The Vig

I asked John G. last night whether he believed Frazer McLaren would still be a Winter Hawk on Christmas Day.  He surmised, correctly imho, that McLaren would probably welcome such a move, especially if it meant going to a contender.  I think it would also be a boost for his career down the line to [...]

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I missed the memo that Matt Drudge had ditched his radio gig.  I used to enjoy listening to his show.  He very sloppily walked the line between old man shaking his fist at the sea and new media sage.  He simultaneously champions the new media and begs the powers-that-be to leave the Internet alone while [...]

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Sitting in a quiet corner before the Winter Hawks game last night, I watched two of the Rose Quarter’s finest relieve a grade schooler of his toy Star Wars gun.  It was costume night at the Coliseum and the kid was dressed as a Storm Trooper.
His dad protested mightily.  Mascot Night was just a week [...]

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I gotta believe the idea of staging fake news conferences has been a part of the post-Katrina FEMA playbook for a while now.  It’s a very pre-2006 election idea hatched, no doubt, by some true believers.  Chertoff had to know.  And if he didn’t, he should have.
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Plans were in the works for Newman and Redford to team up on a film version of Bill Bryson’s A Walk In The Woods. It looks like that won’t be happening now.  Says Redford:
“I got the rights to the movie four years ago, and we couldn’t decide if we were too old to do [...]

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