I’ve never read Atlas Shrugged, so I don’t have a dog in the fight that this quote may create — I just think it’s funny: There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,… Read more »
I’m having a little too much fun setting this up…
An inside account of the government shutdown negotiations, and John Boehner’s role at the center of them. I’ve already given you the money quote. Meanwhile, a look ahead to the impending debt ceiling battle. Let me be the first to say, “#PANIC!”
The demolition of the old Stapleton Airport parking lot continues apace. Kind of cool. Wider view below.
Due to my Twitter hiatus, I can’t retweet this tweet by @pourmecoffee — so I’ll blog it and blockquote it instead: Goodnight moon. Goodnight Boehner, goodnight Reid. Goodnight Bachmann, goodnight Trump’s hair, goodnight morons everywhere. LOL!!! By the way, you can consider this an open thread on the impending government shutdown if you want. I don’t really have anything much… Read more »
Brilliant video of the VCU “riot” after the Butler loss. (Warning: profanity!) Doesn’t look like much of a riot, really — more like idiotic, and somewhat dangerous, but mostly non-destructive, drunken revelry — but maybe that’s the soundtrack talking. Anyway, great video, courtesy of Mondial Creative Labs on Vimeo.
King County, Washington, meet Waukesha County, Wisconsin: In one explosive stroke Thursday, the clerk in a Republican stronghold tilted the tight Supreme Court race in favor of Justice David Prosser by recovering thousands of untallied votes for the incumbent. Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday that she failed to save on her computer and then report 14,315 votes in… Read more »
Why isn’t there an iTunes-like service where I can go online with my iPhone, find the local radio broadcast for basically any sporting event, and pay $0.99 per game to listen to it? Maybe not for sports like Major League Baseball that already have fairly advanced systems for listening/watching online, but for other sports? Like college basketball and football, say?… Read more »
With basketball over, football far away, and Becky heading into her third trimester, I’ve decided to take a break from Twitter. This eliminates, at least for the moment, the need for an extra or double-wide blog sidebar showing my latest tweets. So we’re back to the old 835-pixel-wide layout. Low-res and mobile users, rejoice! (Apropos of which, if this page… Read more »
Pat McGriff of Boone, Iowa, a secretary at Iowa State University who has been entering my free NCAA Pools since she found them over the Internet in 2009, won the 16th annual Living Room Times men’s pool, riding her unlikely pick of a UConn national title to an surprising pool victory. She rallied from 123rd place at the end of… Read more »