August 2008
24 posts
“The buffalo herd can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd...”
– Perfect logic from the esteemed Cliff Clavin
“Obama stopped at the three point line, passed the ball to the new muscle man...”
– Al Giordano on the working class hero choice of Joe Biden as our next Vice President. If you don’t know much about him, and admittedly I did not, this will fill in the blanks
An Irish Perspective...
We, in Ireland, can’t figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.
On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to another lawyer who can’t seem to keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer, who goes to the wrong church, who is married to yet another lawyer, who doesn’t even like the...
The Shortest Swim Can Be the Most Complicated
New York Times article on the 50m free and the details of what seems a “simple” event…
The NBC stats: 4x100m free relay: By the numbers
3.99: Seconds by which the U.S. team broke the previous world record, set the night before in prelims. 5: Number of teams in the race who swam faster than the previous record: U.S., France, Australia, Italy and Sweden.
46.06: Fastest relay split in history, by Jason Lezak, who achored the U.S. to gold. The second-fastest split is 46.63, more than half a second slower, swum twice by Frederick...
Wal - Mart Mobilizes Against Democrats: Report
Now this post may not be what you think it is. Yeah it bothers me when I read stuff like this, especially that the idea of any unionization of low paid, workers is bad. But the kicker here and what truly troubles me as a progressive was what I read at the bottom of the article, which was in the Times, but provided by Reuters:
(Reporting by Purwa Naveen Raman in Bangalore; editing by Jeffrey...