Archive for 2005

Here’s a rather lengthy clip from an unspecified but not exactly unusual altercation in Sweden (this one happens to take place in northern Sweden, but it could happen anywhere). Nice summer evening + people + alcohol = bad stuff! Swedes drink too much. It’s a bit difficult to make out what’s going on in the [...]

I have this idea that the phrase “African-Americans” should be used to refer only to descendents of slaves in the United States. In other words, while both Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell are black, only the former is an African-American. If it turns out that Americans want to call all blacks in America African-American, then [...]

I have no idea who this Heath Evans guy is, but, wow, thanks, stranger! Holy cow. 17 carries for 84 yards, most of them in the first half when the Pats desperately everything they got, plus a successful two-point conversion. Ben Watson’s game-winning catch in end zone would have been the catch of the game [...]

Sad. But I salute the kid who said this: “I’m inspired by people going to war.”

Business and management guru Peter Drucker has passed away at the age of 95. The business guru market is stuffed with bogus bloviators, but Drucker was the real thing, a true pioneers with innovative ideas and approaches. As a kid I read the Drucker books in my dad’s bookshelf and that experience helped form my [...]

Is there any doubt that Intelligent Design is little more than an attempt to end-around creationism into our classrooms? Worse yet: Into our science classrooms. It must be stopped. This is not about whether or not God created Earth and man but about the integrity and, frankly, usefulness of science. To call I.D. science would [...]

Today we celebrate Veterans Day. Some can trace their soldier ancestors all the way back to the Revolutionary War, others to the trenches of WWI in France, or the bloodsoaked islands of the Pacific Ocean, or the snow-covered mountains of Korea, or the jungles of Vietnam. As we remember and celebrate our heroes of the [...]

That’s what the author of this article wants you to believe. I don’t know about the state of the NBA other than this: Team USA sucks a** against other countries. Besides, you’re not going to convert me to basketball by slamming football.

I don’t think too many fans seriously had expected the New England Patriots to put up much of a fight against the grotesquesly talented and quite possibly peaking Indianapolis Colts in last night’s Monday Night Football game at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. The Colts are a near-complete team while the Patriots play with an offense [...]

Boston’s Mayor Tom Menino was re-elected in an expected 2-1 landslide victory over the thanks-for-making-this-look-like-a-democracy challenger. The numbers suggest that the Mayor is highly popular, but I rather doubt that that is the case. More likely, he’s being rewarded for sucessfully having done what is the most important job for any big-city American mayor. That [...]