The Sox just beat Minnesota 1-0 to win the Central and advance to the playoffs. It was an exciting game, with a great defensive play by Griffey in center to preserve a tie, a monstrous home run to take the lead, eight innings of stellar pitching by a young pitcher on short rest for the [...]
Archive for September, 2008
A White Sox Winner
Posted in General, MLB/MiLB, Sports on September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How Did We Get Here?
Posted in Economics, Politics on September 30, 2008 | Comments Off
This is an excellent read from The American Prospect on just how we got into the financial mess we’re in today. It’s from an explicitly liberal magazine, but it’s very well argued, I think, and goes into a lot of detail. The kicker? It was published over a year ago.
Welcome to Banned Books Presidential Campaign Week
Posted in Books, Church & State, Culture, Education, Evidence of Harm, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Privacy, Religion, School on September 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yes, it’s Banned Books Week again – time to mourn, and to celebrate. It’s especially poignant that this year, Banned Books Week coincides with the date of the Vice Presidential Debate for Campaign 2008, one of whose participants, as almost her first act in elected office, tried to ban books in her city library. The [...]
Quote of the Day, 2008-09-29
Posted in Humor, News & Current Events, Politics on September 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), responding to the allegation by John Boehner (R-OH) that they had “at least a dozen more votes” for the failed financial rescue bill before Pelosi’s speech: “Give me those 12 peoples’ names and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and maybe they’ll think about the country,” Frank said, eliciting [...]
Wait, what?
Posted in MLB/MiLB, Sports on September 28, 2008 | Comments Off
You mean there’s this thing called a “post” season? I had no idea… Now what? Other than I have to pee my pants now. (If you’ve never been to the pee site, be sure to hover your mouse over the little Brewer guy next to the pledge box.)
Google Chooses Not to Be Evil
Posted in Bloggin, Culture, General, Legal Issues, News & Current Events, Politics, Privacy, Religion, Technology on September 27, 2008 | 16 Comments »
From Google’s company blog: Our position on California’s No on 8 campaign As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions — Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and [...]
What Debate?
Posted in MLB/MiLB, Sports on September 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I was following more important matters.
A Little Worried, and Open Debate Thread
Posted in Politics on September 26, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I must confess to being a little bit worried about the debate tonight. It’s not that I expect McCain to win, or even to do particularly well (I don’t). It’s just that with the way he’s run his campaign over the last couple of weeks, anything short of a complete disaster in tonight’s debate is [...]
Losing the Base
Posted in Flame Bait, Politics on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The National Review’s Kathleen Parker on The Palin Problem: Palin’s narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain’s running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood — a refreshing feminist of a [...]
Pollsters and Weighting
Posted in General on September 26, 2008 | Comments Off
Nate Silver of 538 has a very interesting interview with a highly regarded pollster about what goes into poll weighting. Definitely worth the read if you are interested in the polling process.
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