Yikes. I was following the story at work, and when I tuned out, it seemed under control. Just found out the guy killed eight people. I was born in Omaha; my father is buried there; many relatives are there as well. It’s why Omaha is on my "Live Webcam" stream on the righthand column. Mom reports all the rels are … Read More
Women’s Pro Golf
Up until today, women’s professional golf has ranked about No. 141 in my list of favorite sports, falling somewhere between tetherball and underwater hockey. But now I would place women’s professional golf at, oh, No. 54. This is why and this is why.
Broadway Openings
A bunch of them, now that the strike there is over. I’ve been curious to hear about two plays: Aaron Sorkin’s latest — The Farnsworth Invention — starring Hamk Azaria (about the invention of the TV), and Tracy Lett’s latest — August: Osage County. As for Farnsworth, the New York Times was luke-warm: This information-crammed, surface-skimming biodrama about the creators … Read More
Evaluation Time
HillaryClinton.com: The Volokh Conspiracy (blog of prominent law school professors): CNN: Emily Mark’s blog: The New York Times political blog (The Caucus) The White House website: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems Group (affiliated with the Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence Laboratory) website: This blog: Dammit!
My Year Of Being Sybil
What I have been in the past year: Jewish floor shop owner (Little Shop of Horrors) Army psychiatrist or possibly a hallucination (Bug) Oily nightclub owner (The Full Monty) Unemployed steelworker and bad stripper (The Full Monty) Irish priest (The Full Monty) Repo man (The Full Monty) Gay latino dance instructor (The Full Monty) Bespeckled messenger from God (God’s Favorite) … Read More
The Huckabee Surge And L’Affaire DuMond
Like him or not, I think it’s time he gets moved from the also-ran category to the candidate-to-be-taken-seriously category. Check out the surge (Huckabee in green): He’s leading in Iowa, and the new LA Times/Bloomberg poll now has him in second nationally, surging past Romney. [UPDATE: Rassmussen poll out today has Huckabee in first nationally!] Not bad for a guy … Read More
Lying Or Incompetent?
Joe Biden, on the President’s line that he wasn’t briefed on the new Iran NIE until last week: “Are you telling me a president who is briefed every single morning, who is fixated on Iran, is not told back in August that the tentative conclusion of 16 intelligence agencies in the United States government said they had abandoned their effort … Read More
Tweety On The Stand
How come I never get a case like this? Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary. An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case. In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes … Read More
Women Are Wimps
Although primarily a law blog, there is an interesting post up at The Volokh Conspiracy about the psychological differences between men and women. Well, actually, most of it is unsurprising. First we learn that women are more risk-averse than men (duh!), that men are more aggressive than women (duh!), and that women are more nurturing and empathetic than men (duh!). … Read More
Omnibus Post Because Frankly My Plate Is Full
Ugh. So much to discuss: (1) White House egg-on-the-face: After months of beating the war drums to invade Iraq, it turns out that Iran doesn’t have a nuclear bomb program after all. As Matt says: "Meanwhile, how outrageous is it that the best twelve months of alarmism from Bush & Cheney have come in the context of an environment where … Read More
Avenue Q/Larry Craig Mashup
Probably would have been funnier if I posted it a couple of months ago…
Not For The Easily Offended
Odd, funny, disturbing…. but only 1:10 long.
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas….
…on Main Street in my hometown (Concord NH) Getting 6 to 12 inches between now and Tuesday. If only the darned tree would just stay up….