David Berstein at the Volokh Conspiracy asks if John Kerry and Andrew Jackson were separated at birth. Actually, baseball fans know that it’s Peter Gammons who looks just like Andrew Jackson (Scroll down). Peter is often presented with $20 bills to autograph.
It’s interesting that people think both look like Jackson. Gammons and Kerry played hockey against each other in prep school, and Peter told me once that Kerry was the dirtiest hockey player he ever saw. Maybe ESPN can run a poll on who looks more like Old Hickory!
BASEBALL/BLOG/POLITICS/LAW: Musings on Pinto
Congratulations are in order for David Pinto, who’s moving on to a job with Baseball Info Solutions, the publishers of the new Bill James Handbook. David’s been a great friend to this site, and I wish him well; he’ll apparently…
Here’s my claim to originality: I’ve made the rhetorical leap necessary to connect Howard Dean to Pedro Martinez. It’s not a simple feat, but you can check it out at:
http://hudson.typepad.com/line/2004/01/for_the_sake_of.html
Or click my name.
Candidates And Deal-Breakers
Re Mark’s comment on the “Bowling…” post, yeah, the problem I described there isn’t unique to John Edwards either. So…
dirty hockey player, huh? That trait may very well come in handy when dealing with Bush/Rove and Co.
Dean and Edwards are MORE ELECTABLE
Happy birthday to former President Abraham Lincoln; if that bastard Booth hadn’t shot him, Lincoln would be 195 years old today, and I’m sure that as elder, elder statesman of…
well…It can be said, that sometimes there is a struggle between two persons similar to each other…There’s nothing strange..
The George Bush Sports Machine
Guestblogging for Tom Tomorrow over at This Modern World, Bob Harris goes overboard with his analysis of a photo of
POLITICS/OTHER SPORTS: Band of Ruggers
Eric McErlain takes apart one of the stupidest political arguments I have ever seen, this Bob Harris post at Tom Tomorrow’s place showing a still photo of George W. Bush playing rugby at Yale and trying to make out Bush…