Oct
18
2009

URLs du Jour

2009-10-18

  • I'm a Jeopardy! fan. (And true Jeopardy! fans always include the exclamation point at the end of the title.) This year, they're doing celebrity shows the third Thursday of every month. Last Thursday featured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael McKean, and CNN's Soledad O’Brien.

    O’Brien did a little better than CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who was soundly beaten/self-destructed last month against Dana Delany and Awesome Andy Richter. Lesson learned: news readers don't necessarily have to understand the stuff they're reading off the teleprompter.

    Kareem— look, I don't expect a lot from sports legends on Jeopardy!, having learned from Curt Schilling's experience. But Kareem did surprisingly well—he's a smart guy—but he managed to hurt himself badly with a bad Daily Double wager. And (worse) he botched a question… well, let Betsy Newmark tell you about it.

    So David St. Hubbins himself, Michael McKean, walked away the winner. ObQuote:

    It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever.
    One of the many Pun Salad Official Mottos.

  • P. J. content at the Weekly Standard. His topic is the Nobel Peace Prize, and—gosh—he makes it seem that the country of my ancestors is doing a less-than-stellar job in picking the awardees.
    …, where in the list of Nobel Peace Prize winners are the men and women of Lincoln's mettle, who brought just and lasting peace to whole continents? Where is Winston Churchill? Franklin Roosevelt? Harry Truman? Margaret Thatcher? Ronald Reagan? Instead what we get is Mikhail Gorbachev (1990) and Barack Obama.
    He doesn't mention Arafat, which makes me realize that P. J. O'Rourke knows when he doesn't need to overmake his case.

  • It's so hard to love her well:

    Via the University Diarist who has given me a wee bit of encourangement to this Jimmy Webb fan.


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