This season, for the first time, I’m going to host a season-long college football pick ’em contest through Yahoo Sports. Each week, contestants will predict the outcome, against the point spread, of every Saturday game involving a Top 25 team. The deadline is 5 minutes before kickoff of the first such game (generally noon EDT, or 10am MDT). I decided… Read more »
In case you didn’t know, Southern California is on fire. (PANIC!!) Here are some nifty time-lapse videos of the blaze (or “RAGING UNSTOPPABLE INFERNO OF DEATH,” as Matt Drudge will be calling it by morning): Station File Time Lapse #4 from Dan Finnerty on Vimeo. Time Lapse Test: Station Fire from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
Andrew Sullivan, praising Ted Kennedy’s record: “There wasn’t a gay rights bill this compulsive heterosexual didn’t champion.” Heh.
I’m planning to host another Live Blog / Live Chat, my first since Selection Sunday (and first since the new blog launched), this Saturday at 1:30 PM MDT — kickoff time for USC and Notre Dame football — and I did a bit of poking around this weekend, exploring live-chat alternatives to Chatroll. I found a nifty option called SavorChat,… Read more »
College football season is almost underway — the first games are on Thursday, and opening Saturday is one week from today — and it could be a banner year for that favorite Brendan Loy hobby-horse, the mid-majors’ endless quixotic struggle to “bust the BCS.” In the wake of Utah’s virtuoso performance last January vs. the OMG-It’s-A-War conference’s runner-up, Alabama, and… Read more »
Alan Sullivan: “When [investors] realize the V could really be a W, they will panic again.” He’s talking about a V-shaped or W-shaped recession, of course. On the bright side, at least we’d know which president to blame for a “W”-shaped recession. Heh. (We’d better hope we don’t get an “O”-shaped recession, since that would involve the economy actually going… Read more »
Continuing on the theme of photos from my parents’ visit to Denver (which has been great fun!), here are some from our lunch date Tuesday at Katie Mullen’s, a neat Irish restaurant and pub downtown that opened in February. I love this shot of my Dad, wearing his classic skeptical-Joe-Loy face: Here’s my Mom taking a picture of him, with… Read more »
Fans leave Coors Field last night after the Dodgers’ 6-1 win over the Rockies ended Colorado’s four-game winning streak: I took the photo from Fadó Irish Pub, where I was watching Brian Clancy (here’s a photo) with my Mom, my Dad, Kristy and her boyfriend, and maybe a hundred of our closest Rockies-fan friends, who dropped in on their way… Read more »
Thought for the day: It just occurred to me that there’s a noticeable theme, cutting across various issues, to a number of the arguments I’ve been reading and hearing lately from many Republicans and conservatives. That theme is cognitive dissonance. For instance: • Obama’s soft-on-terror stances are endangering America by dismantling crucial Bush policies. This proves the Republicans were right… Read more »
Above: Via NWS, a computer-simulated radar image for Saturday at 8:00 PM EDT. CAVEAT #1: This is a long-range, 84-hour forecast from a single computer model, and is quite likely to be wrong. CAVEAT #2: It also doesn’t look much like a hurricane. A commenter on Alan Sullivan’s blog mocks it as “Occluded Front Danny.” Heh. Tropical Storm Danny has… Read more »