Ringing in 2008
December 31, 2007Happy New Year, and don’t forget to watch the Penguins decimate the Sabres New Year’s Day at 1 p.m. on NBC.
Archive for December 2007
Bill Kristol at the Times
December 30, 2007This announcement reads like a parody of lefty self-flagellation: The Times Adds an Op-Ed Columnist Echoing this thing, it’s pretty tough to argue that rightist media is more self-critical when you examine this dealie: you have a commentator dude who’s not only kept up his unflinching pro-war thing even as the rationale looks worse and […]
One More Pakistan Thing
December 28, 2007For a note on just why this stuff matters, you can read this paper, particularly the last paragraph.
Bhutto
December 27, 2007Pakistan really can’t catch a break. If you were Musharraf, would you go ahead with January’s elections knowing that everything is in even more turmoil than before, or would you risk the nation getting even more pissed after another suspension of democracy? (Or here, “democracy”, considering that independent media had been banned from election coverage.) […]
Return of the Steeler Funerary Rites
December 19, 2007The Post-Gazette wrote that another fan tied his memorial rites in with the Steelers, this time by having the Steelers logo carved into his gravestone and having his wife bring his ashes to the game on Sunday. This story was kind of bittersweet, in that he died having never fulfilled his wish to go to […]
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Busch-Swilling Bolsheviks
December 18, 2007This one goes out to my senior-year apartment crew. I was once discussing political philosophy with my dad, and we both agreed that under ideal theoretical conditions, a socialist utopia could be pretty cool: from abilities according to needs and all that lot. (Before someone from the future reads that and declares me a godless […]
Diamond Dave
December 18, 2007If you had to set Pittsburgh to music, I always imagine the soundtrack to be early-era Van Halen. (Think Van Halen and 1984.) Particularly “Cradle Will Rock” and “Runnin’ With the Devil”. This is almost solely attributable to WDVE.
Argumentative
December 15, 2007I’ve noticed lately that I write much more clearly when responding to something than I do when initiating the discussion myself. Am I alone in this? Perhaps it’s time for more self-debating on the site. Duality of Pat, here we come.
Pittsburgh At Its Dumbest
December 12, 2007It seems that Kennywood Park — Pittsburgh icon and the scene of such Pat Stack childhood highlights as the Jackrabbit Double-Dip and the time that I puked after getting riding the Pirate Ship — has been sold to the Spanish amusement-park company Parques Reunidos. This is after more than 100 years of being owned by […]
Strangest Brand Partnering of the Day
December 11, 2007I just saw this today: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/fox-news-for-iphone/ Fox News and Apple? That one just strikes me as a really unlikely pairing. But maybe Apple devotees have become so contrarian-cool that they’ve abandoned the leftist political views of the urban traditional-cool and embraced right-wing viewpoints as a sarcastic collective paean to right-wing America.