Today is Super Bowl Sunday, when the two best NFL teams play football in between commercial breaks.
For years, I’ve found the Super Bowl to be virtually unwatchable, too overly hyped for its own good. I know it’s naively cliche to say this, but it bugs me that the Super Bowl is an Entertainment Spectacular! instead [...]
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Nice try, GOP Alliance Twitter feed
Recently, I came across a tweet from something called The GOP Alliance:
Every presidential assassin has been a liberal, communist, anarchist, someone on the Left.
That word “every” is one of those red-flag words that set off my bullshit detector. Given my interest in history as well as my interest in debunking ridiculous claims made by ideologues, [...]
Defense takes a Holliday, but hey, it’s Franklin
The St. Louis Cardinals lost in ugly fashion Thursday night, blowing a one-run lead in the ninth inning to fall behind the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0 in the best-of-5 NLDS.
Among the Cardinals Twitterati, many electrons were spilled trying to cast blame for the meltdown. The conventional wisdom is that Matt Holliday has to take the [...]
What’s the most useless stoplight in Springfield?
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“Stop,” Jane’s Addiction
Stoplights.
Just the mere mention of the word sends my upper lip into a involuntary sneer. I *hate* having to stop for red lights. It’s become something of an inside joke with my family, as I tend to get the booty end of the stoplight stick no matter [...]
Feeling Minnesota about going to Minnesota
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“Outshined,” Soundgarden
In a few days, I leave for a week in Minnesota. Mrs. Communist’s oldest younger cousin is getting married, and her dad is springing for accommodations.
It would be ungracious to turn down such an offer, so we accepted. It’s the drive up there that I’m not looking forward [...]
Mind ur own bzns
If there is one thing that can raise my hackles, it’s when people/governments intrude into my personal business.
In the latest bit of legislation that is neither necessary nor chock full o’ common sense, the Illinois House has approved a bill that would ban text messaging (and other forms of non-voice mobile communication) while driving.
It’s bad [...]
Here’s an idea: Look both ways
Doing what governments do best, Capt. Jack Campbell of the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office is planning a study to determine what can be done for pedestrians trying to hustle across North Dirksen Parkway:
“What I’d like to do is talk to IDOT … and determine do we need to put in crosswalks or do we need [...]
On Eight Belles and the gnashing of teeth
Despite my inclination as a lover of animals (in a strictly platonic sense, of course), I find it hard to get worked up about Eight Belles getting shipped off to the glue factory.
In fact, it’s surprising that this kind of thing doesn’t happen more often. What do you expect when an animal that weighs 1000 [...]
Another reason why ethanol is not the answer
Corn is king here in central Illinois. It’s been that way for many decades and will continue to be for many decades more.
Corn feeds humans as well as cattle, which in turn feed us some more. And it also feeds the ever-growing maw of the ethanol industry. With the massive subsidies being paid for corn [...]