Monday, October 26, 2009

On...The Worst Ever

Can Karma be this bad?

Well, tomorrow night begins the 2009 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. Starting pitchers will be CC Sabathia for the NYY and Cliff Lee for the Phils. What's horribly wrong with this picture for Cleveland Indians fans? Oh, I don't know...maybe they were both CY Young winners for the Tribe no less than 3 years ago!!! Both of them!! Now the Tribe as nada. NADA!!! All on display for the nation to see. This is so cruel.

But I still hope Lee and Phils kick some Yankee butt.

And while we are on baseball. Let's see how my pre-season predictions went.

Hmm. Both my wild card pics are in the World Series. Though both won their respective divisions. I did pick the Angels out of the AL West and Dodgers out of the NL West. That's about it. Cubs and Indians tanked. But on the bright side I did pick six of the eight playoff teams right.

And I predicted Cliff Lee would go 14-12 and he went 14-13, not too bad. Other predictions were WAAAY OFF. All those Tigers are still Tigers.

Better luck next year.
Go Phillies.

Monday, October 12, 2009

On...Innovation and resourcefulness

I remember when I was in high school debate there were these findings about how the world was running out of coal. We only had until 2010 or something and then we'd be out. Well, here we are and we have enough coal reserves to lead us into the future. Huge coal strikes were found only a couple of years after that article was written. The same has now happened for natural gas. HERE. Of course we can't rest on our laurels but it shows how resourceful humans are (especially western civilization). We shall overcome the challenges. Innovation and resourcefulness.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

On...Being Busy and not Blogging

NO TIME

I've been meaning to blog on President Obama's first 10 months (it was 9 when I had the idea) however I haven't had anytime to really do it right. Heck, I had to take a 55 minute break within the space of this blog to give the baby a bath, take the garbage out, etc.

So in loo of that here are two really interesting pieces from Slate.com

The first is an overview from the new Supreme Court session. I admit I've really come to enjoy the Supreme Court as a concept and would love to actually watch a round or two live.

HERE

Second is the bizarre "shell" process of law-making that both parties use that is a bit seedy.

HERE