Monthly Archives: November 2007

A Major Reason To Watch Fox News Is That It Is Not CNN

As you’ve undoubt­edly heard, Demo­c­ra­tic activist oper­a­tives got to ask plenty of “gotcha” ques­tions dur­ing a tele­vised Repub­li­can pri­mary debate that were only designed to make the Repub­li­can party as a whole look bad. CNN, of course, denies that their host­ing and fil­ter­ing out par­tic­i­pants for the debate was biased in any way. After all, …

November 30, 2007 – 3:14 pm | By ashok | Posted in media, politics | Tagged | Comments (3)

Fun in Russia

From Michael Weiss in the Weekly Stan­dard: Accord­ing to one of his other lawyers, Karinna Moskalenko, Kas­parov has wisely shunned all food and water pro­vided to him by the author­i­ties, going on what may be history’s first self-preserving hunger strike, and he has been given no phone call or vis­i­ta­tion rights. Tech­no­rati Tags: rus­sia, putin, …

November 29, 2007 – 3:44 pm | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (1)

Is It Possible To Insist On A More Thoughtful Politics?

What is below are merely notes. I have a few ideas and this is a grop­ing for a quick and dirty solu­tion to the ques­tion. I am more than will­ing to take all of this back and advance some­thing more sub­tle later. Cer­tainty, fidelity On the stroke of mid­night pass Like vibra­tions of a bell, And …

November 27, 2007 – 4:19 pm | By ashok | Posted in auden, poetry, politics | Comments (6)

On the 11/25 Sunday Night Eagles-Patriots Game, and Why I’m Not Praising Andy Reid

1. I want to thank John Mad­den for actu­ally doing a great job of announc­ing and explain­ing key things hap­pen­ing dur­ing the game. He picked up on Patri­ots tak­ing away the side­line throws and play­ing a soft zone inside; thus, the Eagles receivers mak­ing catches (like the Detroit game in one way) wasn’t too sur­pris­ing …

November 26, 2007 – 11:01 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (2)

German

Please feel sorry for me. I feel sorry for me.I’m try­ing to trans­late this arti­cle from Ger­man to Eng­lish and I’m going over what I have trans­lated and sent to the pro­fes­sor and I just can’t believe the non­sense I have sent. It is utterly ungram­mat­i­cal. As I fix the trans­la­tion, I do make it …

November 25, 2007 – 6:37 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (1)