I hate the cable company. It has taken me forever to get a appointment to have my cable installed. So the other day when my appointment was up I was a few minutes late and missed the guy. Today I took work off to be here and he can’t make it! UGH!
When he has this to say in his latest movie review: Like most heterosexual American males not yet receiving Social Security, I happen to believe that Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” is the finest driving song ever recorded, and further, that you cannot both love America and hate that song. That doesn’t sound like Crunchy [...]
The Youngston Vindicator lays out the case against Congressional candidate Tim Ryan in plain terms: Blind leading the blind. The Vindicator lays it on the line: If qualifications were the criteria for holding public office, an objective analysis of all three candidates would have Womer Benjamin, of Aurora, winning with no difficulty. Ryan’s legislative record [...]
My Bootleg Sports NFL Journal column is up. I post it here for your reading enjoyment: Since all of you are loyal Bootleg readers I am going to let you in on a little secret. In coordination with a secret government hospital and the National Football League I have been participating in an ongoing round [...]
. There are some great songs on this album. I highly recommend it. Here is an example: Hills of Morning Underneath the mask of the sulphur sky A bunch of us were busy waiting, Watching the people looking ill-at-ease, Watching the fraying rope get closer to breaking Women and men moved back and forth In [...]
Well, it looks like I am going to expereince my first loss in fantasy football. My opponent had Priest Holmes and Tony Gonzalez who both lit it up for Kansas . City, scoring 4 TDS. I could have matched him but I chose Jimmy Smith instead of Stacy Mack (who had 3 touchdowns and is [...]
CFL A look at this weekend’s College Football Scoreboard we find that I was 2-1 on my predictions. Michigan got their offense going and protected the football – they win big. Ohio State easily took care of Indiana as well, but Penn State couldn’t quite come back on Iowa losing in OT. Ryder Cup The [...]
For those of you who might have missed the link by Instapunidt, there is a scathing review of Pat Buchanan and his newly launched magazine The American Conservative up over at Tech Central Station. Standing Pat by Nick Schultz captures Pat and his unwillingness to see that his particual nostalgic bitter and self-indulgent brand of [...]
This is your last chance to participate in this months Free Books for Bloggers (kinda) contest. So if you want to receive a free book (on the condition that you post a review) let me know by Sunday. On Monday I will anounce the winner.
Jacob Weisberg captures my feelings remarkably well in his post in Slate’s Should the U.S. Invade Iraq? dialogue. Here is the key section: The notion that we could deal with the Saddam problem through a version of containment was always folly. Saddam resumed his genocidal policies against the Kurds and Shiites and his efforts to [...]