Logic and a great source say it’s the Rosewood Crescent. But the Crescent folks say, “No way. But if they were here, we’d put a jinx on ’em like we did the Yankees.” So–just in case somebody wants to keep the team up all night blaring Beck’s “Loser”–where are the S.F. Giants staying around here? Tom Hicks’ digs? The Super 8 in Bedford? Anybody heard?
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So C.J. Wilson has apparently had that blister that ultimately took him out of the game last night for a while. He’s been keeping it together with Super Glue, which has to sting.
Only, apparently, that may have not been exactly kosher.
Also, I promise there will come a day when there will be no need to write about the Rangers for a few months. Let us all pray right now that it’s sometime next Friday, and not Monday.
Woot! blogger Jason Toon, a Cardinals fan, has a few words of advice for angsty Rangers fans.
Oh readers. How I would like to deliver a swift kick to Buster Posey’s generously proportioned teeth. What self-respecting adult human goes by that name? May he be drawn and quartered, and may the resulting stumps burst into pillars of everlasting flame.
Anyway! It’s Halloween weekend in Dallas, and I’ve found plenty of great distractions for you. Jump and learn.
I mean, come on. Jerks. (Photo by Tom Allen)
The Vanity Index from Slate (their highly scientific methodology is recounted here) disappoints me. I cannot believe that John Cornyn allowed himself to be beat by John Kerry, of all people. Cornyn only came in #9 against Kerry’s #1. True, Kerry is astonishly vain, but then again, we’re told constantly that everything is supposed to be bigger in Texas. (And, Kay Bailey, your rank as only “moderately vain” is a real letdown.)
1. Whimper.
2. Â Ever since I watched this movie, which won a passel of Emmys, I’ve been a big fan of Temple Grandin. Yesterday, she was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth.
3. Fact: Every party has a pooper. Sometimes his name is Tim Lincecum and sometimes its an anonymous neighbor in Rowlett. Fact.
4. Saturday First Baptist Church will detonate some Jesus explosives (not to be confused with Justice Explosives) to blow up old buildings so they can make a bigger, more godly giant building. This story says neighbors are complaining, but it only interviews one neighbor. But she’s plenty peeved for everyone, I ‘spose.
5. So we made it to Friday. There are explosions this weekend, and the Rangers are totally gonna win at home. And Halloween happens Sunday. Â And it’s the weekend. We like weekend.
Soak it in, gang. Claw. Antlers. Beat Camp Mohawk.
Okay, it’s not the real one in D.C. (I believe our own Laura Kostelny will be attending that one and, if we’re lucky, regaling us all with a trip report. No pressure.) But the satellite event, at Lee Harvey’s, does look fun, with Rawlins Gilliland, Bill Holston, and Angela Hunt speaking, and Shibboleth performing, and me doing what I just did here — typing out something that is clearly visible in a nearby flyer/photo. More info here. I will try to be in attendance, if I can trick my son into doing something he has absolutely zero interest in, which I might, since I have fooled him into regularly talking to me. Also, I want to see if I can get this awesome shirt.
Yes, yes. Game 2 is tonight. Most of us right now are not thinking about the way that football go, especially considering that the Cowboys’ season ended Monday night with the snap of Romo’s clavicle and the loss to that other Giants team. But the Super Bowl is nigh upon us. We’ve got just 100 days to go. And to remind everyone, they held a luncheon today out at the Death Star. A report from intern Valeria Turturro follows after the jump.
The gist of the arguments I’m getting are: (1) He’s a really good guy. (2) The cases are really complicated. (3) Melody McDonald at the Star-Telegram wrote a nice story about him on something else. (4) His Libertarian opponent, Bob Shelton, is running against him in retribution for being ruled against in his court, which Shelton appealed and lost. (5) Yes, the judge may have a penchant for depending too much on expert testimony from professionals employed by nursing homes and others who have a financial interest in retaining control of the individuals in question, and yes, he sometimes doesn’t listen to or even allow evidence on the other side, but… (6) He was rated qualifed or very qualified by 96% of the respondents to a Tarrant County Bar Association survey, as opposed to Shelton’s 51% rating.
We report. You decide.
From DC StreetsBlog:
Streetsblog: Why should conservatives support public transportation?
Glen Bottoms: We have three main reasons that we pitch to other conservatives. One is that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Right now 90 percent of recoverable oil is controlled by foreign governments, most of which don’t wish us very well. Second is economic development. We’ve found that using streetcars in cities downtown spawns development. And third is that conservatives are traditional. Streetcars are a way to preserve neighborhoods by effectively promoting neighborhood cohesion and vitality.
ding ding ding ding. We have a winner.
Car companies like to portray that their product equates to freedom. It is a simple notion, that you can get in your car and drive wherever you want. Because it is a simple notion, it plays well with the idiot wing of the conservative party (of which Lind and Bottoms are not members).
The problem arises when all of our spending favors car travel that we are all literally forced to drive and that is the only acceptable and/or practical means of transportation. As we posted yesterday, they quite like that monopoly, thank you. However, 1) monopolies hardly fit in the conservative notion of market/competition-driven free market capitalism. 2) Gas taxes only pay for about half of our roads, the rest come out of taxes. 3) Gas is subsidized and the true cost is somewhere between $6 and $16/gallon (if you factor in military spending to secure oil). 4) Our gas spending predominantly goes to unstable foreign regimes.
So, in sum, we have no CHOICE in transportation, we are taxed excessively, we bail out auto industry, we support foreign dictatorships and presumably indirectly fund terrorism, and we drive budgets into the red. How is ANY of that conservative?