Posts Tagged ‘roger federer’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]