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Archive for January 21st, 2007

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

I’m also announcing my endorsement right now

Yesterday I called the 2008 Presidential election:  Hillary, just like every other close relative of a former President to seek that office, will lose the popular vote but become President anyway, either via the Electoral College or the obscure House runoff (in case nobody gets an absolute majority of the Electoral College, see the 12th [...]

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Playoff Live-ish Blogging III

Wow. 21-3 and the crowd is getting ugly. Colts fans may run Dungy and Manning out of town by halftime.
By the way, Troy Brown is the awesomest football player ever.
UPDATE: 21-21 in the third quarter. Things have changed!
UPDATER: And immediately change again.
UPDATEST: 28-28. Note to Colts: consider scoring more points than the Patriots, not just [...]

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Playoff Live-ish Blogging II

Jeebus the Patriot cornerbacks are awesome.

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Playoff Live-ish Blogging

The Saints’ Fred Thomas is the L. Paul Bremer of cornerbacks. Discuss.

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Awesomeness Watch

1. We’re getting our first snow of the season today. On the way home from an errand I saw the most amazing thing. I cut through Rock Creek Park through Forest Glen to get home because the snow was already slowing the Beltway to a crawl, which meant crossing the Beltway on the Linden Lane [...]

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Hiding in the Green Zone

It’s not just for the Emm Ess Emm.
According to several well informed intelligence sources, hundreds of CIA operatives have become virtual prisoners in the Green Zone, the sprawling American enclave whose high walls and guards separate the U.S. embassy, military command and related civilian agencies from the raging sectarian violence in Baghdad’s streets.
The CIA operatives [...]