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Pac-12 Power Rankings Week 6

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The Rankings had a BYE last week as I was out of town helping my brother and sister-in-law pack up and move. Check out the rankings below.

My latest meta-political tweet-rant

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Last night, inspired by the generally unsatisfying, incomplete, and often vacuous nature of the tweets I keep seeing from both Left and Right about the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and the ongoing economic calamity — and also by this National Review article, among other big-picture economic pieces I’ve read recently — I went on another one of my extended Twitter… Read more »

R.I.P., Steve Jobs

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Apple co-founder, chairman and (until very recently) CEO Steve Jobs, whose inventions repeatedly changed the world as we know it, died today of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 56. His death prompted massive news coverage (totally overshadowing Sarah Palin’s decision not to run for president) and an overwhelming outpouring of public grief more typical of a head of state’s… Read more »

On an epic night of baseball, Boston’s worst 5 minutes since Bill Buckner complete historic collapse

The final night of Major League Baseball’s regular season was ridiculous, absurd, impossible, unbelievable, indescribable. Thanks to a win earlier in the evening by the St. Louis Cardinals, the Atlanta Braves needed a win to force a one-game playoff for the NL wild card that they once seemed certain to win (having led by 10 1/2 games in late August)…. Read more »

Obama visits Colorado, apparently thinks he’s in Wyoming

President Obama is in Denver today to give a speech about his jobs plan, but apparently he — or at least his press office — are slightly confused about which rectangular-shaped state Denver is located in: AAAH-HAHAHAHA. Hey, cut the man a break. It’s hard to keep all 57 states straight!

Pac-12 Power Rankings week 3 last minute edition

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Apologies for the late post, in all the excitement over the latest Confrencegeddon flare up I forgot I hadn’t posted yet. Things have settled down and it looks like I won’t have to start doing Pac-16 rankings anytime soon. On to this weeks soon to be out dated rankings. NORTH 1. Stanford (3-0, 1-0 Pac-12) LW 1 Stanford continues pummeling… Read more »

Decaying UARS satellite could hit U.S. (but probably won’t)

[NOTE: For the latest, follow @UARS_Reentry on Twitter.] NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, better known as “UARS,” will soon crash back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry. NASA previously thought this would happen this afternoon, which meant North America was seemingly out of the woods. But according to an update this morning, the satellite’s descent has slowed, and re-entry is… Read more »