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...Pentagon tactfully neglects to mention that only a very small percentage of our bombs are smart. During the Gulf War, smart bombs accounted for only about 7 percent of explosives dropped on Iraq and Kuwait. The rest—all 88,500 tons—were of the dumb variety, which missed their targets 70 percent of the time. Maybe this time around we are using a few more smart bombs for every dumb bomb, and maybe the dumb bombs have gotten smarter (more accurate). Of course, the Pentagon will not release these figures until the war is over...
...York to do Letterman. All the House did, embattled legislators insisted, was adjourn a day early to get out of the way of the guys in the haz-mat suits who would be sweeping for spores in the halls of power. It would have been irresponsible and dumb to do otherwise, they said. And they could claim some vindication on Saturday when investigators found anthrax in the mail area of the Ford Office Building, on the House side of the Capitol...
...Catholic, small-town, the daughter of the police chief--none of which prevents Bev (Drew Barrymore) from getting knocked up by the wrong boy (Steve Zahn, playing dumb but sweet-natured) at age 15. The rest of the movie is about her trying to realize her ambitions (college, writing books, ensuring her son's love) while dealing with her husband's fecklessness, her boy's fractiousness, her own foot-in-mouth feistiness. It is somewhat repetitive, but it is also wonderfully acted, especially by Barrymore. Like the movie itself, she's neither self-pitying nor self-aggrandizing--just real...
...York to do the Letterman show. All the House did, embattled legislators insisted, was adjourn a day early to get out of the way of the guys in the haz-mat suits who would be sweeping for spores in the halls of power. It would have been irresponsible and dumb to do otherwise, they said. And they could claim some vindication on Saturday when investigators found anthrax in the mail area of the Ford Office Building, on the House side of the Capitol...
...without their faults, but at least they get it when it comes to Clemens. They don’t embrace him and never have. He’s a hired gun to them. Perhaps they’ve also noted that he’s big and dumb and throws bats at people. Really, what’s to like...