This whole idea that John McCain's POW experience qualifies him as a better man and a better president seems completely dubious to me. Sure, as a young man, McCain heroically refused to be released early from his Hanoi imprisonment because he refused to be a pawn to the Viet Kong. That was courageous and that deserves a great deal of merit. But ( Read more... )

Anybody know the difference between snack mix and party mix? Is it that party mix is unsafe for consumption when you are alone, like alcohol?

I'm eating snack mix now... At least, that's what I'm told it is...

I tried joining a club... A Scrabble club. They meet on Saturdays at the Borders near my apartment and on Mondays at Cup O' Joes in Grandview... So far the people are interesting and the games are very challenging. My record within the group is 1-3. I'm realizing that I need to study my TWL two-letter words so I can quit hesitating when it's ( Read more... )

Think of a well-known person on TV who has eight letters in their first name and four letters in their last. The last name consists of ( Read more... )

Gordon Gee wrote me back. A younger me would have replied with a big long e-mail outlining point by point just how incredibly assinine this is....

Gee, Gordon

Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:45 PM

To:
Jon Shecket

Cc:
"Kaplan, Jeff" , "Smith, Gene"

Dear Jon,

Thanks for your thoughtful note.  Not having thought about your point, I
do ( Read more... )

I am listening to / ripping Victor Manuelle's album Decision Uniname. I picked it up from the library... The 6th track, Nunca Habia Llorado Asi, has received a lot of airplay on the latin radio over the past year, and only now did I bother to look up the lyrics. I'm impressed that a song about heartbreak, literally "crying drop by drop tears of ( Read more... )

Gordon Gee in today's Columbus Dispatch:

Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee calls the issue of a college football playoff his Maginot Line -- a final, heels-in-the-dirt resistance to what he views as the ruination of the sport ( Read more... )

I'm watching a preview of Man U. / West Ham over p2p. They were playing DJ Otzi's verison of Country Roads over the PA system at Old Trafford and they were all singing along. My question for Man U. supporters is this: do you really want to go to West Virginia? I say watch what you wish for.

Every now and then I watch the news on CCTV9. That my brother is in China is part of it, but I also enjoy seeing if I can spot the Chinese-controlled media's reporting bias. During the torch relay, it is very easy to see. Every story seems to be about where the torch is at the moment, and they always interview Chinese students who are at the ( Read more... )

These are the ones I can remember:

1. Nobody should be intimidated by Heather Mills. She puts her legs on one at a time.
2. Behind every great man is a great woman... She's one hell of a divorce lawyer.
3. Only you can prevent forest fires... Perhaps if we covered our forests with asbestos, we could prevent them too ( Read more... )