While SEC homers fret about the unthinkable possibility that the Best League From Top To BottomTM could be denied its rightful place in the It’s-A-War Invitational BCS National Championship Game because — y’know — its top teams keep losing games, Stewart Mandel offers a much-needed reality check that will be promptly ignored by everyone who needs to hear it:
Topics discussed include a “Liberty Tree” update, parental #PANIC!, the hypocrisy of conservative political correctness (as seen in the California gubernatorial “whore” kerfuffle), the gospel of Dave Ramsey, what farmer’s markets can tell us about our sex lives, and the fact that “gas exchange is really fun.” Plus, our first Spousal Three-Minute “Who Cares” Challenge FAIL! (Totally unmentioned: USC’s two-game… Read more »
The most recent Senate forecast update from Nate Silver’s Five Thirty Eight, published last Thursday, shows the GOP with a 22 percent chance of winning at least 51 seats in the U.S. Senate. (That percentage would be in the mid-30s — i.e., probably a bit north of 1-in-3 odds — if the Republicans in Delaware hadn’t committed an act of… Read more »
Becky and I recorded our inaugural Living Room Times Podcast episode this evening. At 51 minutes and 38 seconds, it’s roughly double the length we’d aimed for, but oh well. Perhaps we’ll get better at brevity as we learn the medium. Anyway, without further ado: The topics discussed include our neurotic foster dog, Becky’s delicious homegrown tomatillos, my new Mac… Read more »
Two weeks ago, Ivan Maisel informed us that, “though it annoys to no end the rest of college football to hear it, the SEC is different. … There are plenty of…statistics and ratings by which to calibrate the primacy of the SEC. ‘In this league, there are legitimately 10 teams, maybe more, that can be Top 25 teams,’ [Tennessee linebacker… Read more »
Pollster: “There’s not a lot of point in breaking down feelings toward Blagojevich along demographic lines because pretty much everyone in the state hates him about the same.” Heh. He’s got 8% favorable ratings, 83% unfavorable, which is apparently the worst rating for a politician that Public Policy Polling has ever seen. And you know those 8% are either family… Read more »
I’m hesitant to uncritically read too much into Cal cutting its baseball program — also lacrosse and gymnastics — partly because I haven’t read very much about it, but also because I suspect that it may have less to do with broad #sportsbubble trends than with conditions unique to the Great Recession and the ridiculous, wolf-face crazy budgetary clusterf**k that… Read more »
(Clip is a combination of several different recordings, hence the key changes and such.) Also… Fight On, Trojans!!! Don’t Coug it against the Cougars!!!
Clive Crook on the Republicans’ “Pledge to America”: On taxes, it promises to “stop all job-killing tax hikes” — that is, to retain all of the Bush tax cuts — but says nothing about the comprehensive tax reform that will be needed to raise new revenues and balance the budget without avoidable damage to growth. The Pledge maintains the pretence… Read more »