In this interview at the sports media journal, Neil Best gives us a mention.
SMJ: What do you read on a daily basis? Please include print and online material.
N.B.: Sandomir, Mushnick, Raissman, Futterman, Greenstein, Deitsch, Deadspin, The Big Lead, Awful Announcing, about 50 e-mails from p.r. people and others, reader comments on my e-mail, [...]

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Listen to the right wing radio hosts, they sure have their talking points and marching orders. Funny thing is I heard this one weeks ago on AM radio about the ramifications of our withdrawal from Vietnam, as if ten years and 58,000 soldiers were not enough of a sacrifice.
Of course many of these hosts [...]

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Who said that in 2004? If you answered President Bush you win the prize.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, April is turning into the deadliest month in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, and some people are comparing Iraq to Vietnam and talking about a quagmire. Polls show that support for [...]

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Does the President realize what he says on a daily basis?
Five years ago he said this:
Q But don’t you believe that the threat that bin Laden posed won’t truly be eliminated until he is found either dead or alive?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, as I say, we haven’t heard much [...]

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In the previous four years the administration would have none of the comparisons between the Vietnam war and the Iraq war.
JEFFREY BROWN: Asked a similar question, Secretary of State Rice told reporters that, quote, “Historical parallels of that kind are, I think, not very helpful, and I don’t think they happen to be [...]

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The United States has the best cancer survivor rates in the world.
Cancer survival rates in Britain are among the lowest in Europe, according to the most comprehensive analysis of the issue yet produced.

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The BBC have some interesting writers.
The other 10 were treated in hospital but later released. Police said there were “no findings to suggest anyone famous was involved”.
1. Why do they need “findings” to determine if anyone famous was hurt?
2. Thank God none of the 10 hurt were famous.

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Does this genius realize what she said? By the way just to inject some balance here….If our economy does bad then China suffers. China depends on U.S. consumers buying their goods. If China raises prices on their goods then they take a bullet as well.

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