Tuesday, November 6, 2012

2012 Log

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11:16 - Champagne popped.  G'night. 11:13 - Ohio.  Over.  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11:10 - NBC has called Iowa.  Nevada and Oregon will be...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

GOP debate

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Actually watched the GOP debate last night (although I had to do so on my computer, as Comcast Boston has decided that MSNBC doesn't nee...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Do-nothingness

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You'd be hard pressed to find a single quote that better encompasses the do-nothingness that is the US Senate than this one, from Kent C...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Hippo-crit

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As one who has previously railed against the Idiot Tax that is the state lottery, I very sheepishly report that I actually bought a lotto t...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Spin it like a record

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While I was originally upset by this Gallup poll and its accompanying headline, "Four in 10 Americans Believe in Strict Creationism,...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Is Joe Biden dead?

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I know that Biden hasn't been as high profile a VP as, say, Cheney.  But he has been non-existent during the past month.  You think he...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Go UNH

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UNH overcame a sloppy second quarter to pound down B-CU in their first game of the I-AA playoffs.  I was able to watch on NCAA.com, and it w...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Calvin & Hobbes

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One of my favorite gags in the old Calvin and Hobbes strips was when Calvin would ask his dad a question, and if the dad didn't know the...

Hard not to be depressed

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about where this country is headed.  We're currently having two debates in Washington about how horrible our deficit is, and thus we nee...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Wait, which party is he the head of?

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So today I read two things: 1) Obama calls for a pay freeze for public sector employees. 2) Democrats are likely to budge on letting the B...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Who is this man?

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In the realm of sports, think of someone famous, someone everyone who follows sports has heard of, who you have no idea what he looks like....
Monday, November 22, 2010

I love airlines

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While booking some tickets, saw this: Note: An infant who turns 2 before or during travel requires a child's fare. What if you're o...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

History happened here

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Winter is a time that many brewers decide to put out a seasonal mix of beers.  Saranac, for example, used to have the 12 Beers of Christmas,...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Line of the day

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Votemaster wraps up his 2010 coverage with a summary of what we're looking at in 2012.  In speaking about what Republicans could do to ...
Friday, November 5, 2010

Glimmer of hope

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From today's NYT : Representative John Mica of Florida, the senior Republican in line to take the reins of the House Transportation Com...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

What you need is a good bleeding!

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A few thoughts from last night's results: 1) Very surprised that the House and Senate were so different.  Looks like the Dems will only...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Fun with numbers

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Last night, while listening to Tim McCarver drone on and on about something that eventually go to Joe Dimaggio's hitting streak, I wonde...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Good Idea of the Day

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I've never done a football suicide pool, but they seem fun.  The basic idea is that, each week, you pick the result of one NFL game, and...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Tax mushiness

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At some point, the Senate will decide to: a) extend all the Bush tax cuts b) extend some of the Bush tax cuts c) temporarily extend all t...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

25 is the loneliest number

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Doesn't matter who actually speaks this sentence, suffice it to say that it is a politician running for re-election: "...partnersh...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

The Deserved Bloodbath

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Today I received a Democratic National Committee survey in the mail, asking me to check off various boxes, rank issues on a scale of 1 to 10...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

[blank stare]

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How the hell do people like this get elected? 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Always darkest... before the dawn, or the lights go out completely?

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That the Democrats will lose seats in the House and Senate come November seems like a sure thing.  History says so: the incumbent presidenti...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Two for flinching

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I'm not terribly sure of the details of it, but China's one child policy isn't something I've thought particularly hard abou...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Again and again

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Controversy surrounding research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) has limitless potential to self-renew, apparently.  In a decision han...