I guess this trailer came out about two weeks ago, but I hadn’t seen it until now: OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG !!! Clearly, they’ve taken some major liberties with the Battle of Hogwarts. And you know what? I’m fine with that. As long as the on-screen version stays true to the very broad outlines of the meta-plot, and is… Read more »
All-time March Madness hero Lorenzo Charles, of “They won it! On the dunk!” fame, has died in a bus accident at age 47. Charles’s signature basket was memorialized, among countless other places, in the third verse of my Battle Hymn of the Underdog: Glory, glory, Cinderella! Glory, glory, Cinderella! Glory, glory, Cinderella! The Madness marches on! I have read the… Read more »
The polls are closed in the Third Biennial (!) Loy Baby Pool. The most popular birth date predictions are: July 4 (6), July 7 (6), July 1 (5), July 3 (5) and July 12 (4). Only 2 people picked the actual due date, July 8. Also, although July 1, 3 and 4 were all very popular predictions, nobody picked July… Read more »
And not in the courts. In the legislature. The Republican-controlled legislature. 33-29. All 29 Democrats, plus 4 Republicans, voted “yes.” In a word: YAY!!! In two words: Know Hope. Speaking of which, Andrew Sullivan is sobbing tears of joy.
“The only problem with this God-damned Unionis its God-damned members.”–a long-ago Connecticut union leader who shall remain nameless Thanks to byzantine voting rules and petulant prison guards, Connecticut’s public sector unions have rejected the contract deal cut between their leaders and Democratic Governor Daniel Malloy, setting the stage for massive layoffs and a possible economic “lost decade” for the already… Read more »
The debt ceiling talks have collapsed. I have little to add, really, to what I’ve already said about this. The political point-scoring brinksmanship on this issue is appalling. The Republicans’ position is logically indefensible, wholly and completely. The Tea Party’s ongoing temper tantrum about the mathematically necessary expedient of raising the debt ceiling — as I’ve said before, this is… Read more »
Let’s review. USC’s football program allegedly allowed agents, proto-agents and/or runners to run rampant (I’ll ignore for the moment that this was not actually proven), and failed to monitor the activities of one “high-profile athlete” (two athletes counting O.J. Mayo, who played basketball, not football), or rather said athlete’s family. An assistant coach supposedly knew about the athlete’s family’s activities… Read more »
We’ve got 26 entries in the Third Loy Baby Pool, with the earliest prediction — Chris “Doc” Evans, who predicted a birth this Saturday at 9:45 PM — approaching fast. I can’t help but notice, however, a surprising dearth of entries on either the baby’s actual due date (July 8) or the day after (July 9). Between AMLTrojan’s entry (7/7/11,… Read more »
Sorry the blog has been so epically dead in the last few days and weeks. I’ve just been really busy. But hey, here’s some news! Thanks to the tireless efforts of Becky’s friend Sundari at Sustainable Food Denver, our trio of chickens now has a path to citizenship! Monday night, the Denver City Council passed a proposal that will allow… Read more »
Possibly the greatest audiobook ever.