It's entertaining to "watch" the Women's Weightlifting on the web. It's very interesting to watch the different strategies play out as lifters decide to either play it safe or push themselves right from the start. Also, since the nature of the sport seems to be that there are 4 to 6 top contenders, and then everybody else. So you get some heated ( Read more... )

In the 2004 Baseball American League Championship Series, the Boston Red Sox came back from being down 3 games to none to win the best of seven series against the New York Yankees. They did this The Red Sox then went on to win their first World Series since 1918 ( Read more... )

Ole & Sven had enjoyed quite an evening at the Sons of Norway lodge in Poulsbo. So much so that they managed to miss the last ferry run from Bremerton to Seattle. Through their akevitt induced haze they manage to hitch a ride with a truck down Primary State Route 14 heading toward Tacoma ( Read more... )

1. If you're going the opposite direction as the standard commute (i.e. west in the morning or east in the evening), don't think that you have it all over those suckers stuck in traffic going the other way. The New Jersey State Patrol is waiting for you ( Read more... )

Reading about SOPA & PIPA reminded me of my time at Boy's State in high school. I ended up a lobbyist. My first bill was a very basic one, merely establishing that a "town"'s laws would apply within the "town"'s boundaries (essentially an equivalent of the U.S. Bill Of Rights' tenth amendment). I developed a bill which was exceedingly explicit, ( Read more... )

That any recording artist captured the essence of romance in the 1980s quite like Karen Finley did.

Except, perhaps, Laurie Anderson.

UNIVERSE: Hey, Russ! I have a deal for you. I'd like to give you 20 million dollars ( Read more... )

It was the summer of 1988.I'd just completed my junior year of college at a small liberal arts college in Helena, Montana. That spring I'd discovered the field of statistics and decided that was going to be my major. Since the aforementioned college did not offer a degree in statistics (or a Bachelors of Science in anything) I decided to take ( Read more... )

The phrase in the subject is one of my favorites. And one of the places you see this played out in a quintessential manner is in American football. My hypothesis is that this is more evident in American football than in other sports is because of the structure of the game. Much like a turn based strategy game, it's much easier to actually have a ( Read more... )

So the man who was the driving force behind an event that has largely driven the story of the last decade. I'd love to be happy about this, but it's about 9 years too late for that. I'm largely just relieved. Hopefully we can now focus more on returning America to the beacon it should be.