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Rice beats University of Houston 53-47 in mayoral election
For those who didn't hear Annise Parker's victory speech and didn't look at the Wikipedia page of either candidate, Parker went to Rice, while Locke went to U of H. -
Cardinals acuire Matt Holliday
Until that trade, too many Cardinals fans worried that Brett Wallace was supposed to be a replacement for Pujols when his contract ended. Clearly, that is not going to happen now.
Part of me still worries a bit about what happened in the last major trade with Billy Beane, though. Remember Dan Haren's days in St. Louis? -
More on Sotomayor
Yesterday, I discussed a talk given by Sonia Sotomayor, our next Supreme Court Justice, and I concluded that she is both brilliant and subtle, a mind capable of parsing difficult arguments about abstract concepts. Today, I will go in the other direction and cover some of the opposition from people who likely consider themselves to be her ( Read more... ) -
A wiser Latina woman than you think
This really needs to be said. It's long, but it's a point with which everyone interested in Justice Sotomayor ought to be familiar ( Read more... ) -
#10 -- Prokofiev Violin Concerto #1 in D
Hear the Prokofiev Violin Concerto #1 in D played here by Anne Akiko Meyers.
The tenth spot was the most difficult to fill, and it could have gone to any of several worthy pieces. Prokofiev won out partly because I decided not to get too controversial this early by letting Richard Strauss onto the list. Without Strauss, though, I had a gap ( Read more... ) -
Countdown
And so, I remain a graduate student for at least one more semester (and probably more). This is good, even if it took forever for me to see my grades to confirm everything. True, the chances of actually failing out of the program were slim, but I like seeing things in writing. Not only did I not fail overall, but I managed to do well even in my ( Read more... ) -
This is why I don't like political books
After all the good things I have heard about John Allen Paulos and his book Innumeracy, why is it that when I sift through the book in the bookstore, the first thing I see is a blatant instance of terrible mathematical reasoning, violating pretty much the same rules the guy sets out to establish ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes I actually use the internet for things
I tried looking at the website for my manifolds course last Saturday to see if my exam was today, and all it said was to expect an exam this week. So, naturally, I have been doing little other than studying for the last couple of days, including an all-nighter last night leaving me with just enough left in my proverbial tank to last through class ( Read more... ) -
See, had I done my draft today instead of weeks ago
Now Rasmus is at AAA and Lackey is on the DL.
Way to ruin my Friday, John Lackey. -
BASEBALL 2008
Faster than a speeding Juan Pierre, more powerful than Ryan Howard after an offseason at the weight room, it's FANTASY BASEBALL 2008!!!
Edit: I think I mistyped my LJ-Cut
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