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Heat fan request to Fox Sports
Dear Fox Sports: While scanning portions of all games involving my beloved Miami Heat on various fast forward speeds using Comcast’s DVR system, your graphics box–which displays the score on the lower right-hand side–is partially obscured by the DVR’s ‘current … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Random Observations
Tagged Chris Quinn, Fox Sports Florida, Miami Heat, NBA
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Joe Calzaghe
Miami Herald boxing article by Santos Perez on Joe Calzaghe. ————————————————————————————— Calzaghe takes out another legend Posted on Mon, Nov. 10, 2008 BY SANTOS A. PEREZ For one brief early moment, fight fans were given a glimpse of Roy Jones … Continue reading
Poor Aren’t Poor Because Rich Are Rich
Economist Robert Samuelson at his best. He addresses the question of income inequality in his column. An excerpt: Judged only by economic inequality, the financial crisis is a godsend. It will probably narrow the gap though still vast between the … Continue reading
Haiti: Beyond Cruel
On Friday a school collapsed while in session. The killed and injured children were in the hundreds. When you consider all their problems, what is happening in Haiti seems beyond cruel. But not beyond our ability to help. Catholic Relief … Continue reading
Impressive First Day?
President-elect Obama had a revealing first day in public: Named a decidedly non-post-partisan Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, who like Obama, is a product of Chicago politics. Because after all, nothing says ‘a different kind of politics’ than Chicago. Reversed … Continue reading
Freedom House
There is an organization out there that actually measures how free different countries are. Freedom House has been doing this work since 1972 and are strongly endorsed by the WSJ Editorial page, my personal measure of acceptability. This year, in … Continue reading
Do free markets corrode moral character?
My biggest concern about the fallout from the financial crisis–which lead to the Federal Rescue Plan–is whether the response to that will lead to over-regulation, i.e. trending towards the Rorschach-word of the day, socialism. The use of the ‘s’ word … Continue reading
My blog penance in Liberty City on Election Day
If done right, the Christian life is meant to be humbling. It calls for constant self-examination. I figured Election day was a perfect day to reexamine my views, specifically about our new president, which I find much to be concerned … Continue reading
Posted in 2TG Favorites, Catholic Faith & Inspiration, Current Affairs & History
Tagged Carol & Heidi, Politics
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What Can Get My Mind Off This Election?
The sports writing of Bill Simmons can do it. Sentences like those copied below give me, what I happily acknowledge to be, an inordinate amount of pleasure, even when they do not conjure up images of Christina Hendricks. If the … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged Bill Simmons, Christina Hendricks, Isiah Thomas, Mike D'Antoni, Wally Szczerbiak
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The Obama Bargain Revisited
Back in March, a WSJ article [based on a book] by Shelby Steele analyzed Barack Obama in a unique way. One particular sentence from the article captured something odd about the Obama, “bargainers [like Obama] are always laboring to stay … Continue reading
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