Unqualified Offerings

Start of Jags-Steelers broadcast. John Madden is explaining that Jacksonville does “the things you have to do in playoff football: run the ball and stop the run.” Five minutes ago, Seattle just finished winning a game in which they couldn’t run for beans.
1st Quarter: 10:52 – John Madden just said a lot of [...]

By Mona
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Greenwald shows how Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds are blowing the dog whistle; if Obama doesn’t win, the uppity Negroes are gonna go all violent, and that supposedly explains why some whites will vote for the black candidate. Certain responses from the pro-war right carry the usual ad hominem, [...]

Washington @ Seattle, Halftime
I think we can all agree that 2 against 11 is not a fair fight. Of the Redskins offense, so far only Todd Collins and Antwaan Randle-El are acquitting themselves honorably. The O-line is getting out-muscled and Redskin receivers who have not thrown a touchdown pass in the Super Bowl are dropping [...]

So, who should you root for? Happily, most of this weekend’s games break down into straightforward contests of Good Versus Evil. You just have to identify the team representing Good and cheer for them.
Redskins @ Seahawks
Redskins. 1) Sean Taylor has invited Benazir Bhutto to watch the game from his box. It would be wrong to [...]

By Thoreau
Last night I watched 1 vs. 100. It’s a fascinating scenario to study the “wisdom of crowds.” For those who haven’t seen it, a contestant is asked a (multiple choice) question, and the same question is posed to a “mob” that starts with 100 people. If contestant gets it right, his [...]

Downblog, foolishmortal writes
Congratulations, Jim, on your utter failure to predict the Skins’ season. Watching them stuff the Cowboys today was a thing of beauty.
I missed the Sunday games because I was driving from Northern Illinois to DC, complete with sudden snow-squall on either side of the Allegheny Tunnel on the PA Turnpike. Actually, AM radio [...]

I nominate “tip of the rancid iceberg” as the infelicitous phrase of the day. Not that I have room to complain! And the piece itself is not bad.

True, Kerry Howley brings the funny early in her article on Mike Huckabee for Campaigns and Elections:
Pick an issue – any issue – being debated in the United States of America as we approach the 2008 elections, and Mike Huckabee can find a way to tell you that it won’t matter until we collectively slim [...]

Somebody else can agitate for bringing these people to heel. I got no beef.
Fortunately for Union enthusiasts, somebody else is on the case. (Via spackerman.)

The story about a minister who reenacted the parable of the talents with his flock (via Radley) reminded me of Bob’s thoughts on altruism and tithing from last summer.