Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Meggie Zahneis: Chipper Jones reflects on career, offers advice to kids | MLB.com - Chipper Jones says his baseball idols growing up were Cal Ripken Jr. and Mickey Mantle. "I came up as a shortstop, so I wanted to emulate who I thought was the best shortstop in the game. And Cal Ripken was it. My dad always brought me up switch-hitting in the shadow of Mickey Mantle, so those are the two guys that I looked up to," Jones said. But now, Jones is the one baseball stars of tomorrow -- and today -- look up to.
The Party Animals at the Secret Circus - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - THE Secret Circus, as the traveling Secret Service extravaganza is known, had come to town. And the pack of macho Secret Service agents were hitting the clubs, drinking and hanging out with comely young women in alluring outfits. That was half a century ago in Fort Worth at the Press Club and a joint called the Cellar, where the waitresses wore only underwear. The carousing started after midnight on Nov. 22, 1963, the day the agents were charged with keeping President Kennedy and Jackie safe in Dallas. Boys will be boys. And no one doubts that being an agent is a tough job.
The Politics of Religion - NYTimes.com - Editorial - Thirteen Roman Catholic dioceses and some Catholic-related groups scattered lawsuits across a dozen federal courts last week claiming that President Obama was violating their religious freedom by including contraceptives in basic health care coverage for female employees. It was a dramatic stunt, full of indignation but built on air. - This is a clear partisan play. The real threat to religious liberty comes from the effort to impose one church’s doctrine on everyone.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Romney’s Safest VP Pick, Portman, Plus 9 Safeties, from Ryan to Rubio - The Daily Beast - Solid character, plenty of experience, zero risk—that’s why Mitt Romney will choose Rob Portman as his running mate. But nine more, from Chris Christie to Jeb Bush, will at least get an interview, says Mark McKinnon.
Football playoff adds ‘greater swirl' to SEC meetings | ajc.com - Tim Tucker -“I’m not sure we’ve had a Destin meeting in a long time with as much of a substantive agenda as I expect [this time],” Adams said last week. “… The normal swirl is a little greater swirl this year because of the issues surrounding football.” The meetings, which begin Tuesday and run through Friday, will draw presidents, athletic directors, coaches and other administrators from the SEC schools. The dominant topic will be college football’s apparent movement toward a four-team playoff that would crown the national champion beginning in the 2014 season.
'You should be on a stripper pole in Phoenix, you're fat and your father sucks': Horrific abuse Meghan McCain suffers at hands of Twitter bullies | Mail Online - Meghan McCain has been attacked by Twitter bullies, labelling her fat, 'a whore' and suggesting she kill herself, in a vicious stream of abuse. The daughter of Republican Senator John McCain, who refers to herself as 'socially liberal', sparked the hateful backlash after she criticised the Republican party on MSNBC's Politics Nation show on Thursday. Minutes after the program, extreme-right members of the party took to the 27-year-old's Twitter page to unleash a barrage of nasty tweets, calling her 'a whore', 'a pole dancer' and 'a waste of good boobs'.
Meghan McCain: Cut It Out, Internet Bullies! - The Daily Beast - After Meghan McCain spoke out on TV about the GOP’s extremists, Twitter and the blogosphere blew up with personal attacks. What will it take to stop name-calling and focus on the issues?
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