Archive for September 30th, 2008

• The College Endowment Elite

  I was talking to my wife about this issue last night,* and I’m glad someone else — in this case, Gregg Easterbrook — agrees with me. Measuring a university’s value with the endowment metric is entirely unfair (as is used in the oft-referenced U.S. News rankings), as it gives smaller schools literally no chance to [...]

• Bills’ Throwbacks

  I am going to repeat this. Actually, I am going to continue to repeat it until something is done about it, which by my estimation, will be sometime soon. The Buffalo Bills must wear their alternate throwback uniforms for every game. They simply are the best uniforms in the league (and they only wear them [...]

• Iraq 2.0 (or 3.0, if you include the 1991 dust-up)

  After spending nearly a decade creating the problem, the president has now found it convenient to come out of his hole and demand changes, demand fast action from Congress (including unprecedented power handed to the Executive branch), and to continue to lay out the potential threat that the financial crisis poses on the American people. [...]

• Laura Bush Killed A Guy

  Thank you, Family Guy… Image: Google This is for those who caught this past Sunday’s episode (which you can conveniently watch on Hulu*). * Hulu, by the way, is the best piece of evidence proving Michael Arrington’s (aka, TechCrunch) idiocy and insignificance.