…but he’s completely lost his mind: Lalas told BBC Radio Five Live: “I know over in England there is not a tremendous amount of knowledge and understanding regarding the quality of our league. “We have players playing with David Beckham that are as good as players he has played with or against. “It would not surprise me if at some

From today’s Benton Communications-related Headlines: NET-NEUTRALITY BILL INTRODUCED [SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn] Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced a bipartisan bill Tuesday that would ban cable operators, phone companies and other providers of broadband Internet access from engaging in discriminatory management of their networks to the commercial disadvantage of Web-based providers of content and applications.

Let’s see. One team goes undefeated. And they’re not even allowed to compete for a shot at the championship (they finished fifth, in fact). So once again, the BS BCS has failed to produce a legitimate champion. Do I think Boise could have won it all? No, but I didn’t think they could beat Oklahoma, either. And that’s not even

Another bit of my presidential platform, and this time we’re talking about one of the things that’s really eating at the guts of education: thanks to people who can’t tell the difference between a symptom and a disease, we’re dumping brazilians of dollars into teaching our children to take tests. That these kinds of tests don’t exist in the real

Okay, sirpaulsbuddy can kiss my ass for this one. The rules: go to Pop Culture Madness and find the list of hit songs for the year you turned 18. Copy and paste them into your blog. Strike through the ones you dislike. Italicize the ones you like. Unbold the ones you’re indifferent about. 1979 January 6 – January 19: Too

I’ve been waiting for the Obama = Osama bullshit to start. I just didn’t figure the first shot would be fired by CNN.

Hah – you thought I was going to lead with “raise teacher salaries,” didn’t you? Nope – got to have the organizational context in place first. Read all about it at Dr. Slammy in 2008.

I have hinted recently at upcoming Big News®, and here it is: I’m running for president. Kinda. It’s time we put our future first, and that means getting serious – very serious – about ending the War on Education. We’ve spent decades digging a hole, and if we’re to climb out we’re going to have to rely on the ingenuity

Maybe somebody here can answer this one. Do we know roughly how much money is owed in student loan debt? That is, if you take all of America’s college grads who are paying back their loans, what is that total number? Thanks in advance…

First, check the image. “Happy Holidays,” of course, is a namby-pamby dodge for those who don’t want to acknowledge the “Christ” part of Christmas, right? Now, click here to see the source of the greeting. Happy Holidays, y’all. :xpost:

This just popped up in my e-box:

I figured I’ve put off my best CDs of 2005 list long enough, and major apologies to Jeffrey Dean Foster, whose stunningly brilliant Million Star Hotel deserved more timely praise from me. Here’s a bit of what I have to say in awarding the 2005 Slammy for CD of the Year, and I need to make clear that there’s not

Live, from Metro Denver, Colorado, I got your white christmas right here, bub. Let’s see, where to start. First, the news: State of emergency: Colorado paralyzed, hundreds stranded Now, some images from my own personal narrative. 1: I hope these folks aren’t in any hurry to get to grandma’s house:

I’m awfully proud of my Scottish heritage, which traces to Clans Keith and Campbell (grandma was a Marshall up one side and a Campbell back down the other). I even have a Keith kilt, which I wear on formal occasions. I love fine single malt (the drinking of which I even built into my wedding ceremony) and am the owner

Tomorrow’s CBS Evening News is apparently doing a piece on “blood diamonds” and the African diamond trade. Great stuff, right? Talk about a story that needs covering. So what promted this bit? Ah – glad you asked. It’s a piece on the real life story behind…wait for it…The Movie. And now, here’s Katie Couric… :xpost: