That means it’s time for me to mention Fanblogs again. It’s a good site for all your college football news, conveniently sorted by conference (if you know what conference your favorite school is in this season). Here’s their take on Week One of the season. They were off by a degree or two in their …
Whaddya gonna do? Are you going to double down on the lies your ads have been telling about the President’s relaxation of some welfare-to-work requirements at the request of Republican governors, or are you going to mush up those claims back to some semblance of plausible deniability? If you were gutsy, you’d say you and …
A while back I was asked if I’d take a 20-minute online survey from The Atlantic with the promise of a $25 Amazon gift card for completing the thing. Being a hard-core bibliophile, I agreed. Well. The other day I got the gift card in the Email and used it. Today the books arrived. Wanting …
During political campaigns I’ve often heard one side imply that his or her opponent’s spin is an out-and-out lie, but when his own side does it it’s just a different way of looking at things. It’s a silly argument, but nobody really believes it anyway, so there’s not much harm done. This is something completely …
I’m a single-car person again. Got about what I expected on a good day, not what we asked.
I’m sitting around awaiting several different potential buyers for my ’97 Geo. The Kelley Blue Book value for one that old in fair condition is $2,400, which seems a little high to me. I’m asking for $1,200 but being realistic.
The taciturn commander of Apollo 11 died today at the age of 82. In his honor, here’s Gahan Wilson’s satiric tribute to Armstrong’s first step onto the surface of the moon in 1969. The moon landing is one of those images I’d swear I saw, even though I know I didn’t. We lived on Guam …
I have no idea whether the claim the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency makes that it has physical evidence that Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs is true or not. Given the agency’s reluctance to show its cards, particularly now that Armstrong has said he won’t contest the charges, I don’t necessarily trust it. I find myself sympathizing …
We went to lunch at the restaurant attached to the Bishop Museum, meeting some old friends there. But first we wandered around the exhibits, including Hawaiian Hall and the newly-on-display kahili and portraits in the Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kahili Room. What are kahili, you ask? They’re the feather standards (as in royal devices or flags) …
The Republican Party national platform includes language supportive of Arizona’s “Papers Please” immigration law. Even better, it exhorts the Federal Department of Justice to stop suing states with immigration laws similar to Arizona’s. The official party position now reads that “State efforts to reduce illegal immigration must be encouraged, not attacked,” and says the Department …