Below The Beltway

Sports Illustrated’s The 10 Spot has this observation on the 2006 Boston Massacre:
The Yankees completed a five-game sweep of the Red Sox on Monday with a 2-1 victory. Still, it seemed like overkill when New York sent up Bucky Dent as a pinch hitter.
Heh.

The University of Texas is America’s top party school:

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? The Texas Longhorns earned another national title Monday, not for football but as the country’s best party school.
The University of Texas at Austin beat Penn State University, West Virginia University and last year’s winner, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the Princeton Review survey [...]

The latest edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival is up at A Prince William Citizen. Go check it out.

At some point today, Iran is supposed to give its official response to the United Nations deadline that it stop nuclear weapons research. Based on the news that has already come out, its pretty clear that the official response will be an emphatic no. Many, though, have thought that Iran would use today to launch [...]

Kids are still embarressing their parents, only now they’re doing it on their blogs:
Like many 21-year-olds, Jared Watts gripes in his blog. He rails against his boss, his job and the misery of dealing with customers at the Cingular Wireless store where he works.
“Enter Middle Aged Wench of Doom,” Watts wrote, recounting a tense dialogue [...]

Well, they’re at it again, the Yankees and Red Sox are sapping everyone else’s productivity again this afternoon.
Update @ 2:00pm: 0-0 in the bottom of the third inniing
Update @ 3:00pm: 1-0 New York in the bottom of the 6th !
Update @ 4:00pm: 2-1 Yankees heading in to the top of the 9th !
Update @ 4:15pm: [...]

In addition to being focused on the destruction of Western Civilization, Osama bin Laden may also be obsessed with Whitney Houston:
August 21, 2006 — Osama bin Laden has more on his mind than just the destruction of the United States - the world’s most wanted terrorist is obsessed with Whitney Houston, so much so that [...]

The photographer who shot the famous photo of Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima has died:
SAN FRANCISCO — Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.
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His photo, taken for The Associated [...]

In the first three games of their five game series with the Yankees, it barely seemed like the Red Sox were bothering to show up given the fact that they were out-scored 39-20 in three games. Last night, it looked as though they would actually win one. They were leading 8-5 going into the 9th [...]

Good morning and welcome to the August 21st edition of the RINO Sightings Carnival. We’ve got a great collection of posts this week, so let’s get right to it.
First off, Pigilito takes on the unenviable task of coming to the defense of Tour de France winner Floyd Landis, who is currently caught up in a [...]