…to the host of Phillies fans who hang out here in the comments. 13-4 down the stretch by the Phillies is pretty remarkable, and that finish evens the historical score on one of the most astounding collapses in major league history (where have you gone, Ritchie Allen?). Sorry, Mets fans. But the Phils were the better team, and they deserved the division title. As for the Rockies, they live to

John Gibson and Mark Levin weigh in on Media Matters, George Soros, John Kerry, Keith Olbermann, and the art of the soundbite edit — particularly with respect to the latest leftwing attempts to smear Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly.

Ace has the details. I’m beginning to think the time has come to see more of this. So long as MSM “reporters” are acting like George Soros-funded attack ads in pancake makeup and mousse, there’s no reason for Republicans Reps to provide them with on-air access. If the media is no longer interested in even pretending toward objectivity and fairness, why should Congressional representatives continue to lend legitimacy to this

Frankly, I haven’t commented on the charges of Bill O’Reilly’s “racism” because I’m quite certain that no one — not even those who pretend to be most outraged at O’Reilly, or those most delighted to seize upon this “story” (and here I include the Washington Post, CNN’s Rick Sanchez, and Media Matters’ Oliver Willis, an ever-expanding pit of hatred, racial animus, and double sausage calzones) — believes that what O’Reilly

Blog? What blog? Seriously. Who are you people, and what are you doing on my couch, eating my bagel chips?

Just got the email. My short stint with AFF’s Brainwash is over. I can’t prove it to be the case, but I suspect my history of controversy and potty mouthedness had something to do with it. Not that I blame them. After all, not everybody has to be happy having their serious online political mag tied to a dude who once interviewed Jeff Gannon’s junk. Thankfully, you all still love

From The WSJ, “Verizon Wireless Bars Abortion-Rights Group’s Texting”: Verizon Wireless is refusing to carry text messages from a prominent abortion-rights group, citing its internal restrictions on content that is “highly controversial,” the carrier said. Naral Pro-Choice America requested that Verizon Wireless and other carriers distribute its text messages that users sign up for by sending a message to a five- or six-digit number called a “short code.” The program

And though it’s quite possible that an actual open thread could look exactly like this one — down to the last bit of punctuation, even — that wouldn’t change this post’s ontology one bit. All of which puts me in mind of Jeremy Irons and David Cronenberg. And intentionalism. Discuss. — Or if the topic doesn’t interest you, discuss something else. I’m easy that way, and besides, I have a

Knock knock. Who’s there? Juan Williams. Heh. Come on in, Mr Rove. You old kidder, you!*

Evidently, excluding the unethical from a conference on ethics would be a form of intolerance — a hate crime committed by the kinds of regressive, patriarchal Enlightenment thinkers who arrogantly presume to define what constitutes “ethics” in the first place. After all, one man’s convicted and disbarred terror enabler is another man’s “prominent” expert “in the field of ethics.” Up is down. Black is white. Quizno’s ain’t toasting jack. Don’t