Most Trojan fans consider a “perfect day” to be a day when USC wins, and Notre Dame and UCLA both lose. As an “Irish Trojan,” I have a different definition: a Brendan Loy Perfect Day is a day when USC and ND both win, and UCLA loses. That’s happened a bunch of times since I enrolled at Notre Dame. What… Read more »
Last weekend, it was in the 70s. This weekend: 6-12 inches of snow.
College basketball got underway with its usual whimper on Monday, but Friday is the day things really get started, what with 125 games involving Division I teams happening all around the country. And I’ll be going to one of them — a pretty decent mid-major showdown, right here in Denver. Northern Iowa, defending champion of the Missouri Valley Conference, is… Read more »
If I were to rank the TV shows I spend the most time watching, Sesame Street — or, as Loyette calls it, “Fi-Fi!!!” — would probably be second only to “assorted live sporting events” (if that even counts as a show). Such is the life of a parent of an almost-two-year-old. 🙂 As a result, I tend to get random… Read more »
The craziest play of Saturday’s USC-ASU game. Hacky-sack in Tempe: The announcers didn’t even notice, in the real time, the fumble at the end of the play (which ended up being the focal point of the review). Speaking of which, why did ASU’s #5, Terell Carr — the same guy who kicked the ball earlier — run it back the… Read more »
Bwahahaha: Six pregnant sheep belonging to a Protestant farmer from County Tyrone have been daubed with Irish tricolours in an apparent sectarian attack. The sheep had been left to graze in an isolated field near Ardboe when their coats were covered in green and orange paint to resemble a tricolour. According to the farmer, who does not want to be… Read more »
Turns out, today isn’t just Guy Fawkes Day… …it’s also Flux Capacitor Day!
Remember, remember the fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. More videos here. (Hat tip: C. Stephen Ludlow.)
I don’t understand what the Hell this is, but it doesn’t involve the Yankees winning the World Series, and it does involve hottt Putin-on-Kim-Jong-Il action, so I’m going with it. I think Andrew Sullivan would call this a “mental health break.”
TNR‘s Jonathan Chait, writing before last night’s results became known, quotes a bunch of GOP talking points from 2001, downplaying the significance of Dem victories in Virginia and New Jersey (e.g., “it’s laughable to suggest that this has any national implications,” and “anybody that tries to predict what this means for next year is nuts”). Chait then accurately sums up:… Read more »