The Economist: we need more “equanimity instead of technologically inspired populist panic.” http://econ.st/hsofxD. To which I say, #PANIC!
RT @TheRealPSJ: Humanitarian Bowl wants NIU v. Nevada. http://bit.ly/hWfrEw
Atlantic hurricane season ends today. With 19 named storms, 12 hurricanes, 5 major hurricanes and an ACE of 160, it was WELL above average. But because the U.S. was largely spared, it didn’t really feel that way. Proving once again, “An active year is the year when you get hit.” And vice versa.
Irked by the reality TV star and former half-term governor of Alaska’s ridiculous self-comparison to Ronald Reagan, and culture-war dismissal of the Bush family, Scarborough keeps calm, carries on, busts out the scathing sarcasm, and strikes back:
What man or mouse with a fully functioning human brain and a résumé as thin as Palin’s would flirt with a presidential run? It makes the political biography of Barack Obama look more like Winston Churchill’s, despite the fact that the 44th president breezed into the Oval Office as little more than a glorified state senator. …
If Republicans want to embrace Palin as a cultural icon whose anti-intellectualism fulfills a base political need, then have at it. I suppose it’s cheaper than therapy.
But if the party of Ronald Reagan, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio wants to return to the White House anytime soon, it’s time that Republican leaders started standing up and speaking the truth to Palin.
Also, regarding Palin’s “blue bloods” comment, Scarborough writes: “Perhaps her anger [at the Bushes] was understandable. After all, these disconnected ‘blue bloods’ had nothing in their backgrounds that could ever make them understand ‘real America’ like a former governor from Alaska who quit in the middle of her first term and then got rich.” LOL. Ouch.
I eagerly await the denunciation of “Lamestream Scarborough” by Dan Riehl and other such blind fools.
#PANIC #CHAOS RT @College_FB: What if Auburn and Oregon both lose? http://bit.ly/gebMwh (via @MrCFB)
Related: on Soviet Twitter, time wastes YOU! RT @mattbramanti: In Soviet Russia accounting firm, time eats YOU!
Either @warbiany or The Major’s Girl, or both, has had the highest score (or tied for it) in 9 out of LRT CFB Pick ’em contest’s 12 weeks.
RT @NJ_StevePoliti: Politi: Rutgers’ Pernetti led the Big East’s charge to land TCU, keep conference relevant http://bit.ly/ijPIXZ
RT @BryanDFischer: We are all thinking this right now >> RT @ocruscblog: Really, Ken Whisenhunt? This is better than Matt Leinart? Really?
The second annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ‘em Contest is going to overtime.
“Old Gold & Black,” a.k.a. Brad Warbiany, and “The Major’s Girl” are tied for first place with 235 points, and are guaranteed to finish tied for first place with 252 points because of the contest’s rule dropping each contestant’s lowest weekly point total. (The lowest, presently-dropped weekly point total for both Warbiany and The Major’s Girl is 17 points. This weekend’s maximum available point total is 14, due to the smaller number of games. So this week is guaranteed to be both leading contestants’ lowest score, and those previously dropped 17 points will be added back into their season totals.)
Since Warbiany and The Major’s Girl will finish tied in points, the Yahoo tiebreaker for “Season Ties” is invoked. It states:
If two or more players have the same number of points on the season, here’s the system that’ll be used to break the tie is as follows:
Highest score in week 14
Highest score in week 13
Highest score in week 12
Etc., etc., back to week 1. So, in this case, what that means is, whoever gets the higher score this week, wins the contest. If they get the same score this week, The Major’s Girl wins, because she had the higher score in week 12 (they were tied in week 13).
To enter picks for all of this week’s games, predictions are due before 5pm MDT Friday.
On a related note, if anybody out there would like to announce that you are “The Major’s Girl,” please do so in comments, or e-mail me at irishtrojan [at] gmail.com. I have no idea who “The Major’s Girl” is!