Chris Lynch's slanted view on sports, politics and entertainment. Please send thoughts or comments to chris.lynch@gmail.com
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Tucker Carlson Episode 26 with Bill O'Reilly. Less than 10 million views as I type this.
- Paul Graham's essay on Cities and Ambition. From 2008 but new to me. Remember there's a difference between a "great" city and a "shithole."
- Morgan Housel on the Written Word. Good writing advice.
- The NHL has returned. To be honest I haven't watched a second of Bruins preseason action.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- What happened to the actors who were performing the night Abraham Lincoln was shot. (HT Daddy Pundit)
- Matt Taibbi: Rachael Maddow is Bill O'Reilly. "With Maddow in the lead role, MSNBC has become Fox, but somehow more craven, jingoistic, and shameless."
- The Irish academic who s getting his PhD in Irish "Ghost Whiskeys." Very cool. (HT Daddy Pundit)
- Bari Weiss: You have to read this letter. Loved this line, "But speak up you must. There is strength in numbers and I assure you, the numbers are there." Bravo!
As recently as July, the Democratic presidential candidate declined to rate the surge a success, but said it had helped reduce violence in the country. On Thursday, Obama acknowledged the 2007 increase in U.S. troops has benefited the Iraqi people.This quote from Obama in which he basically refuses to admit he was wrong about the surge made me think of the movie Jaws.Remember when the shark first bites through the piano wire when Hooper thought it was some sort of game fish but then refused to admit it was a shark? Quint said, "Well it proves one thing, Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys don't have the education enough to admit when you're wrong."
“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,” Obama said while refusing to retract his initial opposition to the surge. “I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”
