My liberal readers will already agree with what I’m about to quote, and my conservative readers will immediately dismiss it because the link goes to nytimes.com, so I don’t know why I bother — but for what it’s worth: Just look at the outside evaluations of the stimulus. Perhaps the best-known economic research firms are IHS Global Insight, Macroeconomic Advisers… Read more »
The blogosphere and twittersphere are buzzing about this Seattle Times column criticizing NBC’s endlessly tape-delayed Olympics coverage, and its complete tone-deafness about the issue. (See also this lengthy Deadspin post, featuring one angry viewer complaint after another.) I gotta say, I find that, in this instant-information age, the Olympics are rapidly being fundamentally transformed from something I watch on TV… Read more »
This is priceless. Tamyra D’Ippolito, the liberal Bloomington gadfly (and sudden right-blogosphere cause célèbre) who’s a few measly signatures away from becoming the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Indiana — or at least from forcing the Dems to engage in some very unseemly, and perhaps widely politically damaging, hardball tactics to prevent that scenario — is posting up a… Read more »
In the wake of Evan Bayh’s decision not to seek re-election, Campaign Diaries reports on a potentially decisive election-procedure wrinkle in the Hoosier State: Bayh’s retirement also sets up a very confusing situation because it comes just 24 hours from the registration deadline for statewide candidates! While Indiana’s filing deadline is on Friday, Senate candidates need to deposit 500 signatures… Read more »
Break out the brooms, baby! In the words of one tweeter, “The football monopoly in LA ain’t over, and the basketball monopoly is alive and well too! Fight On!” Hahaha. If only I’d made a bet with Tran this year! (And if only there was some potential for a postseason payoff for the Trojans!)
Notre Dame and Gonzaga both have big games tonight — at Seton Hall at 5pm MDT, a crucial game for the Irish’s bubble hopes, and vs. St. Mary’s at 9pm MDT for the WCC lead, respectively — and of course, USC hosts UCLA on Sunday, hoping to reprise the 21-point beatdown the Trojans laid on the Bruins at Pauley last… Read more »
My favorite ad of the night: Here’s the story of how the ad came together, including this nugget: to film the ad, Leno “enter[ed] the Ed Sullivan Theater during the taping of Letterman’s show [last Tuesday], when there’s often commotion from fans on Broadway, but Leno wore a disguise: ‘A hooded sweatshirt, dark sunglasses and a fake moustache,’ says Burnett…. Read more »
I’m billing this as a “live chat” rather than a “live blog,” since I don’t know how much I’ll be participating in it, what with girls being awake for much of the game. But, at the very least, my occasional tweets will appear automatically in the chat window below.
[WARNING: Political ranting ahead, with some profanity. I’m pissed off.] I’ll be the first to admit that, as a relatively new Coloradan, I don’t pay as much attention to state politics as I should. But tonight, on my commute home, I heard a story on Colorado Public Radio about the current budget debate — and it made me furious with… Read more »
Continuing on with the discussion in my prior tweets and links and longer blog posts about the possibility of NCAA Tournament expansion, I want to expand on something I proposed in comments the other day. If the NCAA is absolutely dead set on expansion, there’s a right way to do it, and a wrong way. The wrong way is to… Read more »