Northern Exposure

The Mexican War Streets area of Pittsburgh’s North Side is getting some broader exposure, thanks to a piece appearing today on The New Yorker’s web site. A Safe Street in Pittsburgh, by George Packer tells the story of War Streets resident Ralph Henry Reese, and how he’s one of the people who are helping [...]

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All The Way, Again

It was a year ago today that OMT reviewed Jingle All the Way, the then-new Christmas album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. We mention this today for a couple of reasons.
First, according to the statistics supplied to us by our blog hosts, our review of Jingle All the Way has been the most [...]

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A Tale of Two Cities

As we predicted the other day, the rehabilitation of Mike Huckabee for having commuted the sentence of Maurice Clemmons, who on Sunday gunned down four Seattle police officers, has begun in earnest.
As an example, today’s Los Angeles Times has written this editorial in which they tell us what a “shame” it would be [...]

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The Bush/Cheney Master Plan Lunges Forward

Vietnam was known as “Johnson’s war” until Richard Nixon got his hands on it; now it’s remembered as “Nixon’s war”.
George Bush had two wars; Iraq, which will always be his, because as soon as Barack Obama took control of things, he started winding it down. And Afghanistan.
Afghanistan was Bush’s “other war” until yesterday, when [...]

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A Willie Horton for the Republicans

The Seattle police finally caught up with Maurice Clemmons last night after a two-day manhunt, fatally shooting the man who on Sunday shot and killed four Lakewood police officers at a coffee shop the day after he told one of his friends to “watch the news” because he was planning to “kill some cops”. [...]

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Errata

In yesterday’s post, we said that the supertanker that the Somali pirates (not to be confused with the Ethiopian Orioles) hijacked was headed for “China’s burgeoning economy”.
This evening, on the PBS Snoozehour, Judy Woodruff pointed out to us that the supertanker was in fact on it’s way to fill the thirsty tanks of America’s SUVs.
Here [...]

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Coverage You Can Count On

First, it was Sarah Palin, promoting her new book and having a very public battle with her not-quite-son-in-law, Levi Johnston, who himself was the center of a story all his own, about his posing nude in Playgirl and trying to jump-start a career as somebody famous who doesn’t quite do anything remarkable, which is something [...]

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Happy Bird-Fest

It’s Thanksgiving, and before we close up the OMT offices for the day, we thought it would be a nice idea to bring you coverage of President Obama’s traditional turkey pardon, which he performed yesterday, along with Sasha and Malia. So here’s eight minutes of raw video (preceded by a 15-second ad) provided by [...]

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Just Jerking Around

“Here is my attitude: I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. We should be focused on creating jobs, improving our schools, health care, dealing with the war in Iraq, and anybody, any public official, that is worrying about sagging pants probably needs to spend some time [...]

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Send in the Clowns

Perhaps it’s some kind of indication of how little Americans respect their political institutions. Or it could be that most Americans these days have little understanding of the role of government in the affairs of this nation. Maybe it’s just that the road to America’s decline has taken a sharp, downward turn just [...]

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