In a come-from-behind win last night in Pittsburgh, the Milwaukee Brewers clinched at least a .500 season. This may not seem like such a big deal, but with one more win (in two remaining games), they would have their first winning season since 1992! After that much futility, .500 is absolutely something to get excited [...]
Archive for September, 2005
The Brewers Clinch, Too!
Posted in MLB/MiLB, Sports on September 30, 2005 | Comments Off
The Damage of Grockster
Posted in Legal Issues, Media, Politics on September 30, 2005 | Comments Off
The Grokster decisions has claimed its first victim: MetaMachine, the parent of eDonkey, is NOT one of those richly-back entities the company’s president, Sam Yagan, told a Senate Judiciary committee. Yagan was a witness at the committees hearing, “Protecting Copyright and Innovation in a Post-Grokster World”, a fact finding mission for Capitol Hill to see [...]
Is Suck Profanity?
Posted in Culture on September 30, 2005 | Comments Off
This is very, very weird. Thursday’s USA Today has a terrific story about linguistics and baseball. That is, it’s about the word “suck,” as in “Yankees suck,” a popular T-shirt in Boston that Red Sox officials ask their fans to turn inside out at the ballpark. Reporter Erik Brady interviewed several linguistics and English professors, [...]
A Lender Be
Posted in General on September 30, 2005 | Comments Off
Shakespeare’s Sister just got laid off. Go over and help out if you can. And if you are in the Chicagoland area, including Lake and Porter counties in IN, and know of someone hiring, drop her a line. Thanks.
Judge Orders Torture Photos Released
Posted in Iraq, Legal Issues, Politics, Terrorism on September 30, 2005 | Comments Off
This is a good thing, in the long run: A federal judge Thursday ordered the release of dozens more pictures of prisoners being abused at Abu Ghraib, rejecting government arguments that the images would provoke terrorists and incite violence against U.S. troops in Iraq. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said that terrorists “do not [...]
White Sox Win the Central!
Posted in MLB/MiLB, Sports on September 29, 2005 | Comments Off
My grandfather died without seeing the Sox win a World Series. Here’s hoping that this is the year that saves my father from the same fate.
Things The Government Does Well
Posted in Economics, Health, Politics on September 29, 2005 | Comments Off
Ezra Klein points out that healthcare is one of them: I can take issue with her single factual claim. Medicaid is not fiscally profligate. Indeed, they’re quite a bit cheaper than private insurers, provide more bang for the lower buck, and would be the choice of any low-income patient who doesn’t like the thought of [...]
How to E-Mail Your Professor if Your Professor's Kind of a Dick
Posted in Culture, Education, General, Writing on September 29, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Michael Leddy is a real live Professor with a capital P at (apparently) Eastern Illinois State U., and oh so pleased about it. What he is not pleased about is his students e-mailing him in “inappropriate” ways. To re-gruntle himself he has written a set of guidelines for students to use in e-mailing their professors. [...]
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Posted in Politics on September 29, 2005 | Comments Off
It seems that Blunt, the new GOP Majority Leader is cut from the same corrupt clothe as DeLay. I don’t get this, I really don’t. It makes no sense to give the press a ready made narrative like this. Is there no one in the GOP caucus that can project an image of honesty and [...]
Not a Post-Racism Society: Bennet, Blacksand Crime
Posted in Culture, Politics on September 29, 2005 | Comments Off
Bill Bennett, long the primary moral philosopher of the said something horrible on his syndicated radio show: CALLER: Well, I don’t think that statistic is accurate. BENNETT: Well, I don’t think it is either, I don’t think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don’t know. But I [...]
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