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Finally Sorta Good Economic News
In today’s WSJ, Nouriel Roubini gives the best economic news I’ve heard in a while. It’s not what we normally think of as good news though, so let’s put the news in context. First understand that Roubini’s nickname is the … Continue reading
Tagged Economics, Nouriel Roubini
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Bill Moyers — PBS Moralist Exposed
Bill Moyers is a long-time left-wing political commentator. As with most commentators on the left, his attacks take on the ‘how could they’ faux-saintly tone, which is grating. It turns out that during all that preening, he was greatly [millions] … Continue reading
John Updike Reporting on Ted Williams as Recommended by the Great Tom Wolfe
John Updike was a great American writer who died very recently. Ted Williams was a great American baseball player who died not so recently. In reading about Updike, I discovered that he had written an essay on Ted Williams last … Continue reading
Tagged John Updike, Ted Williams, Tom Wolfe
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>Focused Gouveia Ready for Marquardt
>Local sports writer and television producer, Armando Alvarez, gives us a glimpse into the world of Mixed Martial Arts. Alvarez wrote a feature on the UFC’s Brazilian middleweight, Wilson Gouveia: It looks as Gouveia has been training harder than ever … Continue reading
Tagged Local Sports, Santos Perez
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Order is Restored to the Force
Fairness dictates that I acknowledge that the Miami Herald ran an editorial today endorsing the stadium plan. Ya gotta love that paper! The Herald’s editorial in full: Now is a good time to build a stadium: City, county commissions should … Continue reading
The Empire keeps striking back
Please forgive all the grammatical and sloppy errors you might have seen in the Miami Herald over these past few weeks. There is a reason they ran a picture of UNC coach Roy Williams when they were in fact referring … Continue reading
How the power that be in Miami operates
The Miami Herald seems to oppose the building of a stadium which would ensure MLB remains in Miami. I write that because of the one-sidedness of their reporting. Here is how I see the Herald wielding its influence: Wednesday, Feb … Continue reading
Posted in Marlins Ballpark & Finances
Tagged Miami Herald, Michael Putney, Neil deMause
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Injecting Reason into the Steroids Debate
I contend that science, sports nutrition and statistics offer us sane MLB fans a way out [see the last paragraph] of the boring steroids monologue and phony outrage which sports commentators threaten to drown us with this coming season. The … Continue reading
Posted in Marlins Ballpark & Finances
Tagged Bill James, Hannibal Lecter, J.C. Bradbury, Josh Friedman, Michael Lewis, Moneyball
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We have been through the Gospels, but have the Gospels been through us?
We have been through the Gospels but have the Gospels been through us? So asks our favorite ethernet priest, Fr Vallee. Here is an excerpt of his homily from Feb 8th, 2009: You and I know the Gospels pretty well. … Continue reading
Peggy Noonan’s Serious Question
Peggy Noonan formulates the national security question for the Obama Administration very succinctly in her recent column: The question for the Obama administration: Do they think Mr. Cheney is essentially correct, that bad men are coming with evil and deadly … Continue reading
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