Looks like I should be eating more of these foods. The only way I’ve ever eaten much beets is in borscht. I’d like to eat more cabbage, but Patricia doesn’t like it. What do you do with Swiss chard? Salad?
[Via John Scalzi]
[Update a little later]
She says she does so like cabbage. She just doesn’t like it cooked, or with corned beef. That is, she doesn’t like corned beef, so she doesn’t like corned beef and cabbage.
They sure deserved to win that game. It’s not the end of the Wolverine’s season, but it almost certainly wipes out any title hopes. It wasn’t clear to me whether the defense just stank, or whether Appalachian State was that good. The coming weeks will tell.
[Update a few minutes later]
It wasn’t just the defense. Special teams fell down, too, losing in the final seconds. You don’t win national championships by having two field goals blocked in a game.
[Another update]
One more thought. When was the last time Michigan lost three straight games (over two seasons, of course). And it’s been a long time since they lost an opener as well. They usually stumble when they play the Irish in the second or third game.
[Sunday morning update]
As I note in comments, it just occurred to me that the Wolverines haven’t won a football game since Bo Schembechler died.
And Iowahawk kindly sends along this song. There ain’t no freude like schadenfreude.
“Hail To The Victors” it’s not.
[Update on late Sunday morning]
Should Michigan even be ranked now? I think not. Just shows the stupidity of pre-season polls. They can earn their way back into the top ten, but they have to run the table now.
[Afternoon update]
Here’s a Michigan fan, drowing his sorrows in…kittens.
Well, they are cute.
It occurred to me as a programmed payments in one month in advance into Quicken software that the credit card issuers are fighting the last war. The reason I am programming my payments one month in advance is that I have about 15 minutes from the time I receive my bill to write a check, plop it in an express mail envelope, then race after the mail carrier to send it back the same day to avoid a late fee.
The late fees were rolling in bulking up bottom lines at Chase and others. The reason they implemented these fees was that interest rates were low so they jerked customers on late fees to raise revenues. The interest rate far exceeds the paycheck loan rates. $40 on a one-day late $400 payment is 128 quadrillion percent annual interest.
But now they are faced with an anxious set of commercial paper buyers and collateralized debt obligation buyers demanding to know the credit quality of the borrowers. Well, it sucks. Because it has become impossible to pay a credit card bill on time without a flow of quantum entangled photons becoming disentangled selectively at the instant you get your bill so you can pay it faster than the speed of light. Credit card issuers, do you feel that petard? It’s going to get hoisted a lot higher.
From cutting and running:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has backed down from demands for a withdrawal of our troops in Iraq by next spring.
Selling voters on cut and run was always tough, but now a new UPI/Zogby Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe the Iraq war is not lost.
Beyond the achievements of our forces, the public is obviously impressed that Iraq’s five top political leaders have agreed on a series of compromises, including oil wealth distribution and provincial elections.
Well, that’s what happens when you govern by poll instead of principle.
Kaimipono Wenger wonders why the New York Times won’t correct its constitutional error.
I’m guessing that they don’t think it’s an error. Given all the other things that they think are in the Constitution that aren’t there, they probably just shrugged it off, and thought, “fake but accurate.”
Some thoughts about Republican “sex” scandals.
Of course, the Democrats will just point to this as evidence that Republicans have “hang ups” about sex.
The only moon landing in history is NASA’s Apollo expedition in 1968.
Well, it did happen a long time ago. Probably the twit who wrote this hadn’t even been born. Anyway, I wonder where the Russians will get the money for a manned moon mission?
The only moon landing in history is NASA’s Apollo expedition in 1968.
Well, it did happen a long time ago. Probably the twit who wrote this hadn’t even been born. Anyway, I wonder where the Russians will get the money for a manned moon mission?
The only moon landing in history is NASA’s Apollo expedition in 1968.
Well, it did happen a long time ago. Probably the twit who wrote this hadn’t even been born. Anyway, I wonder where the Russians will get the money for a manned moon mission?
I hate automated phone payment systems that insist on voice input. I particularly hate them when they’re stupidly worded.
After providing information, the voice says “Can I repeat that for you?”
Well, the two options are yes, or no. Obviously, the system is capable of repeating it for me. So the correct answer is “yes.” But an answer of “yes” will result in it repeating it for me. To which my response should again be “yes.” The only to get it to stop is to lie, and say, “no.” That is, the system cannot repeat it for me, even though we both know it can. And of course, being the sensitive kind of guy I am, I feel guilty about lying to it, even though it’s just a mindless machine.
I’d like to think that there’s some counter built into the system to keep scrupulously literal and honest people from dying of starvation or sleep deprivation while continuing their futile attempts to placate it, but it seems like it would just be simpler to word it, “Should I repeat that for you?” Or “Would you like me to repeat that for you?”
It’s even more irritating than asking me whether or not I had a perfect stay.
[Update a while later]
For those curious, I see no reason to protect the guilty. Maybe they’ll hear about this and do something about it. It’s US Bank.