Chelsea 1, Arsenal 1. Post match thoughts: Lampard…open net…HOW?! HOW?! AAAAIIIIIGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! No, Sheva isn’t producing results. Then again, maybe if he’d get a service every once in awhile. I say this as a Chelsea fan: Drogba is the worst diver in English football. If he were any worse he’d be Portuguese. Will somebody please, please, ban him for a couple

This popped up in my Edupage e-mailer: STUDY OF LAPTOP USE ON CAMPUS FINDS MIXED RESULTS Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found that although laptop-using students have more flexibility in when and where they study and spend more time on assignments than students who visit computer labs, their academic work shows no measurable improvement. Both groups of students get approximately

sigmundfreude – [SIG-mund-FROI-duh] – noun: taking satisfaction or pleasure in someone else’s psychosexual development And now, back to William Shatner and Show Me the Money.

The NFL’s position in the Hollis Thomas case (Thomas’ asthma medicine causes drug policy violation) seems to be saying that you’re not welcome in the league if you have really bad asthma. Look, I’m all for keeping the game clean, but if I’m Thomas, me and my lawyer are currently having a serious chat about suing the league under the

The walls are bleeding. Dogs and cats are living together. A winter storm has paralyzed Hell. What can it all mean? I saw my first Wake Forest game when I was six. My lifelong dream was to be a Deac, and I realized that dream when I earned my degree in 1984. But you know, it was never about football,

You know, when I’m looking for coherent, thoughtful analysis and opinion on important socio-political issues, I’ve learned to steer clear of anything involving the words “Baptist” and “Texas.” (No offense to the literally dozens of rational Texans out there, most of who seem to live in Austin, a town I keep hearing great things about.) Imagine my surprise when I

Many of you may remember my innovative reality show idea from several weeks back, Chimp My Ride. The concept was as simple as it was brilliant: each week, a lucky but unwitting average American has his/her car tricked out by a garage full of chimpanzees. Can you smell the revenue? Well, the Ca$h Ma¢hin€ is back, folks, with three new

We’ve seen a bit of this lately: Mel Gibson launches anti-Semitic tirade, then says “Please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot.” Michael Richards executes carpet N-bombing run on black hecklers, then says “I’m not a racist. That’s what’s so insane about this.” Ajax striker Kenneth Perez racially abuses a linesman during

I don’t much care for Jesse Jackson. I have no problems with self-promotion, but I’m not really down with people who do so under the pretense of working for a Noble Cause®. Not many causes in the US are more noble than civil rights. That’s pretty much how I’ve always seen Jesse – a guy who’s willing to step up

Earl Weaver and Jim Palmer were doing commentary on a game some years back when Earl got to talking about how hard it was to manage a team. Palmer cut him off. “What are you talking about, Earl? You had me, McNally, Cuellar and Dobson. That’s 80 wins right there. All you had to do was figure out how to

If you’ve been reading about the whole Michael Richards meltdown (and damn, what a world-class meltdown it was) but haven’t actually seen it, remember, we live in a world with ubiquitous portable videocams and YouTube. Michael Richards goes apeshit on two black hecklers. He then appears on Letterman to apologize. The t-shirt. Is this a career-ender? Who knows. Maybe in

First Jim Mora (Sr.) calls Mike Vick a “coach killer.” “It worries me a little bit because my son is the head coach down there,” Mora added. “But he’s a great athlete, my son likes him a lot, he’s a good kid. But he’s not a passer. And you need a passer at quarterback to be successful consistently in the

Okay kids, we’re going to go around the table and everybody is going to say what they’re thankful for. Except instead of doing what we normally do, where we say the appropriate and expected things (like I’m thankful for my family, which may be sort of true, but what you’re probably mostly thankful for is that your family lives in

This is my new hero. Never mind being smarter than most dogs, he’s smarter than most people…..

Thanks to everybody who responded (either here or via e-mail) to my query about the iconic symbol representing humanism. There were a number of interesting ideas, and some fairly creative thinking, as well. I said in that post that I had an idea already about what I thought an answer might be, and the leading response from you guys sort