Ever since the 4th of July, when we listened to a some patriotic music in the car while driving to a fireworks show, Loyette has been obsessed with, as she adorably calls it, “pay-pee-otic” music. For a while, her favorite was “God Bless America” (which she now has memorized, and will sometimes sing in its entirety when she feels randomly… Read more »
Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News added a late night update to his blog with some new info on the MWC/WAC conference shakeup and BYU’s next moves. First, there is the news that BYU has reached out to the West Coast Conference. The WCC doesn’t have football, so this would be the destination for BYU’s other sports if… Read more »
A few minutes ago, I got a @ message from somebody on Twitter saying, “Wondering if you’ve already seen this??!?!?” with a link to this blog post on Gawker, titled “Law Grads Ungrateful for Their Priceless Knowledge.” What makes the post noteworthy, from my perspective, is the stock photo they used to illustrate it: The post has nothing to do… Read more »
No comments from the peanut gallery on my t-shirt being a symbol of USC’s “dirty” program, please. 🙂 Oh, and about those hand-prints on Becky’s bra? I’d love to take credit, but they’re totally not mine! My hands are way bigger. 😛 They’re actually hers. I’m not sure what inspired her to grab her own boobs… I guess that’s just… Read more »
If you’ve been following the Mountain West-WAC drama of recent days, you really need to check out the Mountain West’s Facebook feed. (What’s below is just a small sample.) Funny stuff.
It’s been a crazy day for conference realignment, and I mean really, really crazy — we’ve been through basically the entire cycle of the Pac-16 / Big 12 drama, except with the mid-majors, and in the course of like 12 hours instead of a week-plus. Absolutely insane. I don’t know how it will all shake out, but I just want… Read more »
My tweet importer thingy, which depends on the increasingly unreliable FriendFeed, has been up and down, but I just a series of posted tweets that I wanted to reproduce here. WARNING: Rant ahead. Contains some salty language. Proceed at your own risk. The tweets were inspired by this article, in which Glenn Beck reveals himself, once again, to be a… Read more »
Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson on the “Ground Zero mosque”: How precisely is our cause served by treating the construction of a non-radical mosque in Lower Manhattan as the functional equivalent of defiling a grave? It assumes a civilizational conflict instead of defusing it. Symbolism is indeed important in the war against terrorism. But a mosque that rejects radicalism is not… Read more »