The Spartans are cleaning the (#4) Badgers’ clock in the fourth quarter, 35-14. If Michigan beats (The) Ohio State University next week, everything will be coming up roses for them. Except that they may actually make it into a BCS game and let Wisconsin go to Pasadena, since Auburn is also beating Georgia.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Oops. Make that 42-14…
The Spartans are cleaning the (#4) Badgers’ clock in the fourth quarter, 35-14. If Michigan beats (The) Ohio State University next week, everything will be coming up roses for them. Except that they may actually make it into a BCS game and let Wisconsin go to Pasadena, since Auburn is also beating Georgia.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Oops. Make that 42-14…
That stupid trial is finally over. What will Greta van Susteren find to talk about now?
I don’t really care about the outcome, except I’m always glad to see that bucket of scum, Mark Geragos, lose a case. Unfortunately, he gets paid either way.
This seems a little childish on the part of some programmer in Redmond.
Can anyone be nominated as Chief Justice, or does one have to be an Associate Justice first?
Andrew Lloyd points out that Iris Chang has died, sadly, apparently by her own hand. Arafat’s death is a blessing to the world, but she will be sorely missed.
Here’s an interesting interview with Neal Stephenson over at Slashdot. My two favorite bits–first, in a discussion of the bifurcation of the writing community between those who are commercial and those who are “literary”:
Like all tricks for dividing people into two groups, this is simplistic, and needs to be taken with a grain of salt. But there is a cultural difference between these two types of writers, rooted in to whom they are accountable, and it explains what MosesJones is complaining about. Beowulf writers and Dante writers appear to have the same job, but in fact there is a quite radical difference between them—hence the odd conversation that I had with my fellow author at the writer’s conference. Because she’d never heard of me, she made the quite reasonable assumption that I was a Dante writer—one so new or obscure that she’d never seen me mentioned in a journal of literary criticism, and never bumped into me at a conference. Therefore, I couldn’t be making any money at it. Therefore, I was most likely teaching somewhere. All perfectly logical. In order to set her straight, I had to let her know that the reason she’d never heard of me was because I was famous.
But this part, about his relationship with Blue Origin was quite intriguing:
As for my visions of future private space flight: here I have to remind you of something, which is that, up to this point in the interview, I have been wearing my novelist hat, meaning that I talk freely about whatever I please. But private space flight is an area where I wear a different hat (or helmet). I do not freely disseminate my thoughts on this one topic because I have agreed to sell those thoughts to Blue Origin. Admittedly, this feels a little strange to a novelist who is accustomed to running his mouth whenever he feels like it. But it is a small price to pay for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become a minor character in a Robert Heinlein novel.
And don’t miss his description of his battles with William Gibson.
Elizabeth Edwards reportedly has been diagnosed with breast cancer. That might explain Senator Edwards’ strange “concession” speech yesterday when he introduced Senator Kerry.
My best wishes to her and her family. But I hope she can find a competent doctor who hasn’t been put out of business by her husband’s courtroom chicanery.
…who thinks that Free Republic is a blog.
Well, in that genre, he’ll have a lot more competition, but if anyone could do it, Ed Wood could.