I ran across this peculiar line in a Dallas Morning News editorial today:
It is extremely unlikely that, say, a brilliant ideologue like Justice Antonin Scalia could make it through Senate confirmation today.
A brilliant ideologue?
Clearly, Justices Scalia and Thomas are the most conservative justices on the Supreme Court. And Scalia is regarded by most Court watchers as a significant intellect.
But does the fact he’s a brilliant conservative jurist make him an ideologue?
And if
Dan Patrick launched his latest endeavor today: the Lone Star Times.
Unfortunately, Patrick’s successor to Chronically Biased doesn’t render properly in Firefox, so it’s hard to say much about the thing.
Here’s wishing them well in their new project, though, which seems to be the “internet newspaper” that Patrick has longed for.
Meanwhile, a few of us refugees from internet newspaperdom are doing exactly what we want to be doing over at blogHOUSTON.
May Chronically Biased Rest
There was a bit of excitment near the Galleria where I work earlier today.
KTRK-13 reports:
A cabbie has been shot and his cab stolen Tuesday afternoon.
It all happened at the intersection of Sage and West Alabama right behind the Galleria. Houston police took a person into custody a short time later, but it’s not known if that person was being considered a suspect.
The cabbie was taken by ambulance to the hospital. He is expected to
Okay, Dan Patrick just said on KSEV that he can’t imagine John Kerry and Theresa Heinz Kerry having sex together.
Ewwww, why would anybody try to imagine that in the first place?
Of course, some people don’t have the good sense to keep some things private themselves!
He who casts stones….
(Update) Speaking of the website publisher, it is just a bizarre thing to announce that there are zero days left until the launch of the next
Sunday’s Daily Oklahoman attempts to spin the Sooners’ running up the score with a cheap passing touchdown at the end of Saturday’s game:
Oklahoma took two shots at the end zone in the final moments of its blistering of Kansas.
And there was nothing wrong with it.
Such is the state of college football. With a BCS formula geared toward human polls — or so we’re told — appearances are important for highly ranked teams like the Sooners.