The view from my window
Eat your heart out, Andrew Sullivan. Dusk over downtown Denver:
Author Archives: Brendan
12-team Big Ten reveals laughable new logo, stupid division names
As if the fuzzy math inherent in its conference name wasn’t bad enough, the Big Ten — after literally months of thought and consideration by its, uh, braintrust — today revealed a new logo and division names that are in the process of being universally mocked, ridiculed, and generally snarked into oblivion by the Twitter hordes. And with good reason,… Read more »
Metrodome roof collapses due to snow
Awesome video of the cave-in:
It’s beginning to look a lot like… interstellar warfare?
Always my favorite two ornaments on our Christmas tree:
Pregnant pedestrian in Denver run over by car; driver flees; baby dies
Well, this is godawful: DENVER — A pregnant woman was run over in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood Thursday and the woman’s baby did not survive. The accident was reported at 5:02 p.m., at the intersection of East 29th Avenue and Central Park Boulevard, according to Detective John White. The driver did not stop. Shawn Mercer told 7NEWS he was in his… Read more »
BREAKING: The United States Senate is a detestable pile of horse manure
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” an odious and indefensible policy of intentional and irrational discrimination whose repeal is supported by large majorities of voters, soldiers, and members of Congress, as well as the president / commander-in-chief and the leaders of the military itself, nevertheless remains the law of the land — likely for an indefinite period of time into the future,… Read more »
Toddler quotes of the day
This should probably be a regular feature. Yesterday, while holding and playing with Becky’s iPhone: “Daddy, I’m tweeting, just like you tweet.” Today: “Mommy, we might have to bring Ralphie [her stuffed buffalo] and the manatee and your teddy bear downstairs, to keep the Grinch away.” Both quotes are from Loyette, obviously. Although Loyacita is starting to get old enough,… Read more »
BREAKING: Urban Meyer resigning, again
One year after retiring and then un-retiring, Florida’s coach is stepping down, again. Retiring into obscurity, for real this time? Positioning himself to be the next head coach of Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos? Trying to secure the coveted title “The Brett Favre of Coaches” by un-resigning (again) next week? Joining the WAC as its eighth football member? Simply… Read more »
Deep thought of the day
President Obama, whose political and communication skills were supposed to make him the “liberal Reagan,” has instead managed — somehow — to simultaneously and in equal measure piss off both his liberal base and swing voters, such that neither will be inclined to cut him any slack in the second half of his term. Liberals think he’s a total corporatist… Read more »
It’s beginning to look a lot like #PANIC
I already tweeted this, but since new tweets aren’t showing up in the sidebar right now, due to the hangover from the recent blog outage… Friday’s Planet Money podcast, about Europe’s debt woes and the potential Lehman-style mega-crisis that could be in their (and our) future, was a classic in the #PANIC!!! genre. It may be their most unnerving episode… Read more »