What a glorious football weekend! First the Michigan Wolverines stage one of the greatest comebacks in their illustrious history, then the next day the Steelers beat the defending Super Bowl Champions and end their 21 game win streak in dominating fashion. Rookie quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is playing awesome. Plaxico Burress is finally looking like the [...]
What is life like in a crucial battleground state like Ohio? It means your mailbox is stuffed with campaign flyers to the tune of four or five a day. It means phone calls from the BC campaign, from the state and local party, and from celebrities on behalf of the above. I have been getting [...]
I didn’t study philosophy, but I’ve read a bit about it, and enjoy a nice philosophical debate. One of the best places to get into debates, or — for the more genteel among us — conversations, is at Carnival of the Capitalists.
I just watched won of the most exciting comeback of my life. The Michigan Wolverines came from 17 down with less than 9 minutes to go to beat Michigan State 45-37 in overtime. It was a nerve wracking game. For the first three quarters Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr seemed to have freshmen QB Chad [...]
Just got back from the Bush Rally at Nationwide Arena here in Columbus Ohio. It is hard to know what to make of these type of things, but the crowd was pumped. If filing a 20,000 plus arena full of screaming supporters who give you a full 10 minute standing ovation means something then I [...]
David Hogberg had a rather scathing critique of Ohio Republicans yesterday at NRO. Hogberg basically blames the Ohio GOP for the lackluster economy and thus for the potential Bush loss in the critical battleground state. The main culprit is the RINO (Republican In Name Only) Bob Taft. Taft and the GOP controlled legislature were unable [...]
Since I am unable to blog much these days, I thought it might be fun to throw a question out to the ‘sphere – assuming anyone is listening. So here it is. Please respond with a comment or trackback or whatever. Graham Greene and John LeCare may be great writers but they were fundamentally wrong [...]
Great article over at The New Republic by editor-in-chief Martin Peretz entitled QUESTIONS FOR JOHN KERRY. Us and Them. Please read the whole thing but here are a few choice quotes: How would John Kerry have dealt with Saddam? He has told us Saddam needed to be “confronted.” But the word itself–which implies that the [...]
OK, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but I am glad to report that the University of Michigan and Ohio State have decided not to sell the rights to their annual clash: Forgoing more than $1 million, Michigan and Ohio State on Wednesday walked away from a deal that would have renamed their annual [...]
Apparently a bad diet and a desk job is not the ideal preparation for indoor soccer. My indoor season stated tonight and I was a little rusty to say the least. We played a team composed of mostly Guatemalans and they were fast and coordinated. We, on the other hand, were not. We didn’t take [...]