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An Excellent Look
BBWE: Best bird writing ever.— March 9, 2008 11:09 p.m.
Free Michelle Wie, Part 2
$19 million worth of heartbreak and confusion. As a plot, it would strain credulity; it would be pushed aside even by the Hollywood preteens who greenlight the most pubescent of our artforms.— March 9, 2008 11:04 p.m.
Valentine's Day Column
Now what, indeed? I can only hope for more. I can appreciate -- indeed, you make me relive with you -- the lure of marrying a gestalt rather than some damp young person who has only recently pecked through the eggshell. Now in my case of me and my bride, our tribes were in many ways similar, starting at the dysfunctions and right on up to ... yet more dysfunctions. We did not really like one another's families. That was not the attraction. I suppose she wanted to rescue me from my family and I wanted to rescue her from hers. What came after would take more than this comment box to describe. But we're still together, so I suppose it was a creative tension.— February 14, 2008 2:01 p.m.
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What I enjoy about this controversy at the moment is that it is a true mystery. How does one tease out the determinative factor retrospectively? And that may be a good thing. The pollsters won't be able to explain it away. The machine mysteriously sputtered to a halt. You will never have the same confidence in it again. Modesty rears its head.— January 16, 2008 12:21 p.m.
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Those who wish to pore through past comments to this blog will note that I said Buy McCain a long month ago, before the Huck took down the Mitt. He's the one that I fear because his pandering pales next to the Mitt, and he really doesn't give a s--t about Jesus. (Let it be noted The Mighty Reader made me introduces those dashes.)— January 5, 2008 1:45 p.m.
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I'm still inclined to buy me some McCain. I am fascinated by those holes in his face. People won't be able to tear their eyes away. As for Obama, his manner is so cool though sometimes his rhetoric is hot. I think that's a recipe for media success. He doesn't look like he's reaching for it.— December 27, 2007 2:47 p.m.
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Big Pat, you are dealing with an early example of intellectual crowdsourcing. I've been following the Iowa markets for quite a while, and their accuracy is better than the mean for pollsters, and that means (haha) something because a pollster that hits it one time is almost always (correct me if I'm wrong) off the mark next time. So the betting approach works. Give me a hundred bucks that can only be spent placing such political bets, and I'll offer $55 for Hillary and feel pretty confident I'll find a seller pretty soon. Give me another hundred to bet on a Republican, and I'll buy McCain at whatever his price is. And, as you make clear, that is not because I like McCain.— December 19, 2007 12:18 p.m.
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I suppose each of those percentages could yield the same number of actual quick steppers because of the increased number of marathoners. But that still makes your point, doesn't it? Give me a fine bike ride; that's what I say.— October 27, 2007 11:59 p.m.
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I've found that a good bike ride makes almost anything bearable, even crazy sisters-in-law. That is, if you are biking steadily away. But you always have to come back, don't you?— October 27, 2007 11:57 p.m.
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One reason I love sports is that the damage done (in the larger culture) by almost any imaginable infraction is insignificant when compared to the entertainment value. Humanity's foolishness is the canvas upon which you paint, and sports is the black velvet of canvases.— September 18, 2007 10:30 a.m.