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MEMO TO FABRICE SANTORO:  Buck up, man!  Cool it with the whining, cry-baby shtick.  Show some backbone.
Santoro is the lily-livered professional tennis player who got blown out by Andy Roddick in the first round of the U.S. Open in New York.  Did I say professional? Santoro looked anything but as he quit on match point in […]

TODAY’S MUSING:   National Public Radio just aired yet another update on American casualties in Iraq.  Now there’s a fascinating word:  casualties.   According to Webster’s, the military usage refers to the loss of personnel from active service due to “death, injury, etc.”
Not to pick on NPR, which generally does a great job, but it astounds me […]