Dateline Saudi Arabia: Holding its first ever national elections—municipal council seats—the Saudis banned all women from voting or running for office. Their rational: not enough voting booths. Seems the Saudis have been studying how to run elections in Ohio.
Meantime, Condi Rice is in Europe, preaching high ideals about bringing democracy to women in the Middle-East. Evidently Saudi Arabia has been relocated. Evidently, Rice also told the French people that Iran is a "totalitarian state."
They look something alike, but totalitarian is usually reserved for such places as Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Calling a country "totalitarian" in public speech usually signifies extremely hostile intentions. At least this is how the French are interpreting Rice's remarks.
Baseball: The Chicago Cubs seem bent on a money saving scheme that defies baseball logic. Now they've traded off a young relief pitcher who has the potential to be one of the best in the game. Kyle Farnsworth had an up and down season last year, blowing a couple of key games, but he has the makings to become one of the best relievers in baseball. So who did the Cubs get for him? Roberto Novoa and two minor leaguers. This sounds like more Sammy Sosa type deals. Lets dump players no matter what.
First the Cubs let Alou and Clement go without making any effort to resign them, then they pay Baltimore to take Sammy, now The Farns has gone. A little more than a decade ago a young pitcher named Greg Maddox, who had just won his first Cy Young, refused to re-sign with the Cubs because, as he said, the organization just doesn't care whether it wins or loses. Could it be that the Trib organization has told Cub management, "You've had your fun the past two years, now we're going back to low payrolls and lovable lose-ingness." Let's face it, the Cubs will always make money, even if they play like the Mets. (Wait a minute, the Mets have managed to win a couple of World Series since '45!)
Chicago Cubs fans may be more ill mannered than St. Louis fans, but they still deserve to have the Cubs get to the World Series at least once every fifty or sixty years. Come on guys, you define overdue. Don't kill all our dreams, corporate America.
Meantime, Condi Rice is in Europe, preaching high ideals about bringing democracy to women in the Middle-East. Evidently Saudi Arabia has been relocated. Evidently, Rice also told the French people that Iran is a "totalitarian state."
to·tal·i·tar·i·an adj. 1. Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed: “A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).
au·thor·i·tar·i·an adj. 1. Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom: an authoritarian regime. 2. Of, relating to, or expecting unquestioning obedience.
They look something alike, but totalitarian is usually reserved for such places as Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Calling a country "totalitarian" in public speech usually signifies extremely hostile intentions. At least this is how the French are interpreting Rice's remarks.
Baseball: The Chicago Cubs seem bent on a money saving scheme that defies baseball logic. Now they've traded off a young relief pitcher who has the potential to be one of the best in the game. Kyle Farnsworth had an up and down season last year, blowing a couple of key games, but he has the makings to become one of the best relievers in baseball. So who did the Cubs get for him? Roberto Novoa and two minor leaguers. This sounds like more Sammy Sosa type deals. Lets dump players no matter what.
First the Cubs let Alou and Clement go without making any effort to resign them, then they pay Baltimore to take Sammy, now The Farns has gone. A little more than a decade ago a young pitcher named Greg Maddox, who had just won his first Cy Young, refused to re-sign with the Cubs because, as he said, the organization just doesn't care whether it wins or loses. Could it be that the Trib organization has told Cub management, "You've had your fun the past two years, now we're going back to low payrolls and lovable lose-ingness." Let's face it, the Cubs will always make money, even if they play like the Mets. (Wait a minute, the Mets have managed to win a couple of World Series since '45!)
Chicago Cubs fans may be more ill mannered than St. Louis fans, but they still deserve to have the Cubs get to the World Series at least once every fifty or sixty years. Come on guys, you define overdue. Don't kill all our dreams, corporate America.
posted by Jim | 7:20 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home