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Ty Willingham is Leaving - Now What, UW?
As has been widely reported, Tyrone Willingham is stepping down at the end of the season. If you’ve been following UW football at all this year, this is absolutely no shock to anyone. Many folks were surprised that he kept his job after last year, and as the losses piled up the expectations grew that [...]
27Oct2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
Fantasy Football: Week 7 Aftermath and Making Trades
I’m catching up with this, any anyway I got creamed. 63 points in a league where about half the teams cross the century mark each week - yep, ker smackers. What happened?
Nothing happened, that’s what. Barring a bye or two I was starting what should be a 1st string team:
QB - Peyton Manning
WR - Plaxico [...]
The Root of the Problem, Counterfeit Debt
In other posts, I have written long expositions of why we are in a financial crisis. I have decided to write several short posts on the subject as well.
The root of the problem is counterfeit money. I’m sure that’s a statement worthy of a double take for most people, but it is true.
In today’s world, [...]
The Moment of Truth Approaches
Please note: the case for why I believe the following is laid out thoroughly here , here , and then here .
Well, I think the financial crisis is about ready to really get started.
So far, every government response to the crisis has been to make it worse, along with taking on debt. Taking on debt [...]
Saturday Potpourri: Misaligned Priorities
I’ve been a busy boy lately, and believe it or not a lot of it has had to do with this blog. Well, blog network. Sorta thing. Despite the almost complete lack of posting on my part, I’ve:
learned about Wordpress-mu
installed Wordpress-mu
navigated the transition of the one-blog-many-authors model to the many-niche-blogs-feeding-an-uber-blog model
tried to market Ray’s great [...]
Fantasy Football: Week 6 Aftermath
Really, Peyton Manning? Really, Marvin Harrison? I lost by more than you would’ve covered, so thanks for that. :p Yes, the Ceiling Cats are down to 2-4, getting pasted 108-91. Let’s take a look, shall we?
I’m going to stop trying to be clever, because clearly I’m not very good at it. At least, so far [...]
An Object Lesson: How Not to Treat a Depression
It seems that some UCLA professors have figured out why the Great Depression lasted 15 years.
And the answer iiiiss: "F.D.R!"
I am quite scared for the short term future of the USA. I look at the potential presidents we could end up with, and I am faced with either ignorance or mal-education, or both. Let’s hope [...]
A Worrying Development
It seems that banks are now so afraid that their counterparts are insolvent, that they are not accepting letters of credit from other banks. This is a bit like a bank refusing to cash a check because the check draws on the account of another bank.
This is bad, because letters of credit are used as [...]
Fantasy Football: Week 5 Aftermath
Let me paint a picture for you. Yahoo! projected that this week’s game would be a 96-96 tie. Yes, the projections are often wrong, but there’s a consistency in the wrongness that you start to get a feel for after awhile. So no, it wasn’t going to be 96-96, but a pretty high-scoring affair seemed [...]
7Oct2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
An Apology to RSS Subscribers
Hello,
If you’re reading this via your RSS feed, no doubt you’ve been swarmed with "new" content over the last week or so. I’m really sorry about that. What happened is we’ve been moving to a new platform for the blog, and when the old stuff is imported the blog thinks it’s new again. I couldn’t [...]
Thanks for stopping by. :) I imagine the recent news caused more folks like me to do a little research, and your post comes up very early on google (so well done there!).
It's amazing, the things I'm learning about the big, ugly web out there, an
Well, except for me. I just expressed my opinion of the jerks, and now I find folks are linking to that rant. I hope all this attention means criminal charges and prison time for Mccolo's owners etc. In the meantime keep spreading the word about thos
Lisa McSherry mentioned that you're looking for additional bloggers and thought I might suit for reviews and Pagan articles. Shall we discuss possibilities?
Hey John,
Nice to see GU coming along. Your 'proposal' makes a lot more sense now that I can see it in action. Very interesting set-up. I'm monitoring my traffic closely post-election. Merging The Big Stick into a larger network may make more sens
Go 'Dawgs, indeed. Richt's successes are more than admirable, and I've missed the hell out of him at the offensive helm these last eight years. Should be a great game, but I give the edge to the 'Dawgs. Even though Tim Tebow once touched a blind