Achenblog: February 27, 2005 - March 5, 2005
Spring Training
I'm writing this poolside at a place called the Martindale. It's not exactly the Ritz, but it's terrific, an Art Deco hotel in Fort Lauderdale with no more than a dozen rooms or so, a kidney-shaped pool and a...
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March 5, 2005; 8:01 PM ET |
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Nothing in the Hands
One of my friends is appalled by the previous post about the orange grove. Okay, I admit it, I didn't steal any oranges. I didn't even think about stealing any oranges. Even the ones on the ground, I stayed...
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March 4, 2005; 11:12 AM ET |
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The Spaceship
Yesterday I had a tour of the space shuttle, or at least I think it was the space shuttle -- you can't really tell, because it's so completely surrounded by hardware, pipes, platforms, wires, etc. There was some kind...
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March 4, 2005; 8:39 AM ET |
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The Pressure of a Boondoggle
My friends are giving me grief for this trip to Florida, which they view as a boondoggle. What they don't realize is that a boondoggle has its own set of pressures. Indeed the stress of being here in such...
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March 3, 2005; 9:13 AM ET |
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Bulletin from Florida
After 33 years of waiting, Washington baseball fans today finally had the chance to watch a major league baseball game featuring a Washington team. It happened in a cow pasture in Florida, in the alleged town of "Viera." It's...
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March 2, 2005; 6:37 PM ET |
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Road Trip!!!!!
I'm about to jump on a plane and fly to Florida for spring break, a reporting venture at NASA and the first Washington Nationals spring training game. SO LONG, SUCKERS!!!...
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March 2, 2005; 6:12 AM ET |
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The Mysterious Key
A couple of weeks ago I found a mysterious key in the trunk of my car. As a general rule, I don't put keys in the trunk. No corpses had been stuffed in there after a gangland murder, so...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 1, 2005; 10:24 AM ET |
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Worries
Sometimes you realize you're worried but you can't remember what you're worried about. You know there's something out there, a thing that was worry-worthy. You ransack your memory. Gone. It has become a stray worry. It's a worry on...
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March 1, 2005; 8:38 AM ET |
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Do Newspapers Have a Future?
I heartily agree with Mike Getler's assertion that newspapers still have a future, and their circulation decline will level out. Of course, Getler and I are more than 100 years old, combined. Remind me to ask Mike Wallace, Morley...
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February 28, 2005; 12:17 PM ET |
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Jim Varney Overlooked Again
Dave Letterman sure had a good night. Chris Rock is brilliant, but Shales called it right this morning. The standup act doesn't always translate onto an Oscar stage; they should have let him curse, say whatever he wanted, let...
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February 28, 2005; 8:31 AM ET |
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