Achenblog: August 8, 2010 - August 14, 2010
Weekend reading
Your neighborhood Achenblogger is not on vacation -- not at all, just seems that way -- but rather is doing some heavy lifting on a story and is now, at the risk of mixing metaphors, coming up momentarily for...
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Joel Achenbach
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August 13, 2010; 5:54 PM ET |
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It's all Obama's fault
This morning during the thunderstorm the house sprung a leak I'd never seen before, the raindrops tap-tapping onto the window sill inside the living room, something that certainly does not speak well of the integrity of the house --...
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Joel Achenbach
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August 12, 2010; 9:51 AM ET |
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The Jet Blue flight attendant -- and pulling a Slater
I think we all want to pull a Slater now and then. We want to activate the escape slide. Maybe at work, maybe at home. We want to shout "It's been great!" and grab a beer and slater on...
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Joel Achenbach
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August 10, 2010; 8:15 AM ET |
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Sports world knocked for a loop
Football season is back! Last night was the Hall of Fame game, which, as the Achenbro puts it, "is always a nail-biter." Actually, there are fewer things more pointless than football in August. I'm trying to think of even...
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Joel Achenbach
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August 9, 2010; 8:21 AM ET |
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