As much as I love sports, I understand very clearly that professional sports are big business. It feels like I read as many stories about contracts, unions, and endorsements as I do about actual athletic accomplishments. This is more of an observation than it is a complaint, of course. I would not have the incredible access I have to a huge array of sports and sports information right from my couch if there wasn’t an amazing amount of money involved. [Read more →]

Tags: bad sports, good sports by Alan Spoll
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10. Prelude to a Hangover

9. Fumbling With A Bra Strap

8. The Popular Kids Are Just Better

7. Never Give Up Grope!

6. Not Even McDonald’s is Hiring

5. Almost Legal

4. This Limo Rental Cost More Than My Car

3. Getting Faced!

2. Abstinence Makes the Hard Grow Fonder

1. A Gulf Coast Sludgefest
 

Bob Sullivan’s Top Ten Everything appears every Monday.

Tags: art & entertainment, Bob Sullivan's top ten everything, education, ends & odd by Bob Sullivan
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Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, our top military officer, spoke of the common sacrifices of the U.S. military from D-Day to today.

You can read Admiral Mullen’s remarks at my site.

Tags: terror & war by Paul Davis
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Helen Thomas, Jews back to Auschwitz!

Thank you, Helen Thomas! This semi-retired muppet made from old painters’ rags is not a hag, but a haggis. However we see the consoling virtues that compensate the aesthetically, chronologically and temperamentally challenged in her forthright statement of principles that speak for the Left generally on Zion. What is the problem in the Middle East? The Jews. What is the solution? As Ms Thomas, White House press corpse, states so succinctly, “get the hell out of Palestine!” And go where? asks the unseen and unnamed interviewer… well, back where they came from, Poland, Germany…. you know, Jewland. Or as the radio operator of the Hate Boat put it more bluntly, back to Auschwitz. You see here the power of not caring. The seasoned Ms Thomas is above petty concerns like decency or even the appearance of decency and does a real public service. She demonstrates that “peace activists” are no such thing. Rather than being anti-war on principle these 60s style radicals like Bill Ayers, one of the organizers of this New Nazi Navy, are a-okay with war but are on the other side. [Read more →]

Tags: politics & government, terror & war by Ken Watson
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Like many Americans, I’m a life-long Beatle fan who was offended by Sir Paul McCartney’s insult to former President George W. Bush last Wednesday when the singer, songwriter and former Beatle accepted the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress.    

Sir Paul should have taken a lesson in class from the Duke – John Wayne.

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Tags: art & entertainment, politics & government by Paul Davis
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War clouds gather in the Persian Gulf; Israel and her muslim, if not islamist neighbors are closer to a major clash of arms, and a more decisive one than has been the case for 30 years. Closer to your hearth and heart, oil pours out of an artery in the Mexican Gulf and even with a tourniquet applied the doctors forbid any further, even measured blood letting. Off-shore rigs are being closed in all American waters. In the most mundane of news; school’s out for summer, lies a mystery. The notorious Summer Driving Season began with the Memorial Day weekend. Additionally there are seasonal requirements for fuels in many states that tend to slow down supplies at the pump, driving up prices. The pros will tell you this was the issue year before last, when we saw $5 and $6 dollars for go- juice. But not this time. Despite international chaos and man-caused disasters at sea and in the Executive gas prices are declining a skooch as are crude prices (dropped 4% yesterday), and this is after a slow decline over a year. Can this voodoo be explained? Yes, quite simply. The market prices always look forward to the future, whether to the annual rush of corpulent families towards modest shore rentals or to the new century needs of manufacturing and shipping. In their torpor the markets signal their grasp of one simple fact: The future has been cancelled. [Read more →]

Tags: money, politics & government by Ken Watson
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As everyone knows and has been addressed on this site already, pitcher Armando Galarraga recently lost a perfect game when the umpire missed a call, a fact he quickly and regretfully admitted. Hearing of this injustice, Commissioner Bud Selig exploded into action and did what he does best: add Wild Card teams to the playoffs. I kid, instead he declined to act while issuing a vague statement about possible future actions (it’s a lot like baseball’s steroid policy for most of his reign). Seeing as Bud forbids addressing the past and everyone’s still upset about the lost perfect game, it seems there’s only one thing to do: schedule a new one. [Read more →]

Tags: sports by Sean Cunningham
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When a woman reaches a certain age, she realizes that she is no longer relevant. Her hair loses its luster, her ass gets larger, and her skin gets dry and crackly. Tight jeans are replaced by loose-fitting pajama pants. Men no longer whistle as she walks by. In fact, they don’t even look at her, probably because she is pushing a double stroller while carrying three large diaper bags on one arm, two sippy cups in one hand, and a container full of Cheerios in the other hand. And it’s not only her appearance that’s taken a hit; her lifestyle sure isn’t what it used to be. [Read more →]

Tags: his & hers by Nancy DeGregorio
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Earlier this week, I observed the birthday of Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO and Master of the King’s Musick, born on June 2, 1857. I noted that his birthday coincides with that time of year when one of his works, Pomp and Circumstance March #1 (“Land of Hope and Glory”) is heard so much, in so many places.
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Tags: education by Jeff McDonald
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There are things in life we are always going to remember. Things like your first day of school, your first kiss, and your first child’s birth. These are moments that will flash in your head from time to time, and that you have a permanent mental picture saved in your memory bank. One such moment like that for me was the first time I heard N.W.A.’s album “Straight Outta Compton”. 

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Tags: art & entertainment, music by Marty O'Connor
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Tags: fashion & clothing, his & hers by Glenn Giangrande
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On Wednesday night, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga threw a perfect game. Only he didn’t. At least, he won’t get credited with having thrown one. With two outs in the ninth inning, Cleveland infielder Jason Donald hit a bouncer that first baseman Miguel Cabrera had to range to his right to field. Field it he did, and he tossed to Galarraga, who was covering first. The throw beat the runner by a step and the game should have been over and the perfect game complete. It was not to be. Umpire Jim Joyce, stationed at first base for the evening, inexplicably called Donald safe. [Read more →]

Tags: sports by Alan Spoll
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Former CIA director R. James Woolsey has written an interesting piece for National Review Online in which he draws parallels between present-day Iran and Nazi Germany.

Will Obama and other world leaders respond to the Iranian threat like Winston Churchill or Neville Chamberlain? 

Tags: politics & government, terror & war by Paul Davis
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With one annual exception, I rarely spend much time watching reality shows on television. That exception has arrived this month, as I feast upon a slew of food- and cooking-themed programs.
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Tags: recipes & food, television by Jeff McDonald
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May 21, 2010
I dream I live in a fancy community of witches and warlocks situated near an amusement park. We hear bad omens and our worst fears come true. A very sophisticated rival group has sent over their crows to let us know there is to be a challenge. During a pool party we attempt to figure out how we will be attacked. On the night of the big skirmish I and several other less intrepid wizards congregate at the top of the roller coaster to wait this thing out.

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Tags: Fred's dreams by Fred Siegel
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What happens when the day you have been breathlessly anticipating finally arrives? You start to think it will never happen, and then just like that, you are sitting in a dark theater surrounded by gaggles of other like-minded women (and a few men). You and the other women just know that you will love Sex and the City 2, because you have loved these characters for years, and you would follow these four women anywhere. Those who never cared for the television series may not care for the film, but the filmmakers made this film for you, and other devotees of the television series. But while I loved the experience, Sex and the City 2 needs a clearer story and stronger writing. Like many sequels, Sex and the City 2 is not as satisfying as the first film. [Read more →]

Tags: Gail sees a movie, movies by Gail D. Rosen
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The US Supreme Court made a very… interesting… ruling yesterday.

From the Washington Post:

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a criminal suspect must explicitly invoke the right to remain silent during a police interrogation, a decision that dissenting liberal justices said turns the protections of a Miranda warning “upside down.”

It’s a very, very rare instance where I find myself siding firmly with the liberals on the USSC [Read more →]

Tags: on the law by Mike McGowan
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Reuters has a disturbing story today about the stock price of BP. It is “plunging”:

BP fell close to 17 percent in London trading, wiping $23 billion off its market value, on weekend news that its latest attempt to plug its blown-out seabed well had not worked sparked fears oil could leak into the Gulf until August.

As long as BP is losing money, it cannot muster the resources necessary to pay for the spill cleanup. And if the spill isn’t cleaned up, I think we all know it’s the children who will suffer the most. Well, that, and our faith in our institutions.

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Tags: environment & nature, politics & government by Ricky Sprague
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I love a good memoir! I tend not to enjoy celebrity memoirs as much as I do those books written by relatively ordinary folks who have lived really interesting lives. I’ve reviewed a number of them over the last few years, but The Bucolic Plague is by far the funniest — from the title, which would have made me pick it up all on its own, to Josh’s thanks to Martha Stewart in the Acknowledgments. I started out marking funny passages that I might want to share in this review, but the book quickly became a forest of pink and green Post-It flags.

The names of some characters have been changed, and some are composites of various people, experiences and conversations I had then. If you think that’s unfair, you’ve obviously never lived in a small town and written a memoir about your neighbors.

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Tags: books & writing, Lisa Reads by Lisa Hura
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