Archive for March 31st, 2008

• Final Four

  How does it feel to rest at 98.6% in the ESPN.com tournament challenge, you ask? Pretty damn good. Kids, it pays to play it safe. Stay in school. It is a little surprising that all four 1-seeds made it this far, the first time it has ever happened. I was counting on two, maybe three, [...]

• First Read

  The thing I don’t like about MSNBC.com’s First Read is that there is too much information in each post. Not too much substance, per se, but too many different topics being covered. It’s very un-blog-like. I don’t mind the effort — the NBC political team does do a good job — but don’t call it [...]

• Atonement

  I am not sure why this film was nominated for an Academy Award. In retrospect, I think the Academy may have had an off year. It was a different type of story, which is welcome, and my wife liked it. I think this is a film that must be watched more than once (which I [...]