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September 21, 2005
Early Morning Edition
(1) Certfied Bananas breaking news! New website! New mix up! New mixes on the way! Sam and Max are winning big, and that's good: if their life were a movie, you'd be rooting for them. And so would the rest of America.
(2) Plus, P-Nice's band Miss Fairchild is playing Sin-e this Friday at 8:30. I'ma be there, and you should too: sources say they do a killer cover of Housequake.
(3) Shout to TLC for having so many hits. I wasn't 100% feeling tonight's R U The Girl finale - cardboard whitebread host, weird product placements (dogpile.com??), lack of riveting group interactions - but when T-Boz and Chilli performed the back catalogue, everything got all misty in my living room.
(4) Finally, big shout to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for not taking any evasive guff and declaring his intent to vote against Roberts's impending confirmation. By standing up tall when it counts instead of biting his tongue, I think Reid is redefining the contours of this vote - not to mention the one looming in the wings. I can see the "pragmatic" arguments against both (a) announcing his intent and (b) voting no at all, but I can't abide by my party rolling over and letting such an ominously blank slate of a Judge waltz in with their blessing. Dems are fooling themselves by somehow imagining that by giving Roberts a free pass, Bush and Rove will be encouraged to select a more moderate candidate than they otherwise would. Plus, there are principles involved - it's the PRINCIPALITIES of the thing! "Illegal amigos"? God save our country...
Explaining his decision on Judge Roberts, Mr. Reid said in his Senate speech that he simply had "too many unanswered questions" about the nominee, who he complained had refused to distance himself from seemingly callous writings while a lawyer for the Reagan administration, including a memorandum in which he used the term "illegal amigos" to refer to illegal immigrants."I'm not too sure," Mr. Reid later told reporters, "if his heart is as big as his head."
Posted by caps at September 21, 2005 12:31 AM