Happy Independence Day, Sarah Palin.

You may have escaped your job, but you can't escape your self-appointed patron. Bill "Always Wrong" Kristol still believes in you:

If Palin wants to run in 2012, why not do exactly what she announced today? It's an enormous gamble - but it could be a shrewd one.

adjust expectations accordingly

Buster Posey is a Prairie Chicken.

Be Very Afraid

So what's the invasion schedule dere Smiff? Fung has to know when everything's supposed to be clean & in its place & stuff.

Typical

Cub fan's hunger strike

First, I thought a hunger strike was eating NO food, not this less than I need bull$#!+. Second, you usually go on one of dese for only one reason, not dis "oh, and I'm also trying to lose weight. Seriously. Even Cub fans won't go all the way. Pathetic.

I don't think anyone anticipated racoons

Josh Outman is out 12-18 months after undergoing Tommy John surgery on Tuesday.

He also had a bone spur, a railroad tie, and a family of racoons removed from his left elbow. It's a serious blow to the A's 2010, 2011, and 2012 rotation as Outman had emerged as the staff's best starter early this season

Trib Readers - Brain Dead

See Sarge, it's not just the sportswriters. It's the readers too.

Readers vote: 'Z' ya later

The times, they are a changin'

Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

Fung went thru a coupla walkmans & discmans before the mp3 was around. That this kid found one thing that was good about that particular walkman was SHOCKING. Though that one advantage probably had more to do with the size of the thing - looks almost as big as his head, so of course there's enuff room to put a microwave, toaster & other appliances on it too!

Is there a 60-Month DL?

News item: Conor Jackson, Ari: Transferred to 60-Day DL (Pneumonia, Desert Fever, Catarrh, the Screaming S#i+s, K-Mad's Palsy, H5N1 Pandemic SUCKS, etc...)

Mistake? Unlikely...

Fox News Apologizes for Identifying Sanford as Democrat

Why is Obama sticking up for the Surly Penguin, the Prince of Darkness, the Undead Dick (Dick) "Dick" Dick Cheney?

Weismann's organization sued last year to obtain the notes from an interview that the FBI conducted with then-Vice President Dick Cheney. The interview was part of an investigation into leaks concerning undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame, and the Bush administration vigorously fought the release of the notes.

"The records contain descriptions of confidential deliberations among top White House officials which are protected by the deliberative process and presidential communications privileges," Bush's Justice Department argued in an Oct. 10, 2008, legal brief.

Obama's Justice Department held the same line Thursday.
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pretty sure there's no connection here... yep, quite certain

News item: CTA warns of service cuts
News item: DC Metro may get billions after crash

Fortunately, the L never moves fast enough to hurt anyone.
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whaaaaa?

1. Blue Ward Cyclones 215.5
2. Manky Dreadful 167.5
3. Lord Viper Elefantes 165.5

"I've got responsibilities in making certain...that we are not used as a tool to be exploited by other countries."

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An airstrike believed to have been carried out by a United States drone killed at least 60 people at a funeral for a Taliban fighter in South Waziristan on Tuesday, residents of the area and local news reports said...

The United States carried out 22 previous drone strikes this year, as the Obama administration has intensified a policy inherited from the Bush administration.

Before the attack on Tuesday, the Pakistani Army and Air Force had begun operations in South Waziristan against the forces of the Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud. The group’s suicide bombings in major cities have terrorized Pakistanis for years.

In a serious blow to Pakistan’s effort, on Tuesday an assassin loyal to Mr. Mehsud shot and killed a rival tribal leader, Qari Zainuddin, whom the government had hoped to use as an ally in its campaign to corner the Taliban leader.

EXACTLY how I remember Bangkok

News item: City wants high-rise crane removed

No work has been done on the planned 90-story building since last year, and now it stands as a shell about 27 stories tall at the southwest corner of Wacker and Clark.

Da Mare's gonna be all over dis

News item from Lancaster, Pa.: Some 165 closed-circuit TV cameras soon will provide live, round-the-clock scrutiny of nearly every street, park and other public space used by the 55,000 residents and the town's many tourists...

Years ago, there's no way we could do this," said Keith Sadler, Lancaster's police chief. "It brings to mind Big Brother, George Orwell and '1984.' It's just funny how Americans have softened on these issues."

Yes... funny... not "hah-hah" funny... more like "holy phokking s#i+" funny... but funny...
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Some winners do use drugs

Are you going to tell AC360, or should I?

AFP - US swimming star Michael Phelps won the 100m butterfly in a sizzling 50.48sec, flirting with the world record as he continued his 2009 World Championship build-up at the Canada Cup.

Phelps, who won an unprecedented eight Olympic gold medals at the Beijing Games last August, was just eight-hundredths outside the world record of 50.40 held by compatriot Ian Crocker, in Saturday's competition.

He also improved on his personal best time of 50.58sec, set in winning gold at Beijing.

why does Neil Steinberg HATE the plutocracy?

'Nowhere to go and no one to help them'

Fungrant

If the photo doesn't show the goods, it should not be called a "topless" photo. I leave you to find which one I'm talking about...

It was bound to happen

Next time I grab Sarge's iPhone I shall search for dis...

Well, this is amazing...