Oh no, won’t someone pleeeeeeeeeeese think of the children? Nobody could ever go broke investing in American fainting couch retailers. The FCC is really going to get upset if someone starts looking at the lyric sheet of “Like A Prayer” closely….
Month: February 2012
Kindly old Ron Paul has some, ah, thoughts about abortion and something called “honest rape” in which reprehensible moral sentiments and utter incoherence struggle valiantly for the upper
I’ve been wrong about a lot of things, but Eli Manning was at the top of the list. Today, he (and Manningham) made the plays, and Brady (and Welker, although that really wasn’t a very good
I can’t leave any suspense about the pick, since I already placed my low stakes wager on the Giants (money line and +3) the Monday after the championship games before the sharps bet the Giants payouts down more. The line seems like an obvious botch for a relatively even-matched game on a neutral field. The […]
Via Outside the Beltway, A story about the resurgence of some of the more baroque aspects of Tea Party activism and local politics in the New York Times today. My favorite line: In Maine, the Tea Part
Interesting Times article on the battle between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and areas of Illinois over upgrading levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Essentially, the Army Corps says the leve
Ah, the Patriots: So close to the Super Bowl, yet so far. Wide receiver Tiquan Underwood has been cut by the Patriots less than 24 hours before the big game — bad news for him, of course, but a move that increases the likelihood Chad Ochocinco will be active against the Giants on Sunday. Which […]
Yesterday, 6 players were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I was particularly excited by the inclusion of the great Seattle Seahawk Cortez Kennedy, one of my favorite players in team histo
I had an interesting twitter exchange (@ErikLoomis) today with Andy Bowen (@andymbowen) about John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. I was listening to Ornette’s “The Shape of Jazz to ComeR
It sure looks like it. Pay particular attention to this comment; apparently the faculty member who fired the activist student without following proper procedures was an outspoken critic of unionization. And, disgracefully, the representative body of the UM faculty is also siding with the administration on the general issue. Most of them, I’m sure are […]
While the Republican primary was essentially over after Rick Perry’s Ambien-and-Tito’s Vodka debate performance, the stories now emerging about Newton Leroy’s amusingly inept campaig
Yesterday Alyona and I chatted about Afghanistan: The technical difficulties 6 minutes in threw me off a bit…