So, if take tonight's episode at face value (a decidedly risky proposition), Taub has quit and Foreman fired Thirteen. Combine this with the previews next week showing only Cameron and Chase, and the prospect is that we're back to late Season 3 territory except with Foreman in charge instead of House ( Read more... )

http://xkcd.com/557/

Not funny :(

Okay, maybe a little...

Even the Minnesota sports writers said we got screwed:

• Judd Zulgad, MinneapolisStar Tribune: "The performance by the defense, two favorable calls by officials, including a 42-yard pass interference against the Lions' Leigh Bodden that helped set up the winning field goal..."
• Jim Souhan, Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Beating the remarkably consistent ( Read more... )

So, right now the weather is punching Kalamazoo in the face. Two tornadoes, by my count, plus torrential rains and hail. Our power is out, but thanks to the battery backup for the modem (who's a good battery backup) we've got a modicum of access to the outside world. Which is great, because all the radio stations are carrying normal programming.

I'm giving for-real blogging a shot. Whether this amounts to anything or not is another question (probably not ( Read more... )

There's a good deal of hand-wringing in the media today (this is representative) about seemingly inexplicable poll outcomes in Michigan: John McCain drew strong support from those voters in Michigan dissatisfied with the Iraq War. Commentators are smugly chalking this one up to idiot Midwesterners who aren't playing with a full deck ( Read more... )

There comes a point when you have to call off an affair and go back to your spouse. I suppose that’s where I am this morning. Ron Paul’s complicity in this newsletter business is troubling, but not all that surprising. If we removed every candidate who’d been involved in something like this (associations, accidental or otherwise, with ( Read more... )

63% Bill Richardson
62% Chris Dodd
58% Barack Obama
57% Ron Paul
56% Hillary Clinton
55% Mike Gravel
55% John Edwards
53% Joe Biden
52% John McCain
52% Dennis Kucinich
46% Rudy Giuliani
43% Mitt Romney
42% Tom Tancredo
40% Mike Huckabee
37% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching QuizHmph. That quiz is written from a statist perspective; I did what I ( Read more... )

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071101&content_id=2290421&vkey=news_det&fext=.jsp&c_id=det

Mother.

Fucker.

Take note of the last item in IMDb's daily news round-up: http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-12-13/Read more... )