@Pres_Bartlet: So, is the ability to name a national champion of college football under the powers of President of the United States? If so, congrats, TCU.
I haven’t blogged about this morning’s awful shooting at a “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson, in which a gunman of unknown motive and mental state attacked American democracy, critically injured a congresswoman, killed a federal judge, and killed or injured various others. But I’ve been tweeting up a storm about it, as you can see over on the… Read more »
LSU’s win over Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl eliminated David K. and left Jeff Freeze as the last Oregon-picking contestant standing, heading for a final faceoff with Auburn-picking Randy Styles in the 6th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest. Freeze and Styles are both a perfect 10-0 in the New Year, having gotten every game right since… Read more »
I went on a bit of a Twitter rant just now, via iPhone while grabbing a coffee at Starbucks, after my phone got a CNN Breaking News alert which announced: “A now-retracted UK study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an ‘elaborate fraud,’ a medical journal reports.” Here’s the rant: What say you, @JennyMcCarthy? RT @cnnbrk: Study linking #autism… Read more »
With Ohio State’s win over Arkansas, the sixth annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest is down to just three contestants with a chance to win, and just two bowls that matter — the Cotton Bowl on Friday and the BCS title game on Monday. If Texas A&M wins the Cotton Bowl and Oregon wins the title game, David… Read more »
A few thoughts about Stanford’s impressive Orange Bowl win over Virginia Tech last night: • In retrospect, how big of a game was Stanford-Oregon? Wow. • The Pac-10 can now finish no worse than 2-2 in bowls. (Thanks, Huskies!) Hopefully Oregon makes it 3-1. • I hope Oregon beats Auburn convincingly, so the final polls are #1 Oregon, #2 TCU… Read more »
Last night’s crushing loss to Stanford by Rachel Dulitz‘s favorite team, Virginia Tech, didn’t quite dump Dulitz from the catbird seat she’s occupied since December 26 atop the LRT Pick ’em Contest. But it made her lead precarious, and left her potentially hours from elimination. The contest’s top four contestants — Dulitz, Randy Styles, Jeff Freeze and David K. —… Read more »
With seven bowls to go, five contestants remain mathematically alive to win the 6th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest. They are the current Top 5 in the standings: Rachel Dulitz (currently in 1st place), Josh Rubin (tied for 2nd), Randy Styles (tied for 2nd), David K. (tied for 4th) and Jeff Freeze (tied for 4th). Nobody else… Read more »
First of all, if you weren’t visiting the blog late last week, you may not realize that I finally published my Defining Day #2 and Defining Day #1 posts. But I did! Only a year late! Anyway, there ya go. You can even read the entire Defining Days of the Decade series in one place, if you have several hours… Read more »
With the girls asleep upstairs — Becky having gone to bed shortly after our traditional Milk Toast at 10pm local time (midnight Eastern) — I rang in the New Year by following through on my ridiculous/stupid/awesome “DU Bally Drop” idea. Here’s the video: I was also livecasting via iPhone, as you can see. Here’s that archived video, complete with Tom… Read more »