The selection committee is packed with idiots. How the hell can they bump Ratzinger all the way down to a SIX SEED?! He’s #1 in the RPI (Ratings Papacy Index) and had a top five strength of schedule. Duke is overrated, as usual.

I xposted my India/Pakistan comments to a few communities, and poldy jumped in on with this: Of the several topics raised here, I would like to turn to the last – the crisis in education. those workers in Bangalore […] were raised in a culture that made funding education a priority in policy while in the US we were making

I am: Arthur C. Clarke Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary. Which science fiction writer are you?

[A brief caveat: this first part isn’t in my primary areas of expertise, so the following is even more open to correctives than most of what I write. Also, this commentary is going to roam far and wide – please bear with me….] India, Pakistan to Revive Joint Business Commission April 17 (Bloomberg) — India and Pakistan agreed to restart

YOU, my friend, are 100% Canadian! You are whatCanadians are all about! (and that’s about, nota boot.) You, my friend, are AWESOME! How Canadian Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

Looks like Chris Paul is going pro. No huge surprise in that. I believe CP3 could do with another year in school, but I can’t say with any conviction at all that another year with Prosser would be better than a year in the NBA. I fear that Skip is letting too many bad habits go uncorrected – you know,

You may have noted that Eric Rudolph, the guy who bombed the Olympics in 1996 and a Birmingham abortion clinic in 1998 (killing one and maiming another) has pleaded guilty in order to avoid the death penalty (and you can contemplate the irony of the “pro-life” warrior passing on a chance to make a real point with his own execution

And don’t you forget it. _______________________________ The Usurper You scored 63% Cardinal, 23% Monk, 20% Lady, and 54% Knight! You have both the lust for war of the Knight and the wicked morals of the Cardinal. You are truly a dangerous one who likes power and will stop at nothing to get it. If the king dares stand in the

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Shining Broadsword of Forgiving Harmony. What’s yours? Verily, I am uncomfortable with the “forgiving” part, but this is the name Brother Unitarian Jihad Name Generating Engine gave me, and he is wise.

Periodically some issue or another flares up in a way that calls to mind how the words we use to describe certain people, groups, and conditions come into and fade out of fashion. For instance, I have been upbraided on occasion by people who don’t like some of the words I use in talking about the disabled. In these cases

drdenny sent this along earier today. Before I launch in, let me note that the following isn’t intended as a scattershot against the whole concept of accountability, and there are people noted in the article that are behaving in what seem to be intelligent ways. That said, there are moments where other kinds of motivations become apparent to the critical

I was thinking yesterday about one of my purposes in founding – the need for us to think our way past “mere partisanship.” Then this morning I noted the 5e post by Brian from daedalnexus and the response from nsingman on the state of our health care system, and it seemed a perfect example of the kind of challenge I

If you haven’t taken the Political Compass test, you really should. For those unfamiliar with the working theory, basically this measure sees the standard left/right dichotomy as being woefully inadequate for explaining the realities of American political life. In their view, you really have to consider both economic and social scales to get a true read on somebody’s orientation. For

WASHINGTON – Two years to the day after Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith was killed defending his unit from an enemy attack near the Baghdad airport, President Bush on Monday presented his family the first Medal of Honor awarded in more than a decade. Story… As you’ve probably noticed, the awarding of the Medal of Honor to Sgt.

I hope whoever replaces Betsy Hoffman at CU speaks English. ___________________________ TO: Boulder Campus Teaching & Research Faculty, Staff, Deans, Directors, Dept Chairs, System Administration FROM: President Hoffman DATE: Monday, April 4, 2005 SUBJECT: Revised APS on Conflict of Interest in Cases of Amorous Relationships Dear CU Community: I am writing to tell you that I have approved a revised