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Cheap Seats Daily: How Long Before Dan Snyder Buys Facebook?
Via Dan Snyder's message board, ExtremeSskins: The Redskins have just broke the crust on a new Facebook page.
A random sampling of the comments, sics and all:
Mark: no one did thier job 8 hours ago
Wayne: Hall and Smoot need to learn how to wrap-up and stop ski-diving and the tackles. If they are scared to hit find somebody that will!!!!!! 4 hours ago
Mikhiel: They looked a hot mess!!! but they looked horrible as a team! I would definitely come up withsome major changes more than just qb like we tried during the summer! Yesterday at 5:18pm
(AFTER THE JUMP: And this is what Snyder’s FRIENDS are saying? Snyder buys Facebook? Federer does Don Beyer no favors? Kiddie Bias™ on the chessboard? Huge week for Asian Bias™ on the links? Back on track on the Road to 100 Losses™?)
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How Will You Spend Swiss National Day?
Seven hundred and eighteen years ago tomorrow, Switzerland became independent of the British Empire, which until that point governed the territory, known as "Sweden," using fearsome galloglass mercenaries (rösti, the Swiss national dish, is named for technique the Swiss used to humiliate the galloglasses after they were deposed---the soldiers were dragged in front of a dais and had to listen to embarrassing stories about themselves told by people eating potatoes). So happy birthday, Switzerland! Some ways to celebrate:
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Cheap Seats Daily: Asian Tiger?
Let's get right to the issue of the day. The winners of the first three AT&T National events at Congressional:
2007 --- KJ Choi
2008 --- Anthony Kim
2009 --- Tiger Woods
The liberal media doesn't want you to know: There's an Asian bias to Tiger's tournament!
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Woods exploited this bias to beat a field that included upstart white guys Hunter Mahan and Bruce Boudreau. (What? The Capitals coach wasn't in the AT&T National? I coulda sworn I read 10 stories about him playing Congressional, saw some video even. My bad.)
AFTER THE JUMP: Another Nats fireworks snafu? Why do tennis players carry their own sweaty shit? Is Manny Acta the new Norv Turner?
Did Obama Confuse Switzerland and Sweden? Don Beyer Named Ambassador to Wrong Country!
Don Beyer has been announced as the new U.S. ambassador to Switzerland.
Gotta be a mistake.
What happened to Sweden?
Beyer's a sainted figure in my native Falls Church, and I'd heard a couple months ago from townies that Beyer was in fact going to get the Ambassador to Sweden job.
That made total sense. And not just because Beyer was a huge Obama fundraiser.
Beyer's also Mr. Volvo! He's been Falls Church's ambassador to Sweden forever through the work at his dealership! He's beloved by Swedish commerce types, and even sponsors U.S./Sweden chamber of commerce golf tournaments! He's helped Sweden enjoy a fabulous trade imbalance with the U.S. for decades! "Beyer" might as well have umlauts over the E's, the guy's so perfect for the job.
So I called up Beyer's office to confirm. Folks there denied, denied, denied there was any chance of him getting that job or any other job from the administration. Then after I posted what I'd hoped was a jokey refutation of the ambassador rumors on City Desk, Beyers staff called me and acted as if I'd mucked everything up and committed some sort of journalistic war crime just by putting such stuff in print. Their over-reaction was as bizarre as any I'd ever gotten from a story.
And now it comes out that Beyer will indeed be an ambassador. Only to Switzerland.
What's he ever done for Switzerland?
Again: Gotta be a mistake.
An understandable one, from my perspective. I always get the two confused. And I think everybody does. Quick now:
Roger Federer: Swiss or Swede?
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Weekend In Review: Nadal Loses!
Who knows what Andy Alexander was up to this week when he wrote his column as ombudsman of the Washington Post. As a vet with decades in the news biz, Alexander might be expected to, like, peg his column to a news event within, say, the past several years. But check this out----he writes about the Post's policies on demands from people not to publish certain stuff, yet cites no recent cases in point.
