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I didn’t get home in time to catch Bush’s State of the Union speech. By all accounts it was fairly contentless and he knocked over Cheney’s glass of water at the end.
I did see the Democratic response. It was mostly too painful to watch. The staging was horrible. The lighting was [...]

I’m fully despairing over the Iowa Caucus results.
Permit me a minute of total confusion over how 38% of Iowa Caucus-goers could possibly declare themselves for Senator John Kerry. I’m chalking it up to the uselessness of voting Iowans.
Why do we give them first crack at deciding the candidate if they are gonna do such [...]

Iowa Senator Tom Harkin’s endorsement of Howard Dean couldn’t have come a better time. Hopefully this sews things up in Iowa.
In other news, The Note learns us some of the finer points of political prediction:
The Hill’s tipsheet has this to say on the Harkin Primary: “Despite pressure from the Howard Dean camp and other [...]

This AP article outlines some of CNN’s plans for the coming year.
Thankfully the network does not plan on “gavel-to-gavel” coverage of celebrity trials, will somewhat extensively cover the Party Conventions and seeks to be judicious in calling elections by exit polls.
The latter is all that can be hoped after the 2000 election debacle in which [...]

It looks like the Mars Rover is off to a rocky start.
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha…Ha…Ha. Ha.

Seems just about right. Did anyone think that Mars wouldn’t look something like this?

I was reading a fair to middling article by Stewert Mandel of SI.com summarizing the College Bowl aftershocks.
Mr. Mandel admits he was wrong about Heisman winner Jason White, the ability of Big 12 defenses and why USC quaterback Matt Leinart doesn’t have the words “Heisman winner” in front of his name.
In parting Mr. Mandel presents [...]

I’ve posted the photos my bro took of our Vacation this winter.
They really aren’t in order at the moment. I’ll try to make sense of them later. Some don’t have names as well. That will also be recitfied.

Andrew Sullivan performs one of those psychoanalyses of stereotypes so fashionable with the op-edists on our favorite Doctor, Howard Dean.
Mr. Sullivan cherry picks a few unflattering stereotypes of doctors. Doctors are aloof, arrogant, condescending know-it-alls. When doctors involve themselves in politics “they always veer toward the intolerant, dictatorial and secretive”.
Yet Dr. Dean has [...]

I think I’ll rocket out of my hiatus with a bit of the old specious syllogism.
Let me roll it out thuslywise:
If there exists some College Football Team x such that NationalChampion(x), then for all College Football teams y, BetterThan(x,y).
For any two College Football Teams z and w, if Beats(z,w) then BetterThan(z,w).
Thusly, given a [...]