December 2009
29 posts
“In Brooklyn reality had been empty and meaningless - whatever inferior stuff it...”
– The Magicians, by Lev Grossman. I’m enjoying my new acquisition.  It feels like the first new fiction I’ve read in quite a while, even though I read a few books on my Asia trip.  And to add a crazy twist, I got it at the public library.  No, really - those places still exist!  They have...
Dec 30th
Dec 29th
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After In Re Nintendo, A Quartet of Cases Question... →
Check out that sexy byline!
Dec 28th
True/False
unnamedplayer: sportscentr: unnamedplayer: sportscentr: Kevin Riley is the Jay Cutler of the Pac-10. Jeff Tedford is the Brian Sabean of the Pac-10. On second thought, Kevin Riley is actually the Rex Grossman of the Pac-10.  Jeff Tedford is the Marty Schottenheimer of the Pac-10. That’s a winner.  I think Jim Harbaugh is the Steve Mariucci of the Pac 10… rajiv: Grossman finished...
Dec 24th
Dec 24th
New York in Last Place in Happiness Rating →
51 out of 51.  I moved 3000 miles west, to #46.  But if I keep going, I could get to #2 Hawaii…
Dec 23rd
“All sorts of half-forgotten acquaintances and abandoned friendships reappear in...”
– James, on Facebook and the quarterlife crisis.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 18th
we're in mexico now →
unnamedplayer: bitches rajiv: It’s as though the Secret Muslim Council posed the question, “How can we be reviled by ignorant white people in the U.S.?”  The answer: become Mexican, too. In other news, support for building that wall just went up 500%
Dec 18th
WatchWatch
unnamedplayer: recunize son rajiv: w00t.
Dec 17th
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Manhattan, better than ever →
Dec 17th
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More Harbaughs! →
bfizzle: Meet…Sgt. Footbaugh! rajiv: Stanford University, where legacy admissions work in both directions.
Dec 10th
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Brian Kelly confirms contact with Notre Dame; Jim... →
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Dec 7th
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Some football thoughts
unnamedplayer: You’re indicting Texas with the same argument that Texas used to get Cal out of the Rose Bowl - that is, you’re using their last game as an example for an argument that could be applied to every team vying for the bowl spot (a bad game that results in a win is still an indictment of the team’s quality). Well, there’s a few things to say about that.  First, I do weight the...
Dec 7th
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Some football thoughts
unnamedplayer: caffeinated: TCU and Cinci are better, and have accomplished more, than Texas. omar: i’m not actually sure that’s true.  i think that the evidence can point to any of the three teams; texas just happens to be the one that everyone is picking on because they got the bid. rajiv: There’s no question that I’m picking on them because I hate Texas.  I also think...
Dec 7th
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Some football thoughts
WTF, Golden Bears?  Schizo much? Suck it, Steelers. TCU and Cinci are better, and have accomplished more, than Texas. Ndamukong Suh deserves to win the Heisman.  Toby second. Suck it, Gators. Holy crap, Saints. Hines Ward is dirty as shit, and announcers praise him for it. Suck it, Tebow.
Dec 6th
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much ado about nothing →
unnamedplayer: harbaugh may be a jerk, but he’s a fair and balanced jerk.  (tyrone on the other hand did plenty to offend LGBT community…) rajiv: From the article: Harbaugh called back to personally state he never said the word “f***ot.” … Harbaugh acknowledged that he did curse but did not say an anti-gay slur. So he said … what?  He’s obviously swearing at the ref -...
Dec 6th
Wow
That (non) buzzer beater at the end of regulation in Washington vs. Texas Tech was just about the closest call I’ve ever seen.  Hope there’s video of that on youtube soon. Kudos to the officials for getting the call right.
Dec 4th
Darpa is cool →
Dec 3rd
Good luck in your speech tonight, President Bush →
interstate: $45 billion is what?  $150 per US resident.  We need to start charging war taxes.  Among other things, a problem with both these “wars” is that very few of us actually feel that we’re at war in our day-to-day lives. rajiv: Agreed.  Among my many objections to the Bush (and now Obama) policy on war and taxes: by my count, the 2003 Iraq War and Bush tax cuts marked the first time in...
Dec 2nd
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Good luck in your speech tonight, President Bush →
bfizzle: caffeinated: bfizzle: caffeinated: [snip] The surge dramatically reduced the violence in Iraq, led to Maliki’s government taking a more active role in Iraqi security and governance, enabled a relatively peaceful democratic election, and allowed the US to start putting a timeline on withdrawal from Iraq. If we can do those things in Afghanistan with this surge, it would have been...
Dec 2nd
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Good luck in your speech tonight, President Bush →
bfizzle: caffeinated: Oh wait, I guess technically you’re not him.  Oops. Say, you realize you didn’t win the Nobel War Prize, right? Now, I’m not endorsing Obama’s decision to escalate in Afghanistan, but that article is kind of silly when you take into account the fact that the Iraq troop surge worked really well. So Obama’s talking points are similar to Bush’s? Who cares, when it was the...
Dec 1st
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower Bob Herbert: A Tragic Mistake
Dec 1st
Good luck in your speech tonight, President Bush →
Oh wait, I guess technically you’re not him.  Oops. Say, you realize you didn’t win the Nobel War Prize, right?
Dec 1st
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