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Captain Ed is a father and grandfather living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, a native Californian who moved to the North Star State because of the weather. He lives with his wife Marcia, also known as the First Mate, their two dogs, and frequently watch their granddaughter Kayla, whom Captain Ed calls The Little Admiral.
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The Crows Nest
Rule 1: Drag The Corpse On Over First
If I've learned anything in four years of blogging, don't try to be out in front of the death rumors, especially with the villains of the world. Saddam died a hundred deaths before we caught him alive in his spider hole, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi almost as many before his demise last year. Osama may or may not be alive, but everyone's avoided speculating on his fate for a while now. Maybe Val at Babalu Blog will get luckier with his "Castro Is Dead" story. We all hope so. I'll wait for the announcement ....
Hobbs Choice
Volunteer Voters is holding its annual "Best of Nashville" on-line polls, and one of the categories is for the best political writer. Our friend Bill Hobbs, now posting at Newsbusters, and he'd like his on-line fans to cast their votes. Drop by and put one in for Bill if you get a chance!
Murtha Getting Backlogged On Apologies
Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring sees another case collapsing on the Haditha charges. He's called for Murtha to apologize earlier, and adds another reason to the tally.
No Such Thing As 'Moderate' Islam?
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan told a television interviewer that he finds the label "moderate Islam" offensive. Shrink Wrapped has a lot more on this, but at least in the same interview Erdogan acknowledged that "radical Islam" exists, and that it's been a catastrophe. Be sure to read the whole post.
MS-NBC Gets Punk'd
Power Line has a great post on a lack of journalistic effort on the part of MS-NBC. In covering the Michael Vick story, they reported on what they thought was Al Sharpton's website proclaiming Vick's innocence. I guess Alex Johnson and two other MS-NBC reporters couldn't bother to read the title bar of the site, which proudly proclaims it as a "parody site".
New Instapundit Podcast On Pharmaceuticals
I just caught this e-mail from Glenn Reynolds about his new podcast with Richard Epstein, the author of Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the topic is important enough to make sure I carve out time for it tomorrow. Get their first and tell me what I'm missing ....
Fed Trying A 'Stealth Easing'?
The Federal Reserve seems to have conducted a quiet campaign to steady markets that started spinning out of control, according to King Banaian at SCSU Scholars. He thinks that the Fed has conducted a "stealth easing". Be sure to read his explanation and follow his lnks.
A Shameless Bit Of Sel-Promotion
Gateway Pundit and Val at Babalu Blog note a crass PR move by Hugo Chavez. Venezuela has responded to Peru's eathquake disaster with food shipments -- and with Hugo's smiling picture on the cans. He also uses the tuna-can label to undermine President Garcia of Peru, who narrowly defeated Chavez' pal Ollanto Humalla, whom the labels extol for his "solidarity" with Chavez.
Tacky beyond belief.
Bush Going After Palestinian Terror Financing?
George Bush's new orders to USAID forces them to review the executive management of all NGOs to ensure that they have no terrorist connections. Carl in Jerusalem says at Israel Matzav that the order specifically intends to target Palestinian front groups for terrorists. Let's hope he's right.
Slow Start!
Yes, I'm off to a slow start today, thanks to some scripting issues, a bad back, and an alarm clock that needs replacing. Bear with me -- I'm ramping up, I promise...
And Now, In Little League Action Last Night ...
I once played in a Little League game where we lost, 30-1, obviously before mercy rules came into being. The only comfort during that shellacking was that 13-year-olds don't have to justify their salaries for being on the field. You have to wonder what the Baltimore Orioles have to feel without that caveat today, after losing 30-3 to the Texas Rangers. Sixteen of the runs came in the last two innings .... (via TMV)
Bush Speech On Iraq
I got a couple of e-mails wondering why I haven't linked to George Bush's speech today. I liked it; I just didn't have much to add. Rush Limbaugh covered it well on his site, and Power Line also links approvingly but has nothing much more to say. Michael Goldfarb notes that the Weekly Standard had made a similar argument regarding Vietnam a year ago.
Rove Fears Me -- No, Really!
Hot Air notes the latest fundraising letter from John Edwards. No longer content to indulge his paranoia when Ann Coulter mentions him, now he wants to indulge it when Karl Rove doesn't. Has any candidate seemed this desperate before now?
Racism Or Hard Truth?
Angela Winters looks at an editorial cartoon and the controvery it has caused in Jacksonville, Florida, especially in the black community. Truth or racism? When rap artists tell young listeners not to cooperate with the police, how much responsibility do they have for the victimization that follows? Read all of the essay at The Moderate Voice.
Support Citizen Journalism
Bill Ardolino at INDC Journal reminds us that there is a reporter shortage on the front lines. The best way to solve that problem? Donate to Public Multimedia, the citizen-journalist organization that supports Bill Roggio, Bill Ardolino, and others. (And a direct donation to Michael Yon would be much appreciated as well.)
Comments (13)
Posted by hunter![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 8:03 AM
After listening to Sullivan's childishness in his Hugh Hewitt interview, I would suggest that Sullivan is vastly over rated and that it is completely normal that his phony reasoning would be using deliberate satire to shore itself up.
Posted by rbj![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 8:17 AM
Sully will now claim that he was set up by Karl Rove.
Posted by syn![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 8:33 AM
Torture is degrating to society? Guess Sully might then want to do a reportage on the degrating impact of NYC S&M clubs; in that world torture is fun and good for sexual pleasure.
The thing that bugs me about those who profess their disgust towards torture and its degradation to our society is that these are the same people who will show up to a screening of a movie about beastiality to profess how enlightening an experience it is to watch some guy being screwed by a horse and how everyone else is sexually uptight for not watching.
Since words and their meaning can be so easily interchanged these days, maybe the military should just change the language of torture as a means to intelligence gathering to torture is simply a means to satisfying the sexual desires of human enlightenment.
Posted by RBMN![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 8:56 AM
It's the Mary Mapes/Al Gore/Rosie O'Donnell standard of Truth, which is: "If it reinforces my own feeling, and enough people believe it deeply, then in some spiritual sense it's absolutely true, and that's good enough for me, Mary Mapes/Al Gore/Rosie O'Donnell. Also, I must tell the world about it, and people that disagree with me must have been bought off. What other explanation is there for disagreement?"
Posted by Ripper![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 9:08 AM
What a shame that someone like Sullivan who was one of the most articulate advocates for the defense of Western Civilization against Islamofascist barbarism has become Arianna Huffingtonized.
Posted by PersonFromPorlock![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 9:19 AM
Sullivan turned against Bush over gay marriage and since doing so has given the world the definitive example of the Fearsome Snit.
Posted by krm![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 12:15 PM
Sullivan jumped the shark long ago. It turns out he is the worst sort of one issue guy (the gay agenda) and has decided to completely demonize anyone who is not with him on that one issue.
Posted by jr565![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 1:14 PM
I think Sullivan's jumping the shark ties into his getting a sleep apnea machine. I used to read him, and found him quite articulate about fighting a war against terror, and then he started mentioning how he just got a new machine to fight his sleep apnea.
Then within weeks he started sounding more and more fringy, and strident, and like a drama queen and doctrinaire. It has to be the sleep apnea machine.
Granted it's only an opinion, but I"m thinking that his sleep apnea machine addled his brains.
Posted by Maetenloch![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 2:08 PM
I don't think it was the CPAP machine for sleep apnea - he really started going wobbly when the boyfriend appeared. The thing about Sullivan is that while he's smart and a good writer, he's essentially a narcissist. Whatever he believes in or happens to him in his personal life suddenly becomes _The_Most_Important_Issue_Facing_America_ whether it's being an 'Eagle', apnea, gay marriage, etc. Even when he was an editor at the New Republic, people joked that he would declare the core of Conservatism to be whereever he was at the moment. That's still true today - even though he's essentialy gone over to the left on every major issue, he still considers himself the one true conservative.
Posted by Blaise![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 3:47 PM
I think that the most ironic part of this is the quote from George Orwell that Sullivan has, pretentiously, placed at the top of his blog. It says: "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
All I can say is this: Sullivan's strugglin'
'nuff said
Posted by jr565![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 3:51 PM
maetenloch wrote:
That's still true today - even though he's essentialy gone over to the left on every major issue, he still considers himself the one true conservative.
See, that's Andrews conservatism of doubt at work.
what that essentially means is that we his readers now have some doubts about his sanity.
Posted by Steven Den Beste![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 3, 2007 9:09 PM
Sullivan suffers from an overdose of earnestness. These Things Are Too Important To Make Jokes About.
Posted by patrick neid![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/nav-commenters.gif)
| May 4, 2007 4:32 PM
i read his blog religiously for several years. in fact i donated money when he first asked for help. as some commentators mentioned above, sullivan got himself all turned around when the bush admin said negative things about the gay marriage proposals. he wrote a rant about it and continued to do so for many weeks. it has clouded his vision ever since. it really is a shame.