Unqualified Offerings

Beginning of overtime, Giants-Packers, 20-20.
Tom Coughlin’s mania for the long field goal try in bad weather overdraws the good will account he built up in the Patriots game. Discuss.
UPDATE: Hunh. Well I never.
Meanwhile, this is exactly what should have happened. Giants-Patriots, The Rematch. It’s almost too fantastic.

By Thoreau
Dr. Judah Folkman, the Harvard cancer researcher who launched the field of anti-angiogenesis therapy, has died. In a nutshell, he realized the significance of the fact that tumors recruit the growth of new blood vessels. Your body has the natural ability to grow new blood vessels (you take advantage of this process [...]

In comments to the previous entry, Thoreau wonders
If the people profiting from the current situation find the Democrats sufficiently to their liking (once brought to heel) then the Republicans might find themselves in the surprising position of being tossed to the wayside when their former Masters find new hosts to occupy.
Unlikely. You can’t understand the [...]

Scott Horton of Harper’s offers some of the results of his investigations into Blackwater. Tiniest excerpt:
Blackwater’s relationship with the Bush Administration is curiously symbiotic. The Administration is a heavy consumer of Blackwater’s services. It actually involves itself in marketing Blackwater to others, as if Blackwater were a for-profit extension of the Administration. Maybe it is.
Much [...]

The Good vs. Evil calculus is rough on today’s games. Ultimately, one must root for the Patriots and Giants, so they can reprise their Week 17 contest in the Super Bowl. But as a disgruntled Redskin fan, I feel the allure of Norv Turner’s team advancing. Think: it would make Norv the coach of one [...]

I completely agree with Thoreau downblog. Certainly the 1990s tech boom, distinguished from the subsequent bubble, followed the freeing-up of enormous amounts of technical prowess and investment capital we call the Cold War “peace dividend.” It’s pretty much the establishment position of the Republican Party, the “pro-market” or at least “pro-business” party, that the “peace [...]

. . . is the chess variant Bobby Fischer championed late in life, I learn from IcelandReview. Also known as Chess960, because there are 960 possible starting positions. See David A. Wheeler; Wikipedia; The Chess Variants Pages.

Brad Rodriquez sings!
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
CosmoLifestyleOrangeBeltwayKochtoLibertarian!
Even though the readership
was borderline Hitlerian
Digging up this ancient dirt
is simply quite barbarian!
CosmoLifestyleOrangeBeltwayKochtoLibertarian!
And that’s just the chorus. (After Sanchez.)
UPDATE: Fixed incorrect attribution.

By Thoreau
One of my colleagues was opining the other night that ceasing to be an Empire will require a simpler lifestyle, but it’s worth it.
I agree that we should stop trying to rule the world, but I’m not completely sure that he frames the argument accurately. I think it’s arguable that our Empire is [...]