DAVID HORSEY, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER I have a perverse habit: I listen to AM radio whenever I’m alone in the rental car while visiting family in Texas or the Midwest. I start at the low end of the AM radio spectrum, 535 kiloHertz, and methodically scan my way to the opposite end, 1705 kHz, usually in 10 kHz increments. Over thousands of miles I’ve concluded that AM radio in the heartland consists of five major categories: Right-wing talk radio Christian radio Country-western music Ranchero music Sports If I can’t get good reception on a baseball game, I search for right-wing talk…
Let’s say the final score in Tuesday’s 2014 baseball All-Star Game is National League 97, American League 3. It’s a tie, right? ADDED UPDATE: The All-Star Game ended in a tie, with a score of National League 3, American League 5. CONGRESSMAN BLACKBURN Despite the fact that 97 percent of climate scientists believe urgent action is needed to address the potentially catastrophic environmental changes caused by the burning of fossil fuels, “The science is inconclusive,” says Marsha Blackburn, the Congressman* from Tennessee’s 7th District. Similarly, Congressman Blackburn believes that the theory of evolution and the hypothesis of creationism deserve equal…
ANDERSONVILLE GUARDS ENFORCING THE DEAD LINE Now that I’m not on deadline, this seems a good time to discuss dead lines. It’s also timely given the discussion of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American prisoner of war exchanged for five Taliban prisoners. Like deadbeat, deadline is a term that originated during the American Civil War. It is often associated with the Andersonville Prison in Georgia, an abominably foul and horrific stockade where some 13,000 Union war prisoners died. Most prisoners there succumbed to disease, thirst and starvation, but many of them were shot for going past the so-called dead line. The dead…
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