US sports leagues reward inferior teams and routinely deny their best teams the championship. Richard Allen Smith and I have argued from time to time about the merits of the BCS vs. the NCAA basketball tournament. Rich defends the BCS, while I point out its unfairness and corruption. He argues that the BCS does (did) a good job at getting
Read moreNo one could possibly be THE voice of Gen X, but Cobain was certainly A voice of my generation. In their seminal 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?, published in 1993, Neil Howe and William Strauss argued that the only thing Generation Xers really agreed on was that there was no such thing as Generation X. Given the inherent irony
Read moreNo, Virginia. Intolerance of intolerance isn’t the same as intolerance of human beings. When it became public that recently appointed Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich had donated to the controversial anti-gay rights Prop 8 initiative in California back in 2008, things – as we used to say back home – blowed up. Rarebit yanked an app from the Mozilla marketplace and
Read moreNational Poetry Writing Month begins today. Will you write 30 poems in 30 days? Well, no. I won’t, not me personally. I retired from writing poetry a couple years ago. But before I did I wrote four books and am currently looking to publish them, so I definitely salute the annual celebration of the art. Here at S&R we have
Read moreIt was 20 years ago today in Boulder, CO. Do you remember where you were on April 1, 1994? I do. I was sitting at a computer in an apartment at the corner of Colorado and Foothills in Boulder, launching this really new thing called a “Web site.” Today there are over 932 million of them (and counting) in the
Read moreLast.FM tells us who we listen to the most. Isn’t that what “favorite” means? We all have our favorite bands. Most of us probably have a lot of favorite bands, in fact, and if you’re like me, that honor has probably been held by different artists throughout your life. My first favorite, back when I was in junior high, was
Read moreLullaby Pit, one of the world’s oldest Web sites, marks its 20th anniversary today. As of this moment, there are more than 930 million Web sites in the world, and we’re projected to hit a billion by the end of the year. 20 years ago today, though, there were roughly 2,000. 20 years ago today – that would have been
Read moreIt was March 31, 1994, and I was preparing to do something that very few people had ever done before. Stop by tomorrow and I’ll tell you about it.
Read moreIf multi-billion dollar football enterprise is forced to compensate players it will be the end of life as we know it. Did you catch NCAA Czar Mark Emmert talking with Greg Gumbel? Really fun stuff. Here’s the money shot: Would going to unionization mean no more NCAA? It’s entirely possible. Emmert said if student-athletes essentially became paid employees of universities
Read moreI’ve done a bit of updating to my photo site of late – new shots and a new logo, for starters. Photography has become sort of my alpha passion since I bought my first camera some 19 months ago, and I’m proud of how far I’ve come in a short time. I still have a lot to learn, but I’m loving
Read moreThird place was always the smart bet for a team in transition; Torres and Eto’o are well past the point where they can contribute to an elite side ALERT: If you’re a big Fernando Torres fan, you probably shouldn’t read any further. For Chelsea Nation, today was disappointing. [sigh] The thing is, while I have enjoyed how well the Blues
Read moreSeveral four and five-star releases already, and a boatload of top artists have releases scheduled for later this year – 2014 might wind up as one of the best years for new music in recent memory. Given how many talented artists there are out there making music, pretty much every year is a good year for new releases. Some years,
Read moreDear Parents: if your son goes to college, joins a fraternity and screws up, you could lose your home. Do I have your attention yet? How many times in my adult life have I heard this? YOU were in a fraternity? Yes I was. Theta Chi, Gamma Omicron chapter, Wake Forest University. I know, I don’t fit the stereotype. Neither
Read moreIABC Communicator of the Year has a pattern of bad behavior. I’m not sure “I’m sorry” is enough. We all screw up. When we do, it’s our responsibility to acknowledge it and apologize to those our mistake in someway damaged, hurt, disadvantaged or inconvenienced. Hopefully we learn and move on, never repeating the mistake. But sometimes … sometimes apologies are
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