Amazing game last night as the Louisville Cardinels took it to Oklahoma and are moving on to the national championship game. Angel McCoughtry came back after a dismal first half and scored 14 of her 18 points in the second frame as she helped her team put away the Sooners. Now they have the dubious [...]
I’m not talking about JordanCornblog being # 1 in the men’s bracket this morning. While that’s true, to point it out would be unseemly.
No, I am talking about Cynthia who is perfect on the women’s side and ranks among the #1 scorers anywhere and EVERYWHERE this morning! (Right at the moment, the calculations on the [...]
So have you made your picks yet? Sign up here for the men’s bracket and here for the women’s. Click the link and then click “Join this group.” You need to be logged in to your NY Times account for it to work. If you have problems, post a comment and I’ll try to help. [...]
The Men’s bracket is up and some folks (you know who you are) have already made their picks. The women’s bracket will be finalized this evening. Then we have a couple of days to get everything set before the games are off and running. I’m using the NYTimes Brackets this year – we’ll see how [...]
Today’s the day that the Philadelphia Eagles take their next step toward their first Superbowl win!
How’s them apples? Cocky, eh? Well, as I see it the Eagles are poised to join the Phillies with a championship … and Philly is poised to join Boston as a recent multi-championship town. Won’t that be something, the Biddles [...]
There’s a very interesting article posted on Christmas Eve in the NY Times about Elizabeth Alexander — the poet who’ll be reading at Obama’s Inauguration.
But for now, here is Elizabeth Alexander reading Ars Poetica #92:
… and here is a reading by aichlee of the venus hottentot by Ms. Alexander. The reading by aichlee reminds me [...]
Continue reading about Elizabeth Alexander’s Poetry – on a Sleety Saturday
I read yesterday in the NY Times that Caroline Kennedy is declining to disclose some pretty basic information, pursuant to her pursuit of the NY Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. I can understand her reticence, from a personal preference point of view – but then I haven’t asked a Governor to nominate me to [...]
Continue reading about JordanCornblog Quashes Rumors of a Senate Run
Caroline Kennedy is beginning to articulate some of her positions, as noted in this article from the NY Times. While I like what I know of her, and am in agreement with her stated positions, I do find this run somewhat puzzling after a lifetime of pretty adamant privacy. She comes across as much more [...]
This is pretty old news, but it’s the first chance I’ve had to read a bit of the inside scoop on Hillary as Secretary of State. Meanwhile, speculation about Biden’s role (or lack thereof, to date) appears in the NY Times. It’s never simple, is it? I am struck by how thoroughly politics is [...]
Continue reading about Morning Updates (Including, but Not Limited to, Ann Coulter’s Jaw)
First and foremost, it’s the 25th anniversary of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund – an amazing organization that has had a huge impact on the lives of people in NH. (It is also one of the few investments that hasn’t tanked in recent months … so you might want to think about investing your [...]
Check this out! Great Dance-off video from Break.com. You’ve gotta watch it … really! Thanks for the tip, Alison! And for this one, too (the Whazzup guys, eight years later)!
Also, for your entertainment this Saturday morning, here’s a link to the NY Times electoral map. You can check out the current state of the contests [...]
How many base runners have the Phillies stranded now? I guess the glass-half-full perspective would be that they’re creating chances and will start cashing in eventually. (Just hope “eventually” comes within the next couple of games!) According to the NY Times the Phils are 1 for 28 with runners in scoring position — and Ryan [...]
Obama is leaving the trail, as I’m sure you’ve all read by now, to be with his seriously ill grandmother in Hawaii. His sense of proportion is admirable, and I wish him and his family well.
On a more upbeat note — my e-mail brought me this great piece from the NY Times this morning — [...]
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It really wasn’t a contest at Dodger Stadium last night … and wasn’t one at Hofstra, either.
The Phillies clinched their sixth-ever World Series berth in just five games, with a 5-1 win over the Dodgers, behind good offensive production and the strong arm of NLCS MVP Cole Hamels! I’d love to see them face the [...]
Continue reading about Phillies Clinch and McCain Continues to Tank
Yesterday was a wild one in the sports world, with lots of last-second heroics on the gridiron, and a lopsided loss for the Phillies.
On the political front, the NY Times published a profile of the inspiring individual who is apparently behind many of the spurious rumors that have circulated about Obama on the internet. Andy [...]
The Phillies pulled out a 3-2 win with a big sixth inning and so are up 1-0 over Manny and the Dodgers (a sixties Motown group that some of you may remember fondly — I certainly do). Cole Hamels looked a little shakier than I like him to, but he got the win, and I’m [...]
So, tonight’s the night. 9PM ET.
One of my concerns is that the bar has been set so low for Palin that she’ll look good if she merely manages to string together a series of complete sentences. The GOP has also laid the “groundwork” for asserting that Gwen Ifill is biased – NOT! Meanwhile, McCain has [...]
I’m going to be migrating everything from my old computer to my new one in just a wee bit … so am posting somewhat quickly now. Hopefully you’ll hear from me again. If not, you’ll know that things went badly here …
A bailout agreement has apparently been reached.
I read some excellent debate analysis [...]
Continue reading about Sunday Sundries … Before the Great Migration
