The World Sailing Speed Record Council belatedly decided to dismiss the mark set by Sebastian Cattelan in Namibia because he broke the 50-knot barrier on a kiteboard. Here's the video. The headline above gives you the NY Times story.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The Gates Pick
In a TPM post on the Gates pick. I support it. He was plucked from the Iraq Study Group, which called it straight - as this NY Times archive piece shows.
Late to the party
I was late to the Obama party. I feared a weak candidate - thin resume, the Rev. Wright problems, feared the war hero's appeal, etc. So I didn't exult in the big crowds, the youthful followings, etc. that were the first stirrings since 1968 that felt and looked like a genuine popular mass movement.
The Boston Globe has put together a photo essay that cures that problem. It is photo-hagiography at its best. Huge crowds, closeups of the candidate, private moments, casual moments, joyful, hopeful, adulatory faces, a youthful candidate in full stride on the basketball court (didn't do John Kerry any good to scrimmage on the ice with the Bruins. Oh well. Spilt milk, etc.)