Check out the trailer for the new Batman movie. I hope it is going to be better than the last couple Batman movies.

William Slaten, discussing Obama’s speech, writes:

Two things about the speech trouble me. They bothered me yesterday, and in a way they’ve been nagging at me for months. Obama just happens to bring them to the fore by representing them in person as well as in words. One is the Democratic Party’s exploitation of hostility to free trade. Obama, like other speakers at this convention, complains about “companies shipping jobs overseas” and workers “losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that’s moving to Mexico.” At the same time, Obama holds himself out as a symbol of a diverse, welcoming America. How can Democrats be the party of diversity at home but xenophobia abroad, the party that loves Mexican-Americans but hates Maytag plants in Mexico, the party that thinks Obama’s mom deserves a job more than Obama’s dad does? I understand the politics of it. But what about the morals?

Via Cox and Forkum

…or at least I don’t understand their newspapers. Here’s what they say about Lance Armstrong:

Terminatour VI

Several European front pages feature cyclist Lance Armstrong following his record sixth Tour de France victory for his team, US Postal.

“After three weeks of a supremacy that was never disputed… the American from US Postal has become a legend of the Tour,” the Paris daily Le Figaro declares.

“Six times great,” the Madrid daily El Pais pronounces under a photo of Mr Armstrong holding up as many fingers as his Tour wins.

But an editorial in the paper is critical of the Armstrong phenomenon.

“The triumph of Terminatour comes… as questions are asked in various quarters if he won these six Tours cleanly or with the help of stimulants,” it says, although it stresses he has never tested positive.

Mr Armstrong stands accused of “being arrogant, cold, machine-like,” the paper says, recalling the boos and insults to which he was subjected on this year’s Pyrenean and Alpine legs of the Tour.

“But it would be unfair not to recognize his extraordinary quality and command, which from now on make him a sporting legend.”

Switzerland’s La Tribune De Geneve sees Mr Armstrong’s behaviour as haughty, contrasting European cycling’s camaraderie with what it describes as “a typically American business that scorns humanity”.

“Mankind is not fond of those who gorge themselves on success without suffering and without showing compassion for their fellows.”

All I can say is, “huh?”

Daniel Okrent, the NY Times’ Public Editor asks, “Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?” and he answers, “Of course it is.” Read the rest of the article. It’s a great article becuase Okrent is honest about the NY Times bias.

Check out this great article about how environmentalists are protesting other environmentalists’ plans to build an environmental education center. The article is rather amusing. I was most amused by this quote:

Pinky Kushner, a member of the executive committee of the Sierra Club San Francisco Group, said, “We’re opposed to creating buildings in open space. Buildings bring with them automobiles, all sorts of pollution. They tend to be a cancer on the environment.”

This makes me wonder where Pinky lives and works. Does she live in a “cancerous” building? I hope not, otherwise she would be a hypocrite.

This article in the Post explains some of the reasons why I love the Tour de France.

According to this story on Bicycling.com, this Tour de Armstrong’s last, or at least he won’t ride next year. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since he apparently wants to race the Vuelta a Espa

Linda Ronstadt is a bigot. That’s all I can say. The following paragraph from the San Diego Union-Tribune, replace Republican with “gay man” and fundamental Christian with “black people” and see how it reads:

“This is an election year, and I think we’re in desperate trouble and it’s time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.”

For all the Left preaches tolerance, they aren’t very tolerant themselves.

Jesse Walker writes:

He’s making me root for John Kerry. I haven’t voted for a major party’s presidential candidate since 1988, and I have no plans to revert to the habit this year. The Democrats have nominated a senator who