Why Gene Weingarten is an A–hat

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Fairlington Blade

Yellojkt got something of a shout out in Gene Weingarten’s column this week in which he discusses his interactions with the commenterati. Here’s the relevant paragraph:

“The comparatively erudite Yellojkt, a frequent disparager of mine, periodically writes lengthy, joyful disquisitions on my abject failings as a professional, such as the blog item I am looking at from 2008, which goes on for pages and includes multiple links and is titled “Why Gene Weingarten Is an A–hat.” (Abstract: Because I suck.)”

The full column can be found here.

BB

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Why I Love Mark,

Posted on July 14, 2012 by lmsinca

even though he’s clearly too old for me, he and I are both happily married to other people and he lives in Frickin’ Texas.  Here’s part of a comment he made at the PL that didn’t get enough coverage.  We can still be friends though.

I sometimes come here just to read Shrink’s links, or john’s, or jncp’s, or suek’s. When I see a substantive discussion, if I have time I might join in. But this place bogs down if it celebrates the momentary gain from political low blows which is always followed by a further obfuscation of the real discussions that could be had here, if not by the nominees. 
 
Which is why I want Gary Johnson to do better in the polls. We need another voice in the TV debates or they will sound like…”Obamacare”…”Romneycare”…”Bain”…”tax and spend”…”tax cuts for the rich”…and no one will even mention that CONGRESS HAS NOT DONE ITS JOB< EITHER D, R, OR MIXED, IN YEARS and the American people will go on being told by the challenger that the POTUS can do everything while the incumbent is bound by the fact that the POTUS can do little [after having campaigned saying the POTUS can do it all].  
 
But here, we could agree that POTUS cannot do what any nominee promises, and then talk about what should be done by Congress and by POTUS. No matter what we say here about the horse race of politics it will happen. It would be more difficult but more rewarding to focus on issues, here.

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Saturday Morning Trivia (for LMS)

Posted on September 24, 2011 by ScottC

Since the the Most Valuable Player award was introduced into Major League Baseball in 1931, 12 players have won the award in consecutive years.  The last three players to do it were Albert Pujols (2008/09), Barry Bonds twice (1992/93 and 2001-2004), and Frank Thomas (1993/94).  Amazingly, however, the first 9 players to do it each played a different position, thus making back-to-back winners a perfect starting lineup.  Can you name them?

(Note:  one of the outfielders actually played all three outfield positions at various points in his MVP years, but we will make him our left fielder, since we’ve already got back-to-back winners at center field and right field.)

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Morning Trivia

Posted on September 23, 2011 by ScottC

No google…you are on your honor.

There have been four universities that have produced both a US president and a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Name the schools, the presidents, and the quarterbacks. (One school actually produced two Super Bowl winning qb’s.)

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