Saints at Seahawks: The Seahawks have never won a Super Bowl, appearing once. The Saints have won one. I can’t pick. Colts at Patriots: The Colts have won one Super Bowl since they moved to Indianpolis. The Patriots have won three. I’m kinda leaning toward the Colts just because of their rookie QB Andrew Luck, …
Over at Balloon Juice Anne Laurie collects some tweets and posts drawing interesting comparisons between Governor Christie’s behavior with his bridge troubles and a certain President of 40 years ago. What’s particularly interesting is The Wire’s David Simon’s view of Christie’s behavior. If Mr. Christie didn’t order this mayhem himself, then he knew because the …
Headline: Report: Most members of Congress are millionaires Senators generally are better off than House members, with an average net worth of $2.7 million in the Senate compared with $896,000 in the House. No wonder they save their empathy for the 1% crowd. If I felt like being fair I’d point out that the story …
They didn’t elect enough players, but then some of the baseball writers who have votes are troglodytes willing to accept rumor as basis enough to avoid voting for worthy individuals. The Hall of Fame really needs to weed out some of its voters and bring in some newer ones. The world of sportswriting has changed; …
Serendipity took me into the used bookstore today. It’s one floor up at the mall from a satellite post office where I’d gone to mail a couple of letters that were too heavy for ordinary stamps. I’m wandering up and down the aisle in the SF section and what do I see but “Shadow of …
We spent the morning removing ornaments and lights and taking the tree down. Now I need either a chain saw or an itinerant saw sharpener for one of my rusty implements, because the six-foot remains need to fit into my four-foot green waste recycling bin. Don’t think we’re done though. We got two rooms de-holidayed, …
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I left the house when the Chiefs – Colts game was at halftime with the Chiefs up 31 – 10. I thought the game was over. I flipped the car radio to the station it was on, though, so as I was out and about I heard most of the comeback. It seemed like every …
The Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl are both being played on January 3rd? For about a thousand years New Year’s Day had the Cotton, the Rose, the Sugar and the Orange bowls. Now they string them out, which is nice for the casual TV fan, I guess, but sort of bollixes up tradition. Not …
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I’m rooting for Oklahoma. I have two reasons: one, my Dad graduated from OU back in the early 1940s, and two, I’m so tired of Alabama and the SEC I could spit. Neither of those may be particularly rational reasons, but they’re good enough for me.