Archive for January, 2009

Jack Zduriencik is my new hero

January 28th, 2009

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 like this

January 26th, 2009


What I want

January 21st, 2009

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 [...]


The Good, The Bad, and The Bush

January 17th, 2009

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 [...]


2009

January 1st, 2009

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.