The American Mind

Vote for Nirvana’s Nevermind as the “Most Overrated Album.”

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There’s a story involving to what extent Packers loyalty goes. I have to comment.
Sharon Rosenthal stole $3000 from her union to pay for personal expenses. Financial hardship was her excuse, but somehow her family could afford three-game Packers season tickets. (For hard core Packers nuts that’s the Gold package–A.K.A. the Milwaukee games.) The judge […]

Probably more important to the Packers’ offense is the rushing prowess of pro bowler Ahman Green. Getting arrested for domestic violence could be a problem.
Green Bay Packers running back Ahman Green was arrested Tuesday after a domestic violence incident.
The Brown County sheriff’s department said deputies went to his residence after a 911 call ended […]

Boxing Alcibiades hosts this week’s Bonfire of the Vanities.

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527s may have been cool last year, but if the “527 Reform Act of 2005,” a Sen. John McCain product, gets passed we’ll all be talking about plastic explosives. Byron York sees C4s as the next stage in the never ending cat-and-mouse game between political campaign contributors and the free speech squelchers who think money […]

If I read any more stories about how liberal Catholics are ticked that conservative Pope Benedict XVI was elected I’ll hurl. Over 80% of American Catholics polled were supportive of Benedict’s election. Even a majority of the “modernizers” i.e. liberals backed him.
“Most U.S. Catholics Support Choice of Pope” [via Patrick Ruffini]

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Does Sen. Harry Reid even read the constitution? Because he sure doesn’t know the filibuster isn’t in it. But why bother when using the words “constitutional checks and balances” are good talking points?
There is widespread concern about throwing away 200 years of constitutional checks and balances in order to get seven judges on the bench […]

Indirectly TAM made Google News. I cross-posted my Putin post to Redstate.org, and Google’s computers picked it up and put it on the front page:

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is looking down the proverbial tunnel and sees a good chance of the end to the judicial filibuster. He knows there are at least 50 votes (plus VP Cheney’s tiebreaker) to change Senate rules–not constitutional checks and balances like Lefty activists want you to believe. Thus he wants to negotiate […]

That noise means a new Carnival of the Capitalists hosted by Peaktalk.

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On what how the Packers have to respond to the Lions drafting Mike Williams, Slide writes, “Quick, Bates, stuff several hundred Jobe’s Plant Spikes into smurf Ahmad Carroll’s….power drink.”
“Detroit is Stacked”

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OxBlog’s Josh Chafetz pointed out something I missed about the BBC aiding hecklers at a Conservative Party function (emphasis mine):
Last night, the BBC claimed that the exercise was part of a “completely legitimate programme about the history and art of political heckling” and said that other parties’ meetings were being “observed”. However, The Telegraph has […]

The collapse of Soviet Union was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” That’s what Vladimir Putin told Russian officials.
Funny, I see the rise of the Communist Superpower as a much greater “geopolitical catastrophe.” Does Putin imply that he longs for the return of the Soviet empire? Does he long for the days where billions […]

Steve Silver mentioned to me a “fawning” piece in The Weekly Standard on the “most spaced out pols I’ve ever met.” Rudy must have a knack at picking good staff. Because from my limited experience with Boschwitz he needed them to make sure he walked into the right resturant to meet campaign supporters.
Oh, by the […]

Reuters must have gotten bored with ripping on Pope Benedict. One of their stories calls him merely an “austere conservative.” Plus, they put it near the end of the piece.
“New Pope Sets Store by Lost Traditions”

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