Who needs the other 8 guys on the team? This guy can do it all!
Brewers pitcher Yovani Gallardo pulled off an interesting feat today, beating the Pirates with 11 strikeouts in eight innings and providing his own support with a homer in the seventh inning off Ian Snell. It was Gallardo’s second homer this […]

Looks like those darn Europeans are mucking up Somalia.
In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country’s […]

Wow, someone actually merged the entire Watchmen story with the NFL. It is pretty long, so I didn’t read the whole thing, but the parts I read seemed both spot-on and amusing at the same time. This definitely took some time to put together.
Btw, best comment from the story:
I want to […]

Finally a sport where no matter how abysmal your team is, no matter how great your hopes are dashed, you can be assured your team will win at least once.
Time to renew those hopes, Tigers fans
By KRISTA JAHNKE • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • February 13, 2009
Today, pitchers and catchers report to spring training facilities […]

I am growing increasingly aware of and sick of the role power plays in society. I’m not necessarily talking about political power, but power & status in every day interactions between people. Demonstrating some skill, or knowing some fact, to make yourself look better. Finding activities or conversation topics that make yourself […]

Sad and funny at the same time.

Call it the “War on Christmas” or call it political correctness run amok, or perhaps assume that this reletively minor holiday next week just slipped their mind, but this is absolutely ridiculous. Next week NYRA will be recruiting at an activism fair at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, MD. So I went […]

This just blows my mind. I have to get up disgustingly early tomorrow but I can’t stop playing with this. Wow. You can actually get 360 panoramic views at street level now. Wow.
Here is a random dirt road in Arkansas:
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US 66 in New Mexico:
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The corner of Haight […]

FIRST NATIONAL DEBATE ON LOWERING THE LEGAL DRINKING AGE- College Presidents, Experts, Authors and Associations on the Elite Panel-
WHAT: Manhattanville College hosts the first national debate convened to consider the proposition that it is time to rethink the legal drinking age.
The elite panel will openly discuss the legal drinking age and explore whether or not […]

My day began watching MSNBC and CNN for election coverage. Watching Obama take like 15 minutes to fill out his ballot (yikes, is the IL ballot that complicated, or was he just taking his time knowing the cameras were on him?) Funny note during the show, Bill Ayers came in to vote at […]