Round the Horn

Well let's toss the ball to Ben Shapiro, who states in his article today, "But will the Bush administration push for war or play the waiting game?

It is not comforting to see the Bush administration relying on the United Nations and International Atomic Energy Agency to shut down the mullahs. These organizations didn't get the job done in Iraq or North Korea, and Iran is infinitely more dangerous than either of those countries. Playing the waiting game is not a viable option."

Wait a second . . . if Iran was infinitely more dangerous than Iraq, why didn't we handle them first? And doesn't the use of the term infinitely imply that they are infinitely dangerous? And if Iran is infinitely dangerous, well, what good will invading them do us?

Of course it's always possible that Young Mr. Shapiro is indulging in a bit of hyperbole.

At second, we have David Limbaugh, relating the events surrounding Mel Gibson's forthcoming movie. "Even before the release of the movie, scheduled for March 2004, Gibson is getting his wish. "Everyone who worked on this movie was changed. There were agnostics and Muslims on set converting to Christianity… (and) people being healed of diseases."

There are funny things I could say here, but i'm not going to mock another person's faith. Suffice it to say that I suspect Mr. Gibson's difficulty in getting his picture released has more to do with his decision to release it in Aramaic without subtitles, than any anti-Christian prejudice.

Rounding the horn, at third we have Brent Bozell, commenting on Michael Savage's firing. According to him it's nice that we are willing to slap a conservative for wishing the death of a caller on the air, but liberals wish death to conservatives all the time (or, at least twice), and nothing happens to them.

I will note that Julianna MalVaux's comments on Clarence Thomas were pretty over the top, and reprehensible, but I don't think they go to the same place that Mr. Savage's comments did. Mr. Savage was attacking a member of his audience, not a public figure.

And at home plate we have, well, me. I always play catcher. Doesn't involve moving around a whole lot and I can heckle the batter. Stupid batter. You couldn't hit the ball if you had an automated ball hitting machine.

Sorry, got carried away.