I Saved 10 Lives On My Way to Work Today

This article in the Washington Post "White House: 650,000 jobs saved, created by stimulus" almost made me audibly laugh as I read the title. It really is brilliant to use a great-sounding-but-immeasurable statistic as the golden standard for progress.

I think this point it well described in this Wall Street Journal article back in June, "The Media Fall for Phony 'Jobs' Claims."

My Son the Existentialist

He has now twice come up to me and asked "Is today tomorrow?"

I still don't have a very good answer for him :)

"Strawweight Bout"

This is what happens after the Yankees clinch their division and ESPN has nothing meaningful to talk about anymore...



I love the full breakdown by the official boxing analyst who sounds like he spends most of his time in some dark warehouse-turned-boxing-gym in north Jersey.

FactCheck

I was referred to this site a while ago and have thoroughly enjoyed it ever since. Factcheck.org is a project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, which performs research in the fields of political communication, information and society, media and the developing child, health communication and adolescent risk.

***WARNING: The facts are typically much less extreme and invigorating that what is reported by people like Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly and may depress you upon your realization of the quantity and blatancy of false truths being dealt by prominent members of both parties simply for the benefit of the party or themselves, not for the American people.

Just Gets Better

!College Football Season!

The greatest play in the history of the BYU-Utah rivalry:


A different announcer:


Just watch it over and over until you're ready for the season. I've watched these two videos probably a combined 10 times over the past 15 minutes and I still can't keep myself from smiling every time. EVERY TIME!

Michael Vick Rally

Needless to say, I have many issues with any group whose own existence seems to be hypocritical of their stated purpose. Nevertheless, it seems as though the NAACP and I have finally found some common ground and a point on which we both agree.

Said the President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the NAACP in response to why he is organizing a massive rally in support of Michael Vick outside of Lincoln Financial Field, "We believe Michael Vick has served his time, paid his debt to society and deserves a second chance and the animal rights groups want to hold him hostage for the rest of his life...We think that's patently unfair. It denies Michael Vick's basic civil rights, denies him his ability to make a living."

If you feel the insatiable need to crucify someone, go after all the rapists, wife beaters, and murders currently playing unscathed within the world of sports. You won't have to search hard. Leave the guy who has actually served his time alone and let him try to make amends.