getting more than a little bit tired of this kind of nonsense from people that ought to know better .

Via WorldNetDaily we have Ann Coulter in all her glory: Bush’s America: Roach motel in which she rants about

Everybody on the planet that has a web site was discussing the subject of Paris Hilton yesterday, and how she was headed back to jail.  I must admit watching the whole thing with a certain level of satisfaction. How, after

President George W. Bush has had the shear audacity to nominate for surgeon general a canidate who challenges the liberal mantra that homosexual behavior ought to treated as if it were normal.  Jake Tapper reports for ABC.

President Bush’s

TMZ has learned that Paris Hilton DID have to undergo a cavity search as part of the booking process at the jail.

The NY Post reported this morning that Paris was not required to undergo the customary ‘bend over and

Bob Lewis, Associated Press, writes of Barack Obama trying  to play the race card:

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a “quiet riot” among blacks

Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light, has a great photo esssay of urban warfare in Germany:

ROSTOCK, Germany (AFP)

An estimated 100,000 protestors from anti-globalisation and anti-war groups will gather in this northeastern German port on Saturday to

Noted in passing:

That Dutch TV show about the dying woman with the kidney she was trying to  select someone to receive as if it was some kind of game show? It’s all a hoax.

Personally, I had always thought

Hate is an idea and ideas, as unexpressed speech, are protected constitutional rights.  The sage of Idaho, Clayton Cramer writes of the fascists who trample freedom of speech to promote their personal views of acceptable sexual behavior:

I’ve said it

Billy, home just yesterday, has apaprently recovered enough to start writing again, in this case about the monster being hatched on the American people, known as the “immigration bill “.

I am a lot more concerned with the implications for

Ann Althouse blogs about a horrible way for women to meet eligible men. “When women take classes in tennis, wine-tasting, sailing, etc., in the hope of meeting men:”

Men prefer to look at something they have decided to