Archive for January, 2005

I suppose it’s nice that pundits from coast-to-coast have suddenly discovered that the New England Patriots can actually win a game every now and then, even though almost none of their players apparently are among the best in the league. Yes, it is nice. It’s nice to read scribes scribbling nice thing about the team [...]

Pittsburgh is in a state of shock, and one can understand why: “We’re all like devastated,” Nick Hoban said after the game. Hoban, who lives on the South Side, said he already had purchased six airline tickets, six Super Bowl tickets and several Jacksonville, Fla., hotel rooms for him, his two sons and three nephews. [...]

There was no lack slugging in the trenches, but for the big plays, the New England Patriots struck deep with lightning speed, Heinz Guderian style. Tom Brady to Deion Branch for a touchdown, Tom Brady to Deion Branch to set up David Givens touchdown, Rodney Harrison’s 87 yard, lightly contested, interception return for a touchdown, [...]

A neither upliftning nor surprising take on the relief efforts of the US Navy in Indonesia: My warship had been transformed into a floating hotel for a bunch of trifling do-gooders overnight. As I went through the breakfast line, I overheard one of the U.N. strap-hangers, a longhaired guy with a beard, make a sarcastic [...]

Malaysia’s long-planned crackdown on illegal immgrants was temporarily delayed after the Chrismas Tsunami struck its neighboring countries. Channel NewsAsia reports that Malaysia is going to go ahead and expel the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens suspected of living in the country: Malaysia will not further extend an amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal [...]

NFL Films’ NFL Game of the Week hit a homerun with its hourlong presentation of the divisional play off game between Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots at Gillettte Stadium in Foxboro, Massaschusetts. The Groundhog Day send up, the mixing of Patriots and Colts radiocasts – increasingly triumphant Patriots commentrators, decreasingly enthusiastic Colts game callers [...]

The AFC Championship game game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots promises to be a classic. Of course, such anticipated match-ups can quickly degenerate into absolute blowouts when one collapses under a pile of self-inflicted wounds. This one is likely to live up to expectations. Hopefully, it will also live up to [...]

Fresh off yet another devastating loss to the defending Super Bowl champions New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts are repaying their fans by asking for a new, publicly-funded $600 million retractable-roof dome. They are meeting some resistance from state legislators: “I’m not sure that we have to have the most expensive dome in the country,” [Indiana [...]

Conservative journalist Steve Sailer connects one of Larry Summers angry detractors to lesbian corruption in California academics. Hilarious. Hey, unlike Sailer, I’m not a California tax payer, so what the heck do I care? Bleed the crapfest dry, for all I care. Back in Massachusetts, Summers has caved in completely, as one could have expected: [...]

This shall hopefully be my only post related to the very important somebody-somewhere-once-used-the-n-word-scandal. I have no problem criticizing a fellow Swede, so, yes, it was very stupid and careless of Metro exec Steve Nylund to make a deeply offensive racial and vulgar joke at a business function. I suppose his explanation that he inadvertently used [...]