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Archive for January 9th, 2006

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Prolate Blogospheroid: The Solution

How to end the coaching carousel in the NFL? Stop hiring coaches! So implies Adam Schefter at NFL.com. Don’t the wags say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Hasn’t, for instance, Al Davis of the Raiders hired coach after coach over the years? How’s [...]

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Tell Me Wha’d I Say!

Your hand-waving, vague health warning of the day: mp3 players and hearing loss. Because the phrase “but some doctors worry” can’t follow “little research has been done” often enough, especially when (see final paragraph) there are sales to be made. Saving grace: the article doesn’t call for new regulations or a ban on portable-music players. [...]

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Fresh from the Stovepipe

Stephen F. Hayes has a new piece in the Weekly Standard about stuff people have told him:
THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military [...]