Dear Major League Baseball, In order to build audience with younger fans, wouldn’t it make sense to at least have World Series games on the weekends be played in the daylight? Last night’s game started at 7:00pm Central Time and ended four hours later just after 11:00pm local time. How many kids, particularly on the …
It’s a good thing I don’t have to choose based solely on which broadcasting team I dislike most, what with Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit doing Wisconsin – Michigan State and Joe Buck and Tim McCarver doing Game Three of the World Series. It would be a coin flip.
Which Senator said this yesterday upon learning of Qaddafi’s death? There is a lot of money to be made in the future in Libya. Lot of oil to be produced. You’d think that would be one of the Senators from the oil patch, but no. It was Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. I have nothing …
Bufo marinus This guy’s cousin leapt out in front of me as I was hauling our green waste bin out to the street. I think I lost a year of my life.
(Click to enlarge) Manufacturers are also changing the look of their overall packaging to help even more. For instance, the CFL in the photo on the right says the Sylvania Super Saver CFL is a replacement for a 100 watt bulb with a lumen (brightness) output of 1500. The energy used is 24 watts, saving …
If you wondered whether the Tea Party (or one faction, anyway) has the brains bequeathed it by kumquats, doubt no more:Tea Party Nation Urges Businesses To Stop Hiring In Order To Hurt Obama Never mind that businesses aren’t hiring now, which is one of the major problems facing the country. By golly, this small-business-owning lady …
For those who don’t know, he’s a former war correspondent for the NYT and other media outlets.
Coaching in the NFL is a difficult and all-consuming job. It’s five to six days of work all week, followed by a three-hour period of intensity and anxiety on Sunday or Monday. But who the hell expected it to be physically dangerous? New Orleans coach Sean Payton had surgery to repair a torn meniscus and …
No less than four of the Republican candidates for their party’s nomination to the Presidency of the United States claim they were called by God to run for the job. Four! Perry, Santorum, Bachmann and Cain have all claimed God as their ultimate political consultant. Fred Clark at Slacktivist says: Several explanations suggest themselves for …
Elites Bad, People Good. In dozens of cities around the world on Saturday, people took to the streets, clutching placards and chanting slogans as part of a planned day of protests against the financial system. [snip] In other European cities, including Berlin and London, the demonstrations were largely peaceful, with thousands of people marching past …