Horse Racing’s Future?

Mark Beech at the end of a longish bit at si.com notes the same thing I did within hours of the death of Eight Belles:

And so racing will probably only have three more weeks to admire its newest superstar.

Billy;

While I do understand your disconnect here, give Reynolds a little credit… he’s clearly pointing at the hypocrisy of the whole thing.  That’s a valid angle as far as I’m concerned.  It’s certainly a comparison we’ve used often enough

Hope it was a good one.

Michael van der Galien has some New Digs, over at PoliGazette.com I made note of it when he first went online, but the note never made it to my action list. (Announcement, RSS feeder, etc)

Looking impressive, so far. Then

Another honorable mention at the Outside the Beltway caption contest

I still like the Vulcan line better… after cats have pointed ears, and one of these cats is slightly green.

Oh, well.

Finally, the 6th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards are live. Find out which blogs were voted as the best — and worst — by their fellow bloggers. You can see won these once per year awards, which are

….in OTB’s Caption Contest

I note Patterico and company taking major bits of backside off Chuckie, again. That’s OK. The guy can afford it.. as he’s amply demonstrated several times, he’s ALL ass. The documentation of that is here on BitsBlog, and in

If there is a more annoying person in the world of punditry than Arianna Huffington, I certainly don’t know of it.

The way that Mike Huckabee has handled the furor caused by the Huffington Post’s coverage of his role

Captain Ed, who clearly is getting bored, or something. Early winter doldrums?

 How does one address a letter to the dictator-for-life of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-Il? Would it be a “Dear Jong” letter?

(Slap!)

Fifty-one years ago, November 27 was also a Tuesday. I’ve been told that it was a gray and rainy afternoon in Little Rock, Arkansas, but I don’t recall on my own observations, because I was a bit busy being born.

The “Rightosphere Temperature Check For November: Special GOP Primary Edition” is now up at RWN.

John Hawkins says in mail this morning:

 In this poll, right-of-center bloggers ranked the top 5 GOP contenders on everything from electability to fiscal

Have I mentioned lately, that I miss reading Cathy’s World?

I don’t think I have.

Tonight, I stumbled across  an archive I made of her site a few months ago, thinking they might take it down, and started reading. When

Feedback from an apparently young reader…

Why not link The DrudgeReport?

Tell you what… get him to link BitsBlog, and I’ll consider it. Let me know how you make out.

Times are tough for the Republican Party and its candidates. Earlier this month, according to Gallup, more people strongly disapproved of George W. Bush than any previous president since the advent?of polling—and, really, how could things be any different? Bush