Sports as spectacle...
...(Or spectacles in sports.) My buddies and I used to amuse ourselves by creating what we considered to be funny baseball rosters. You know, things like Best All-Time All Left-Handed squad or Best Name All Stars. My favorite was the All George list inspired by the presence on the Reds roster of George "Sparky" Anderson, George Foster, and George Thomas Seaver. Boston.com has now published its 1985 All-Eyeglasses Team. Fun screen show.
Last words and final moments of...
...38 U.S. presidents. Of course, being a history nerd, I knew many of these already. The most poignant death bed scenes of all our presidents was that of George Washington, who showed the same magnanimity and courage in dying that he had always shown in living. Visiting the Mount Vernon bed room in which it happened is something that will always stay with me, as will the boarding house in which Abraham Lincoln died and the Warm Springs room in which Franklin Roosevelt passed.
Can you tell me how to get...
...away from Sesame Street? After forty-four years at the same address, Sonia Manzano is retiring, presumably heading to where the air is sweet.
Just because you knocked the patient out, doctor...
...doesn't mean he can't hear you.
Rent a crowd...
...dream product for the politician trying to simulate momentum.
Microwave your corn on the cob...
...Shared this last year. Love fixing corn this way. No muss, no fuss, quick.
Where's the religious extremism...
...we were warned would erupt after the Supreme Court's same sex marriage decision?
Labeling peaceful proponents of traditional marriage “religious extremists” is as misleading as it is mean-spirited. (from The Washington Post)Amen
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