Hey everybody, I was looking for an opportunity to have an interesting [and civil] discussion.  This is the only place I know where to go where I can reach people who will disagree with me.  However, being the internet, I expect it to get ugly quickly and somebody will call somebody else Hitler and well, that's just how it goes, I guess.  Also, I ( Read more... )

Hey.  I wrote this and it got posted on the newspaper website.  Take a read if you like.

I had one last week, too, but I forgot to post.

http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1993101070593169&ShowArticle_ID=11011203083209753

This is #4!

Anybody recognize the by line on this article?

Last week was dubbed "The Worst Week in the History of Sports" due to scandals hitting the NBA (Tim Donaghy and his points shaving), the NFL (Mike Vick and his dog fighting), MLB (Barry Bonds approaching Hank Aaron's record), Cycling (more doping scandals in the Tour de France), NCAA Football (one of UCLA's coaches getting arrested for burglary), ( Read more... )

There is a writer on Slate.com that is blogging the Bible. It's really a fascinating idea, where he reads, asks questions to the Slate readership and discusses the sorts of things (some of the time) that people would ask about the book. I don't know if book should be capitalized in that sense, but I don't think it is and I don't mean to be ( Read more... )

This can also be read more coherently together at killerserials.blogspot.com.

( Episode 3 )

I try to stay up on various opinions writers. You know how kids in high school jazz band sit around and talk about Miles Davis? It's like that for me, except I don't have anybody to talk to about how awesome David Broder is. I check out the Washington Post, Orlando Sentinel, Miami Herald and sometimes a few others. I stay away from the NY Times ( Read more... )

The Post ran an guest column today about passing the Equal Rights Amendment/Women's Equality Amendment. I know there are people on my friends list from varying political points of view, so I'd like to take advantage of that to figure this out a little bit better. Obviously, I'm not trying to be confrontational about it, but I do have some ( Read more... )

I was offered space for a final column a few days ago, as a generous offer from my editor to say goodbye to the paper and the campus that has been my home for the past two years or so. I said ok before a college student decided to make diabolical history on the campus of Virginia Tech, before the Hokies went from a hated sports rival to people ( Read more... )