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In a sometimes-annual tradition, JR Radcliffe and I are posting our 2009 baseball predictions so we, and you, can look at them in October and laugh about how wrong we were. I pored over my projections for hours and hours, utilizing mounds of data, insight and historical comparisons; JR wrote his in five minutes and [...]
Just caught Mr. Baseball on HBO in my hotel room. Curious what you all think about the international sociological issues presented in the movie. I thought Schepisi was clearly aiming for a movie about the difficulties of assimilation (as he also did with Iceman), which he nailed, but I’m left wondering if Jack experienced re-entry [...]
As I’m sure you’ll notice, I’ve changed the design of my blog. I’m still tweaking a few things, but I think this is prettier. Bear with me as I work on it a little bit more. And bear with me as I post three times a month for the next year.
I’m working [...]
Interesting article recently from Salon.com about Obama’s economic policy. The author describes the policy and — surprisingly — conservative in some ways, but revolutionary in others.
I use Google Analytics to track traffic and other such things on my site. It’s a great free tool that gives an incredible amount of data, and I highly recommend it to anyone with a blog or website.
One of the tools it offers is the ability to see what search terms people enter into Google that lead them to your site. Periodically, I like to review these, since it gives me an idea of why strangers land on my website.
Yesterday, I deleted 118 Facebook friends. Initially, I set out to delete only the people with whom I had no contact. After an initial sweep of about 40 people, I kept paring the list down further and further. I knocked off another 30 or so after the first sweep. Then another 15 or so. Eventually, [...]
Yesterday, I watched Stephen Colbert make fun of the $50 million in stimulus money that is being allocated for funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.
In typical Colbert fashion, he joked about how arts don’t help anything or anyone and how Congress could find better use for the money. He moved on and I [...]
Republicans have released their list of what they deem as “wasteful” spending in the near-$900 billion stimulus bill that is working its way through Congress.
All totaled, the waste list roughly adds up to about $25 billion or so.
I’ll freely admit that a lot of the projects listed in here seem frivolous, like giving $850 million [...]
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