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by JL Wall This past weekend I was in Minneapolis for a conference; I flew back to Chicago on Sunday morning. Sitting in the row behind me on the plane were three siblings, probably between 4 and 10. Their mother was either across the aisle or behind them; I’m not sure. I like quiet and [...]
Filed under: miscellany
This one had me going until they quoted Coach Weis saying that a day of practice should be enough preparation for USC. I can’t believe I bought the line about increasing the number of NBC’s television timeouts … I’ve actually been pretty on the ball with sniffing out the jokesters today. Nice job, BGS.
Filed under: miscellany, sports
Nothing to see here, non-Notre Dame football fans: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzbMP7pLRkA] H/T: domer.mq of Her Loyal Sons, who adds a great line: When top football recruits ask ND players, “who’s Bon Jovi?” the players respond, “I think he’s the guy that sings most of the songs that get played at the ‘Backer. Actually, I’m the guy who [...]
Filed under: miscellany, sports
No blogging today – I’m late on a deadline for a book review – but you can still find me spouting off in a couple of comboxes: discussing free trade with Daniel Larison, and Stewart v. Cramer and journalistic ethics with E.D. Kain.
Filed under: miscellany
Either American life has gotten a lot harder over the past ten years, or there’s been a massive dropoff in our ability to deal with its rigors without the help of modern technologies. Well, that or we’ve utterly lost our collective grip on what the world “necessity” means. Approximately one-fifth of us decided between 1996 [...]
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Now this will be worth keeping an eye on: Freddie DeBoer of the recently-shuttered L’Hôte; Mark Thompson of Publius Endures, Donklephant, and – at times – Upturned Earth; Scott Payne of The Moderate Voice and The Politics of Scrabble; E.D. Kain of Indiepundit; Chris Dierkes of Indistinct Union and Culture11’s Credo; Kyle Moore of Comments [...]
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His new home at The Spectator is a much-deserved honor. If you’ve not been reading him, this is the time to remedy that.
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As Conor notes over at the über-blog, blog commenting throughout the site is a big finicky for those logged in via C11 accounts. There’s no problem if you’re logged out, though, and – so far as I can tell anyway – at least some of the time the blank screen that a logged-in user will [...]
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I know it’s all in good fun, but I feel obliged to point out that these calculations of the monetary value of a Senate seat suffer from some pretty serious methodological flaws. For one thing, even if becoming a senator does in fact put one in a position to rake in a gross of somewhere [...]
Filed under: government/law, miscellany
by Nathan P. Origer I am sure that I speak on behalf of all of my co-substitute contributors, as well as John, Angela, and Jack (who is every bit as cool as the photographs that John has posted suggest!), in offering wishes for a wonderful day of thanksgiving, merriment, and time spent with those whom [...]
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