As it turns out, I’ll have time to check in with you all tomorrow.
Meanwhile, consider this your opportunity to talk about whatever comes to mind: Karl Rove’s departure, Chinese-made toys, or the New York Yankees, who these days are presiding over the only surge that actually seems to be working.
Unlike, for instance, one that seems to be seems to be working.
Fanny Roborat
22 comments
dee
August 14, 2007 at 12:04 pm
1Since I only root for the Yankees when they’re playing Cleveland, may I say “Thank You” for that lovely series last week.
But that was last week. This week the Tribe is in town for two games the Tigers MUST win. And then the Yankees come in for the weekend.
And speaking of the Yankees, RIP Scooter.
SeattleDan
August 14, 2007 at 12:44 pm
2Only the Yankees? How about my Mariners?
It's Pat!
August 14, 2007 at 2:42 pm
3Twins? Well you can just forget about it, don’t you know. They should have bought some bats before they play a game, eh?
gillian
August 14, 2007 at 3:49 pm
4Hi guys. Last weekend was terrific! Heather, two friends from Rutland - James and Vivian - and I hiked up Camelback Mountain near Killington in northern Vermont. The vegetation at the top was very much like what I saw in Moosenee, Ont. about 350 miles north on here. Very tundra like. So were the mosquitoes and the wind; surprisingly chilly. I’m glad I’ve learned to pack a sweatshirt since moving up here. Heather’s a native and it doesn’t seem to affect her at all. I guess you can figure out which one of us brings the wood in come winter.
Back to Camelback, there’s a cargo plane from WWII crashed on the side of the mountain and at one time there was a trail down to it, but no more. All grown up now. James said he used to walk down to it when he was a a kid. Trees were growing through it even back then, so there’s probably not much to see these days.
And since it is Tuesday and we talking about high places…
Dirk's Diary
August 14, 2007 at 6:54 pm
58-14-07
Dear Diary,
We’ve been monitoring the wildfires around Yellow Pine the last few days and just now heard news of Karl Rove resigning at the end of the month. Good. I’ve still got a splitting headache from that Mind Meld ceremony and all the “sports drinks” Josh Bolton forced down us after the Indian Wrestling Match in the East Room - the “boys” against Elaine Chou (Damn! She’s good!! I’ve still got quite a shiner.). That was a really foul and evil concoction; I’m glad Jeffery emptied 6 clips into them. It reminded me of the final scene from Bonnie and Clyde, where the Feds drilled the fugitives full of lead.
Karl’s going to have to start putting more of an effort into fobbing off the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subpoenas. I’m sure he thinks he can wear down the Democrats with continuances and writs and walk away, in the end, a free man. If I were Karl I’d start polishing up the alien abduction stories and the dropped-on-his-head-during-the -birthing-process excuses. I shouldn’t worry about Karl, though; if there’s one thing he’s good at, it’s telling the preposterous lie and making it believable. In that respect, the boy is a genius. We’ll miss him around here - the bloom is definitely off the Turd Blossom.
Dirk
David
August 14, 2007 at 6:55 pm
6O’Hanlon and Pollack - shills are shills, in this case shameless shills hoping their own reputations can be saved, although it’s hard for me to see how this kind of hucksterism can restore them to that place of legitimate, respected commentary they so vaingloriously abandoned (I am, of course, allowing for the possibility they were once intellectually honest and genuinely enlightened). Besides, if Dick Cheney approves of what is said, well…
Mets (for me) or Phillies (for my dad, now wheeling around in that silver Thunderbird) v. dee’s Tigers for all the marbles. Sorry, SeattleDan, but dee and siobhan have first dibs on the American League pennant, provided their Tigers don’t take a nap.
Meanwhile, Dean has the possibility of becoming Mean Dean and visiting his wrath on Florida. Hope he’s not on an ego trip and determined to outdo Charley just because he’s one letter and a week later into the season.
Fran
August 14, 2007 at 7:06 pm
7What are the odds that Rove is leaving because he’s outlined each and every thing the Shrub is going to do and say for the next…what is it, seventeen months? What else is there to do? Besides, if he gets out now, he can be tried and convicted of something in time for his good buddy to pardon him completely.
Or am I just being cynical?
David
August 14, 2007 at 7:46 pm
8Fran,
As Dammit-I-can’t-think-of-her-name said, “No matter how cynical you become, you just can’t keep up.”
Meanwhile, this is just too good:
print share 08.14.07 — 8:45PM // link
Summa Brownnosica
Jon Chait finds the one remaining member of the Rove personality cult: Fred Barnes.
Barnes on Rove: “Rove is the greatest political mind of his generation and probably of any generation.”
Actually the whole quote is even better: “Rove is the greatest political mind of his generation and probably of any generation. He not only is a breathtakingly smart strategist but also a clever tactician. He knows history, understands the moods of the public, and is a visionary on matters of public policy. But he is not a magician.”
In other words, celebrate him as an intellectual giant among men. Don’t fault him for not being God. Is it not enough that he walked among us?
Sadder than reading this stuff is realizing that Barnes probably means every word of it.
–Josh Marshall
Dale
August 14, 2007 at 8:38 pm
9Hey, Vinnie. I´m going to see the Tigs (Dee and Siobhan´s Tigers? Sniff…) at Yankee Stadium this Thursday and Saturday. I might need some backup–you busy?
Hanna
August 14, 2007 at 9:19 pm
10Lily Tomlin.
SeattleDan
August 14, 2007 at 10:27 pm
11Sorry, David, the Tigers had their chance last year. They couldn’t come up with a pitcher who could make a fielding play to third base.
Sorry. I’ve gotta lot of Tiger pitchers on my fantasy team, none of whom are named Verlander.
Vinnie
August 15, 2007 at 2:23 am
12Yo, Dale, w’adda coincidence! I’m goin’ be der in Brooklyn dis weekend, doing some leg woik fa Mr. DeLay (leg breakin’ is more like it). I was gonna catch da’ Sattaday game, but I’ll be cheerin’ an’ bein’ a fool in general fa’ da Tigers, so maybe we shoodn’t sit togedda. We coul’ hav’ dinner afta da game and den head out ta Jones Beach on Sunday mornin’, but ya gotta promise ta say naughty t’ings ta me in Spanish. I really like dat - a lot.
David
August 15, 2007 at 5:23 am
13Thanks, Hanna.
SeattleDan, who do you think it’s going to be on the AL side?
SeattleDan
August 15, 2007 at 12:07 pm
14David, looks like a toss-up to me. At the moment I’d say the Angels, RedSox, Detroit, with a wild card of possibly the Indians, Yankees, or (I hope), the Mariners. In all honesty, I think that both Cleveland and New York have better teams. But a guy can dream!
gillian
August 15, 2007 at 3:23 pm
15Sadly, this is depressingly similar to my last remodeling job.
cooper
August 15, 2007 at 3:51 pm
16BTW, Adam’s bud, Christian Finnegan, was on Countdown last night and helped Keith with the analysis of Britney Spears latest venture into the public domain. I always have better luck playing the videos on the Countdown website by going via IE rather than Mozilla.
Dale
August 15, 2007 at 4:38 pm
17Vinnie, sounds great. Te amo, mi asesino querido, mi tigre italiano, la salsa a mis enchiladas…
Just Jay
August 15, 2007 at 5:00 pm
18David #8 and Hanna #10
I thought it was Molly Ivins. It sort of sounds like her style.
Jay
sharon
August 15, 2007 at 6:31 pm
19Best quote on Turd Blossom’s departure, from a comment by ‘locust.’
“I won’t believe Rove is really gone until the White House denies it.”
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/15/3177/
Mojo
August 15, 2007 at 7:08 pm
20As it turns out, I’ll have time to check in with you all tomorrow.
In fairness to Adam, he did say that he would have time to check in, not that he would actually do it. That kind of technically accurate but completely misleading statement makes me pretty sure I know who Karl Rove’s new boss is. Let me be the first to jump on the Felber ‘08 bandwagon.
SeattleDan
August 15, 2007 at 9:21 pm
21I dunno. Sniff. I think Adam doesn’t love us anymore. Bawl. Sniff.Sniff. Bawl again.
David
August 16, 2007 at 8:04 am
22Just Jay,
I had written it down when I came across it somehwere, but still can’t find my note to myself. Hanna’s correct: it was Lily Tomlin. I think it was back during Viet Nam/Watergate - you know, one of those benchmark eras of government honesty.
SeattleDan, nothing wrong with dreaming. And maybe Adam doesn’t love us any less, either.