He’s making the Mariners into a real team. He’s a real GM, making real trades, trades with real value. He’s Obama, coming in and in short order sweeping after years of his predecessor’s complete mismanagement. He has traded away JJ Putz (unneeded excellent closer given the M’s suckitude), Sean Green (good reliever), Jeremy Reed (basic [...]

I’m really hoping for a lifetime of uneasy sleep for Shrub. Furtive, shame-filled glances at his own reflection in mirrors, too painful for more than a split-second of eye contact with such soul-crushing failure. Covetous eyeing of other folks’ drinks, beginning a long, tormented inner struggle which ends in characteristic, inevitable, humiliating failure when he’s [...]

This administration is essentially done, now: it’s the weekend, most folks are done, a skeleton crew remains for the weekend and the federal holiday on Monday, and then Obama is sworn in. What to think about that? Well, politicians are politicians, which means that the Good are a gnat’s eyelash better than the Bad. Of [...]

May it exceed our expectations. I always start the new year in a hopeful mood, and this year, more than previous years, I’m hoping that the overall news of the world gets better. With Bush leaving the White House, it already has a leg up on two-thousands oh through eight.