Glenn Reynolds, in solidarity with his bro’ John Derbyshire on the National Review‘s “The Corner” blog, bemoans a paucity of interesting, newsworthy events:
Given the pace of events over the past few years, I think this is a good thing. Though I may have to start blogging about cookware, or razors or something if things don’t pick up.
Hmm. Maybe power tools!
Derbyshire wrote Sunday: “And… is it me, or is it a fact, that we’re going through an exceptionally dry spell news-wise? According to TV, Drudge, and America’s Newspaper of Record , the big news when I got back from Atlanta was that some outsider had won the Kentucky Derby. Zzzzzz.”
Can you help Glenn and John by suggesting some news stories they might have missed? (Those boys don’t miss much that matters to them. So maybe you can extol the virtues of all the stories they found unworthy? Or suggest sources for them beyond TV and Drudge?)
Stories:
If only Glenn and John had some of our writers on staff 🙂
— we got the CIA in Iraq, the French election, the UK election, and more
— ProfMarcus tells us about our $1.3B gift to the Pakistani military
— wonder if Glenn would post RubDMC’s daily photo
Some sources beyond Drudge and Fox:
— Free Speech TV
— Link TV, especially the Peabody-winning Mosaic (half-hour daily news show from the Middle East — you can watch it online, Glenn — http://www.linktv.org )
they’re bored by the filibuster story.
If their heart’s not in it…
I’m getting edgier as the days go by. I see this morning that Lugar says he can deliver Bolton.
Boo, do you think the Democrats would dare filibuster Bolton? Or must they save their last-hours-of-the-Alamo supply of ammo for the judges?
my inclination is to stop Bolton at all costs. We have let a stream of nominees through without too much resistance. But this one goes too far.
How that would play in the larger meta-story on the filibuster is a good question. I suspect it would highlight the extreme nature of what the GOP is trying to push on the country, but also serve as an example of ‘obstructionism’.
Overall, I think the more Bolton’s mustache and hair are in the news ‘not talking to each other’ the better it is for us.
When the Washington Post’s Style section does a long article on a hair/mustache makeover for Bolton, he might take it as a hint.
By Caesarean Section? This is invoking images and thoughts I would rather not contemplate so early in the morning.
Seriously, the Bolton confirmation, or the rewriting of Senate rules to allow the confirmation to be brought to the Senate floor, is a ‘tipping-point’ that will tell us exactly how far the GOP is willing to cave to their wing-nut wing.
The “moderates” in the Republican Party are either going to vote down the rule change, risking the wrath of the nuts, or go into the 2006 re-election season with a large turkey wrapped around their necks.
I don’t see much of a win here for the GOP but then I thought Senator Kerry would win.
The Huffington Post is up and running today with an interesting piece on a book about the Saudis.
I guess they haven’t read the UK press about the Downing Street memo… or maybe it just slipped their mind.
Brilliantly said. Take a dozen fours!
Amen, as Pastor Dan would say.
Think this’d interest them?
Meanwhile women’s rights groups have been staging rallies in Kabul following the murder of three young Afghan women. The women were found last week dumped on a roadside — they had been raped and hanged. A note found with the bodies said they were killed for working for international aid groups.
‘course it’s from the leftie Democracy Now!. But lots of newspapers have the story too.
(Hope someone diaries this horrific story.)
Well lemme see what insignificant stories Instapundit could be covering.
Shall I write Glenn and share this thread with him?
Yeah, Christ when are we gonna invade somebody?!!!
and go to Kansas where they’re retrying the monkey. Talk about a dry spell.
Tina Brown did a great segment on Kansas last night.
I like her show. So there. It’s on at 8PM PDT Sunday nights, when there isn’t anything else to tune into.
makes me wish I had TV, that there is something on that would not nauseate me. Pundits are not my cup of tea. As far as the Kansas monkey trial. I work one block away from the hearing site and haven’t seen one not one protest. Of course this is Topeka, we have our own twisted sister the great and powerful Fred Phelps, who has not one but two webs sites, one that godhatesamerica and the other godhatesgays. Damn and to think I left sunny San Diego to come to Kansas of all places. Yet here I am and had I not come here I would have never met my wife, had two beautiful children and found BooMan’s. So thank you Great Spirit and for those of you would would like, please email the Kansas Board of Education and tell them that religious teachings should be reserved for the church, if they want to teach religious studies they should include all world religions.
Here is a link to the page with their bio’s and email addresses.
http://www.ksde.org/commiss/bdaddr.html
Good luck. and may the great spirit watch over you.