In case you missed it live Saturday (I did)… Mandatory snarky comment: Man, look at those amazing SEC defenses!!! It’s a WAR!!! But seriously, Cam Newton is a rather good football player.
Is there a solution to the Higher Education Bubble? Do journalism graduates going into a dying industry have any chance of paying off six figures’ worth of student loan debt? Is there any escaping the Liberal Thought Police that ensnared Juan Williams, or the Conservative Outrage Machine that wants to defund NPR? Will the Democrats do better than expected in… Read more »
South Park aired a parody of Inception last night. I haven’t seen the whole episode yet, but based on this clip, it looks like I should:
In the course of introducing a Politico story reporting that GOP insiders say Sarah Palin isn’t making any friends on the midterm-election campaign trail with her erratic and unprofessional behavior, Jonathan Chait gives a rather hilarious summation of his take, prior to digesting this new piece of information, on a potential Palin presidential run: I’ve been assuming for a while… Read more »
Almost forgot to do these in time for tonights game, but made it in under the deadline. The big news of the day was the Pac-12 division announcements. If I include Utah at 2 and Colorado at 11 here’s how the two divisions would rank: North: Oregon – 1 Stanford – 3 Washington – 6 OSU – 7 Cal –… Read more »
So, as I may have mentioned once or twice, I am a bit of a comic book nerd. And, like many of my ilk, I have a special spot in my heart for Superman, even though I would never place him in my top ten favorite characters. I just love the idea of him; he’s someone who uses his power… Read more »
Here’s the tail end of Michael Bennet’s speech last night in Denver, and the beginning of Bill Clinton’s: Although it perhaps defies convention, the Dems were very smart to have Bennet — the actual candidate — go before Clinton. If Bubba had spoken first, his lengthy stemwinder of a speech would have been an impossible act for the not terribly… Read more »
A day late, but hopefully not a dollar short, here is Becky’s and my latest LRT podcast episode. Our main topic is the Colorado governor’s race and the extremism of Tom “Impeach Obama and Bomb Mecca” Tancredo, although our discussion includes some haphazard transitions back and forth between that gubernatorial race and… British fiscal policy! (Hence the title.) Also covered:… Read more »