Stanford? Memphis? MERCED???? Stanford over New Mexico, sure. Memphis over George Washington U, fine. But I doubt that even Merced alums picked their team to beat Duke. My consolation is that I’m still better than 97.7 of everybody else who submitted a bracket to ESPN. I heard that of the 11 million brackets submitted to …
Dayton? Texas? North Dakota State? I should have known better than to pick Arizona State. Those blasted Sun Devils have plagued me since my days at the U of Arizona. Ah well, we’ll see if I do any better tomorrow, although three down ain’t too shabby, I’m thinking.
Back a few years when Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was a fresh new face on the scene he was thought to be a really bright guy, a comer, a pol on the rise in the Republican ranks. Since then he’s presented a State of the Union response which was universally panned. He’s generally been a …
Bill Kristol has a yen for more blood; Iraq’s butcher’s bill wasn’t big enough for him. Charlie Pierce has some choice words for the miserable so-and-so. You fought the battle of the Green Rooms and the think tanks while other people’s sons and daughters died for your fantasy of how the world would work if …
Namely, that it can be just as backward as any of those former Confederate states back South and East, by golly. Wyoming is the first state to block a new set of national science standards, but a week after Gov. Matt Mead signed off on the change, education advocates are still digesting what the action …
Anybody want to join a group and play along with the tournament? I set one up for my Dodgers fan commenters at Elysian Fields, the Dodgers blog I run. Go over there to find the right link to get you in.
I swear there must be thousands of these things thrown against walls every day. Mom’s has a mute button which seems to have gotten off-center from its spring inside the case. If you press it you run the risk of not getting your sound back without a fair degree of fussing and cussing. I don’t …
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Ron Brownstein of National Journal has an article examining the political splits and factions in the state where I spent some college time. It’s not real scintillating: “demographics favor Democrats if they can mobilize Latinos; Republicans skew older and whiter.” In other words, the same kind of thing we’ve been reading since Obama was first …
Woohoo! Two books into the Liaden Universe (Agent of Change and Conflict of Honors) and I’m glad I bought them. There’s a sense of fun in them that is often missing from space opera, convulsed as it is with BIG THEMES and WORLDS IN THE BALANCE. I’m now starting Carpe Diem. Back to Val Con …
It is extraordinarily bizarre that an airplane could just disappear, but Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 isn’t the first to do so. Time magazine has enumerated six others from history. There’s Air France 447, the one many newscasters have mentioned as a parallel situation when discussing speculating about what might have happened to Flight MH370. There’s …