| Row over Irish plan to invite the Queen
The Queen is set to become the first British monarch for almost a century to visit the Republic of Ireland. Royal Family: News, videos and photos An invitation from Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, looks certain to be issued later this year or early next year. .
Whicker responds to fans about the Mitchell Report, Angels, other ...
Even Wikipedia recognizes the strange circumstances of the Paxton Riddle: "...A day after pitching a 7 inning no-hitter, he (Crawford) allegedly rolled off a hotel bed in Ottawa and landed on a glass that he had left on the floor. The injury required eight stitches."
That effectively ended his career. ... What was in that glass! What was in that bed! How high was that hotel bed to send that large bodied young man toppling over the cliff onto that inoffensive glass?
Now Mitchell should straighten that BoSox cap, trot out his CSI kit and get to the bottom of this enduring mystery. Inquiring minds want to know, Senator. I believe Paxton Crawford joins the company of Bugs Raymond, Bobo Newsom and other night crawlers that should have a special wing in Cooperstown.
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Then again, maybe we've reached the point in our politics of true gender blindness, where the bellicosity of a male candidate toward a female opponent is viewed no differently than that between two male, or female, candidates.A welcome development, indeed, but I have my doubts we're anywhere close. Let's see what happens the next time a male Republican candidate goes after a female Democrat the same way Mihos went after Healey. If spastic accusations of sexism aren't immediately sounded, and the substance of what was actually said is mulled over instead, gender may finally cease to matter in politics.In fairness to Mihos, his obsessive focus on the Big Dig is completely legitimate. What has occurred with this project is so patently outrageous, in lives lost and billions squandered, that its perversity -- even by the standards of Bay State politics -- would be much worse if we did not have at least one politician yelling from the television, like the anchorman played by Peter Finch in "Network," "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"But it is also outrageous -- unbecoming even -- for Mihos to accuse Healey and Romney of having blood on their hands for the deaths in those tunnels.
Chris Matthews
See Bonus Coverage at foot: "Clinton campaign spent 24 hours slicing and dicing each other." Could the great irony be that the strong woman won because . . . people felt sorry for her? That's not just some right-wing media critic talking. It's a view emerging from left-wing circles. Apparently the libs are angry that the MSM was too biased towards Obama, so much so that it drove people to Hillary out of spite or sympathy. Take the comments of Air America host Rachel Maddow during last night's MSNBC election coverage, in a remarkable exchange with Pat Buchanan and Chris Matthews. Who has been singled out for blame by the lefty blogosphere? None other than Matthews himself, who regularly waxed euphoric about Obama, going so far as to claim a week ago that an Obama victory in Iowa would be the greatest story of the century.
Councilman MikeK Recalls Knievel Action Figure
Top: Young MikeK playing with Evel Knievel action figure; bottom: MikeK receives inspiration from his childhood friends before leaving for a Coeur d'Alene City Council meeting. I had a classic Evel Knievel motorcycle riding action figure when I was a kid. The stunts my brothers and I would stage for that motorcycle toy were legendary (riding out a second story window, chasing the dog around the house without getting chewed to ribbons, you name it). RIP Evel. I wonder what happened to Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man who played the role of Evel's arch-nemesis in the boyhood action figure wars?/Councilman MikeK. Question: What was your favorite action figure/doll when you were little? .
Advertising giant Grey Global re-launches in Cairo by op...
Born in Aswan, Abdel Dhaher has both Nubian and Saeedi roots. Although he left Aswan as a child and came to settle in Cairo, Abdel Dhaher never really left Egypt's most magical city. “My painting style is social realism. I paint the reality of life in the South. I've loved to paint the daily life or the environment in the South ever since I was a student of Fine Arts," he says. Armed with a sketch pad at all times, Abdel Dhaher quickly draws everything he sees, a zir (water jar), a cousin feeding the chickens, another cousin feeding the ducks, his nephews' double wedding, or the belly dancer and zammar (flute player) at a wedding. Few people have heard of a Saeedi painter. It's not that Upper Egyptians aren't blessed with artistic talent. They are. It is just that those painters who originally come from Upper Egypt more often than not tend to stray away from their roots and try to become urbanized.
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