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Monday, February 6th, 2006

My Favorite Super Bowl Ad?

The one where the guy throws the cellphone at the other guy and beans him twice…very Three Stooges-like in its subtlety…

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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

The Lowest of the Low

There’s scum, and then there’s scum - and this is about as scummy as it gets…throw the book at ‘em! In fact, throw two or three books…

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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Words That Look Funny Sometimes, Even Though They’re Not Misspelled

Number one:
intriguing
(Who says I never write anything substantive?)…

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Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Michael Moore Says Osama Sounds Like Michael Moore!

I DEMAND AN APOLOGY! Why, this Michael Moore says the Left is like the terrorists! It’s the biggest outrage since New Coke!
From Michael Moore’s website, the day before the 2004 election:
I know it’s gotta be rough for you [Bush] right now. Hey, we’ve all been there. “You’re fired” are two horrible words when put […]

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Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Internet Connection Down

Posting this on my cellphone. Back tomorrow…

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Sunday, January 15th, 2006

This Ain’t No Party

Thousands upon thousands of Longhorn fans are descending on Austin this weekend for the ‘official’ National Championship celebration - but you have to wonder why:
Tentative program
6:30 p.m.: Welcome
6:34 p.m.: Longhorn Band
6:36 p.m.: National anthem and ‘The Eyes of Texas’
6:38 p.m.: Team enters
6:39 p.m.: Comments/dignitaries
6:50 p.m.: Comments by UT athletics officials, coaches, players
7:11 p.m.: Video presentation
7:15 […]

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Sunday, January 8th, 2006

The Dream Is Over

Almost certainly, the Texas Longhorns will not repeat as NCAA champions:
Vince Young is headed to the NFL.
The quarterback who led Texas to its first national championship in 36 years announced Sunday he would make himself eligible for the NFL draft.
“I thank God for the opportunity to be in this position,” Young said at a news […]

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Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Texans Stick With Bush

Now that’s no surprise, really, considering he’s our native son and the President, and - wait, hold on. Sorry, I got a little confused.
It’s the Houston Texans who say they’re sticking with Reggie Bush as the number one draft pick on the NFL. That’s of some comfort to UT fans, as I can […]

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Friday, January 6th, 2006

Generic Ballot Poll Shows Broad Preference For Democrats

The new AP/Ipsos poll shows Democrats are favored 49-36. The conventional wisdom says two things about polls of this sort: (1) they don’t matter, because people don’t vote generically, they vote for their own incumbent, except in rare cases, and (2) nevertheless, anything in the double-digits is troublesome.
Many Republicans take comfort in […]

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Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Rose Bowl Was Highest Rated College Football Game In Nearly 20 Years

From the AP:
Texas’ last-minute victory over Southern California in the Rose Bowl drew the highest rating for a college football game in 19 years.
ABC Sports’ broadcast of Texas’ 41-38 victory Wednesday night got a 21.7 rating, a 59% increase from the 13.7 for USC’s win over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl in last year’s Bowl […]

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Thursday, January 5th, 2006

The Vince Young Game

That’s what WaPo humorist Joel Achenblog is calling the Rose Bowl, while calling Young’s performance one of the most dominating of all time:
Texas deserved to win because Vince Young played such a stupendous game. A quarterback passing for 267 yards in a big game is fairly ordinary, but who has ever run for 200 at […]

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Thursday, January 5th, 2006

YYYEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!

LONGHORNS WIN!!!!! NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!!! WWWWWWHHHHHHOOOOOOAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Party in Austin TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I take back every last bad thing I ever said about Vince Young….
41-38, the Longhorns win their 4th national title, and first in 35 years…
I’m a Red Raider first, but I started at UT, and no one who lives in Austin can fail to be excited about […]

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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

The Only Thing Left To Say Is…

…GOOOOOOOOOOOOO Longhorns! Beat those Trojans!….
UPDATE 8:08 p.m.: It’s all USC so far, thanks primarily to Texas mistakes, but the game is clearly in reach. 7-0, USC, at the end of 1…
UPDATE 2 8:39 p.m.: Well, you hate to win on bad calls, and that was a bad one. Vince Young was clearly […]

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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

The Waiting Is The Hardest Part…

…but there’s precious little of that left, as the big clash between the Longhorns and the Trojans is near. The teams will be hard-pressed, though, to match last night’s Orange Bowl, a triple-overtime thriller that kept football fans up into the wee hours of the morning before Florida State finally succumbed to a scrappy […]

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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Absolutely Amazing

12 of the 13 trapped West Virginia coal miners have survived and been rescued…obviously, our prayers for a full recovery and deepest sympathy to the family members of the deceased…
UPDATE 7:24 a.m.: Sadly, the reports were mistaken. As of this writing, only one survivor…

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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

…And If There’s Any Left Over, We Might Spend A Couple of Hundred on Education

On a day when the headlines are (justifiably) focused on the corruption the Abramoff scandal might yet unveil, there’s another scandal going on; it’s been going on for dozens of years, and it’s not getting any better. The worst part is, our children are the victims:
If we told you that an organization gave away […]

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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Sizing Up ‘06

NBC’s First Read is back with a look at the prospects for the major parties in the 2006 midterms:
Democrats must net six seats to retake control of the Senate and 15 seats to retake control of the House. NBC political analyst Charlie Cook and the editors of his Cook Political Report today see Democrats […]

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Monday, January 2nd, 2006

Oh, No! Alabama By a Hair!

Well, congrats to Alabama, whose defense was just good enough to eke out a 13-10 victory on a 46-yard field goal by Christensen as time expired. ‘Bama finishes 10-2, and my Red Raiders end a season that could have been great with a merely good 9-3 record. That’s the breaks - the Crimson […]

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Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Hello, 2006!

You don’t look a day past 2005…another look back, with a humorous touch, from Dave Barry…

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Friday, December 30th, 2005

2006 In Review

James Lileks channels his future self, and presents us with a preview of next year’s end-of-year wrap-up:
The New York Times, fresh from reporting the self-destruct codes for the American spy satellites that had inadvertently listened into 15 pay-per-view porn orders from cable subscribers in Omaha, revealed that U.S. subs have been violating Chinese territorial waters […]

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