The Ultimate College Sports Bar Smackdown semifinals are still underway — polls close Friday night — and after falling way behind early, The Backer has rallied to a near-tie with Clemson’s The Esso Club. At last check, it’s Esso 2905, Backer 2826. Bottom line: Fellow Domers, THE BACKER NEEDS YOU!!! Vote for The Backer, or Al Franken and ACORN will… Read more »
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The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court ruling in the hotly contested Senate race between Democrat and comedian Al Franken and his Republican opponent Norm Coleman. Their ruling rejected claims by the challenger that inconsistent election practices and flawed decisions by lower courts had cost him the election. “Al Franken received the highest number of votes legally cast… Read more »
A 13 story building in Shanghai tipped over this weekend. Yes, you read that right, it tipped over. Thirteen stories. It was still under construction and fortunately no one was hurt. IT TIPPED OVER. Check out the link for some amazing pics.
The polls are closed for the second Loy Baby Pool, and we’ve got a total of 70 contestants. After the jump, a look at everyone’s predictions for when the baby will be born — and the range of birth dates & times in which each contestant would win.
It continues to be a difficult time to be a celebrity. Pitchman Billy Mays, famous for his OxiClean and OrangeGlo commercials, as well as the co-star of the Discovery Channel show Pitchmen, was found dead at his Tampa area home today.
Continuing on the theme of things I didn’t get a chance to blog about when they happened, because I didn’t have a blog at the time: here’s a time-lapse video from April 29, the day we moved into our new house. It shows our moving day from beginning to end, starting at our old condo in South Denver, then ending… Read more »
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When we last left Brendan and his so called “web-log,” it was November of 2008, and we were in the midst of the college and pro football seasons. I was in the middle of lamenting (well, to my friends, not here) that my beloved Pittsburgh Steelers looked OK, but there was no way they would make a deep playoff run… Read more »
In the wake of yesterday’s shocking events, most people seem, unsurprisingly and perhaps even understandably, to be primarily eulogizing Michael Jackson, pop icon and troubled genius, rather than Michael Jackson, accused child molester and all-around weirdo. This reminds me a bit of Richard Nixon’s death, when there was a tendency, at least in the initial days after he died, to… Read more »
