"Lefty Girls Are Easy"

Classic stuff. Style over substance, baby!

UAE in The USA?

Saw this tag while heading home about two weeks ago - then I saw the same car in the High School parking lot (where I go to pickup women, or watch a game). Pretty cool, huh?

Let Freedom Ring!

First the taser incident, now this?

Finding Bin Laden

One man has a practical proposal. But is it politically profitable enough?

McCain Jumps the Shark

Seriously, folks. It's just getting ridiculous. See Bobby's post from earlier. This ship hasn't just sunk, it's settling into the ocean floor.

Interesting quote from the comments:

The Republican party used to be like Dad: sober, stodgy, good with money, and at least predictably hard to convince. Now Dad's an alcoholic bum, starting bar fights and living in the gutter yelling about the goddamn hippies. Go home Dad, clean yourself up.

Bring back the real Dad!

Holding a grudge, maybe?

If you ask me, someone is mad because the North beat the South. But that's just me.

Mash here.

What We Face

Mark Steyn can really write...

Bama Football Wrap - Week 3

Saturday night, sometime around 8:15, the Alabama Crimson Tide pulled off the kind of victory not seen in Tuscaloosa in many, many years. Of all the frustrations of the Shula era, perhaps the biggest was its recurring failure to mount fourth-quarter comebacks. Saturday's result wasn't so much about the game itself, about being undefeated or even about beating Arkansas. This game was about an experienced, confident head coach allowing a once-proud program to begin shaking off the demons of its recent past.

Despite a first-quarter Applewhite explosion on offense, the Razorbacks quickly adjusted on defense and limited the Tide to zero points for nearly 2 quarters of play. The youth and lack of depth on the D-line, oft-cited during spring practice, showed up after the half like a swamp donkey. It should be clear to anyone this side of Kirk Herbstreit that the Bama defense was physically overmatched and outplayed. Except, that is, when it counted with 3:30 left in the 4th quarter.

A 4 Million Dollar Decision

Saban's decision to bring in Leigh Tiffin to kick with 4:20 left in the final quarter, down by 7 points, told me about all I needed to know about his focus on building a program for the long term at Alabama. Here's a guy (Tiffin) who missed 4 FG last year in Fayetteville and single-handedly lost that game for the Tide. Coming into the game Saturday, he'd missed half of his attempts on the year. Perhaps his father's name was the only thing keeping him in the lineup over a more reliable Jamie Christensen.

With most of the 92,000 fans awestruck at the call, Tiffin promptly punches one through from 42 yards out.

Rather than issuing a challenge to the offense to convert on fourth down, CNS challenged Tiffin to make the kick, the defense to make the stop and the offense to execute a touchdown with no huddle and no timeouts. The result? All three units come away with more confidence. Sure, a failure to convert by any of these would have resulted in a loss accompanied by second-guessing. Yet it can't be denied that, through this sort of ballsy decision, CNS set a new tone at the Capstone and discovered far more about the mental toughness of this team than he otherwise would have.

The victory was not without a price. Our already shaky defense lost starters Darren Mustin and Keith Saunders to injury, and leading receiver DJ Hall suffered a deep thigh bruise late in the game. But whatever happens with the rest of the schedule, one thing is clear: this is a program finally making its way out of a decade-long struggle in the college football wilderness.


Update: A whole host of recruits just happened to be in town for Bama's SEC opener. Can't say this sort of win dampens our prospects on the recruiting front. At any rate, the days of AU and UcheaT capitalizing on Bama's struggles may be soon coming to a close.

Colbert Interviews Another Congressman

Heh. Heh heh

Hometown Pride!

Andrew Sullivan gives a shoutout to Rome, Ga. Derrick - do you know where this is? I can't figure it out...

Titanic Deck Chair Feature

This week's chair goes to the Big Blue of Michigan. "Hail to the victors" da, da, da, da

Michael Scheuer on the Bin Laden Vlog

Update: Further elaboration on the radio

Bama Football Wrap - Week 2

It goes without saying that I would have liked Auburn to pull through against South Florida, but I'm just not sure how many "gut wins" one team is allowed to have. All in all though, it was another good weekend of college football. Most importantly, the Alabama Crimson Tide rolled over Vandy, exposing depth issues for the Commodores on both sides of the ball despite a number of talented playmakers. The Tide's redshirt freshman running back Terry Grant looked alot like Warrick Dunn during his days at FSU, but time will tell.

Word on the blogosphere is that Nick Saban was in Smyrna on Friday night scouting a high school football game. This guy is just relentless when it comes to recruiting. It's early, of course, but right now Alabama is the top-ranked recruiter in the SEC, and we've got a decent shot at five-star Julio Jones. Bama stands to improve tremendously on the recruiting front over last year and, with a coaching staff that can actually make use of the talent, things could get mighty interesting down at the capstone in a few years.

But anyway, on to Arkansas - McFadden's one man band. I'm not convinced we've seen all of Major Applewhite's playbook, but if John Parker Wilson doesn't shape up by Saturday, it won't make a whole helluva lot of difference. It's white-knuckle time folks. The ride's about to get a little bumpy.

Debate #23811 Wrap

For the 5 people who watched it, here's a good point from that cut-n-runner Andrew Sullivan on the Huckabee-Paul exchange.

Update: a more colorful analysis. Money quote:

Huckabee's position, shared by the Red State Fascists in the audience and the GOP leadership, is essentially that it is the duty of Americans to kill and die for as long as their rulers decree -- even after the foolishness, corruption, and dishonesty of the policy is obvious.

Tinfoil Hat Feature of the Week

My illustrious colleague here at the office is convinced - convinced! - that there exists a massive conspiracy at the ESPN network to elevate Alabama football and ignore Auburn's recent accomplishments. The evidence? Apparently it's here. Alabama at #16 after one cakewalk week? Sure, it's excessive. But isn't this the same network that repeatedly drug Nick Sabear over the coals when he left Miami? I'm not sure, but I've got a full roll of aluminum foil and time on my hands...

An Indecent Comment

A general bitch-slapping is administered by George Will.