Multimedia!

I came across this cartoon by Jim Morin at the Miami Herald, which is, I guess, a little funny. I was struck by the cartoon depicting Barack Obama throwing a frozen rope of an oil ball.

Then I remembered Barack Obama throws like a girl. The upshot, of course, is that it allows me to revisit Obama's five-balk limp-wristed moonball that wafted three feet inside on MLB Opening Day:

Once More, for the Remedial Class

Today's Object of Ridicule and Scorn is Leonard Pitts of the Chicago Tribune, who feels compelled to mistakenly point out Bobby Jindal's hypocrisy over the Oil Spill.

Regular readers (of which there is precisely one) will recall I already took a look at the very issue of defending laissez-faire capitalism in the context of the Gulf Oil Spill earlier this week, (Thursday’s Object of Ridicule and Scorn was E.J. Dionne Jr. of the Washington Post) but I just couldn’t resist the opportunity to savage my hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, which is a stiff breeze away from tumbling into complete insolvency.

Leonard Pitts presents an even less compelling argument than Dionne did. No, the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico does not underscore the need for increased federal power and regulation. Precisely the opposite, it shows how ineffectual and inefficient power can be when it is congealed within the grips of a massive bureaucracy.

FREE-MARKET RELIGION LOST IN OIL SPILL by Leonard Pitts 

"There has never been a challenge that the American people, with as little interference as possible by the federal government, cannot handle." — Bobby Jindal, March 24, 2009

That was then. 

Wow. Three words that are both a sentence and a paragraph. The simplicity of the sentence and the short paragraph break really draw me in to the tension of the writing and underscore the starkness of the comparison.

This is

 …Spinal Tap? …Sparta? …how we do it?

now: 

Boo. You had at least three better options.

Here Come the Hawks

I've resisted the urge to post anything on the Blackhawks this postseason. With Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals tonight, I can't really temper my excitement anymore. Let's go Hawks!

UPDATE: Hawks win!