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Category Archives: Popular Culture
The Democrats’ Turkey Drop
Heh.
The Spirits Of England
For Halloween, some interesting history of Albion ghosts, at The Independent.
A Repeat Of Last Year?
Michigan is collapsing again. You can’t win games without a defense. The way they’re playing against Penn State, it’s not clear that they’ll even be able to beat Minnesota. They could go bowlless again. And that will be that for Rodriguez.
Spartans
Well, there go their chances for the national championship. Barring a miracle, looks like no more undefeated teams in the Big Tweleven. They could still be conference champs, though, if someone else beat tOSU, and they can recover the rest of the season. Down 37-0 in the third quarter sure won’t impress many poll voters, though, or the computers.
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, they finally scored, but missed the two-point conversion, so now it’s only 37-6. They’re coming back! And it’s only well into the fourth quarter!
The Decline And Fall
…of Halloween.
When I was a kid, Halloween was for kids. And then I grew up and didn’t care about it any more (like, when I hit my teens). But apparently, many of my generation never wanted to grow up. One more Boomer-caused societal disaster.
Space Colonies
A gallery.
A Sports Discussion With Iowahawk
For those interested in Big Televen pigskin talk, I’m publishing a chat with the inimitable Iowahawk. I am [You] (though not in the Christine O’Donnell sense].
He Obviously Doesn’t Understand This Game
Barack Obama’s Beltway Adventure.
Boy In The Well
This story seems to be “boy in the well” on steroids. It’s amazing how much press coverage it’s getting. There are going to be a lot of books coming out of it.
[Update a while later]
The president praises America and Americans:
“The tears they shed after so much time apart expressed not only their own relief, not only their own joy, but the joy of people everywhere,” Mr. Obama continued. “From the NASA team that helped design the escape vehicle to American companies that manufactured and delivered parts of the rescue drill to the American engineer who flew in from Afghanistan to operate the drill.”
It happens so rarely, I feel compelled to note, and encourage it.