This Tuesday, less than three-quarters of a mile from my front door, employees of Hartford Distributors, Inc., their friends and family, emergency vehicles and personnel, and members of the press gathered at Manchester High School, on the lawn and parking lot, and across the street, because some three miles away from my front door, a man had opened fire on… Read more »
One minute some court says we all have to marry gay people (or something like that), and the next minute the sky opens up with massive thunderstorms! Coincidence, or GOD’S PUNISHMENT? We report, you decide.
As a Trojan, I generally have no particular interest in revisiting December 2, 2006 more often than necessary. It is truly a date which will live in infamy. ESPN ranks it #42 on the all-time list of most painful college football losses, but for me personally, it’s #1, trailing only a certain basketball game on my all-sports list of most… Read more »
Via Kevin Drum, a perfectly depressing Financial Times article about the “crisis in middle-class America,” culminating in this key passage: What, then, is the future of the American Dream? Michael Spence, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, whom the World Bank commissioned to lead a four-year study into the future of global growth, admits to a sense of foreboding. Like a growing… Read more »
As you’ll undoubtedly notice, I’ve made some major blog layout changes. I’m not in love with the return of the three-column layout, but I’ve concluded it’s a necessary evil, so that I can keep tweets on the homepage — thus keeping the site fresh when I’m not blogging much — while preventing them from overrunning the main body of the… Read more »
Heh.
Clearly, based on the picture below, taken at Pac-10 media day, we can see how the new divisons are going to shake out (with Colorado and Utah split between the two): Division A: Arizona, ASU, Cal, Oregon, Oregon State Division B: Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State What do you mean, it’s insane to base my conclusions on this completely… Read more »
An article in the Denver Post today mentions comments from Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe indicating that Colorado will depart after this year and join the Pac-10 in 2011 rather than 2012. I’ve gotta admit, the Pac-12 starting in 2012 had a nice symmetry to it, but it’s probably better for all involved that it happen sooner rather than later.
Here is a collection of several video clips (taken with an iPhone 4 wedged against the windshield) of our drive Saturday up and down the white-knuckle Mount Evans Road, which climbs to 14,130 feet. The “soundtrack” is the music that we were playing on our car stereo, mostly an assortment of patriotic songs (with a dash of Billy Joel thrown… Read more »
Not me, Kevin Williamson: Man, I miss the fiscal discipline of the Bush era! Gulp. I never expected to write those words. The Bush-era Republicans were out-of-control big spenders, fiending for appropriations, handing out largesse, creating giant new health-care entitlements here, building nations there, all with a devil-may-care attitude about where the money would come from. They were all carrot… Read more »