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Friday, April 18, 2008

Hero/Hack: Extended Director's Cut

My heroes this week are Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, but since Gary already wrote about them, I'll also mention the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres, for playing 22 innings last night in an epic pitchers' duel:
Colorado and San Diego did just that Thursday night and into Friday morning, slogging through a 22-inning game that was the longest in the majors in nearly 15 years.

The Rockies finally won 2-1, with Troy Tulowitzki’s two-out RBI double bringing in Willy Taveras with an unearned run in nearly empty Petco Park. A game that lasted 6 hours, 16 minutes was decided by an unearned run.
Hack this week is Jimmy Carter, as his one man mission for peace (at what cost?) brought him to laying a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave. Even Obama, who wants to 'meet with our enemies' (which isn't as bad an idea as it sounds, really) was criticizing him for it.

(Dis)honorable mention goes to President Bush, for a lapse of logic worthy of note.
Bush rejected Iran's argument that its nuclear activities are intended only for a civilian energy program.

"If that's the case, why did they have a secret program?" he said at a Rose Garden news conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Now, I'm certainly not a fan of the Iranian regime, but maybe, just maybe, they were hiding their program because the United States is Hell-bent on shutting it down, and the Iranians are worried about an Iraqi invasion redux, which was over an alleged WMD program.

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Cashier Refuses to Serve Student Wearing Pro-Israel T-Shirt

Mia Lazarus put her chips and juice down on the counter and prepared to pay. But in the midst of the lunchtime rush, the cashier's eyes wandered to Lazarus's T-shirt, which expressed a political message that proved to be overwhelming for the clerk.

One glance at the words "Baltimore Zionist District" on Lazarus's "I Stand for Israel" T-shirt, and the cashier at the Maryland Food Collective, a crunchy grocery and sandwich shop in the student union on the University of Maryland's College Park campus, blurted: "Your shirt offends me. I won't ring you up." The cashier told Lazarus she could go to the back of the store to find another clerk....

If Mia was wearing a t-shirt that said 'Viva Mexico,' this would be all over the news.

WaPo, via Volokh.

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