2008’s Works in Progress

This blog regularly goes through dry spells. During many of those, i start posts that never get completed for one reason or another. Today i went through eleven drafts of blogs i started last year and never published and decided that today i was going to publish all of them just as they are (except [...]

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The i Before You Except After me

If i remember correctly, in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury suggests that the beginning of the end was when people stopped building front porches on their houses.  That led to a lack of communication with neighbors and more time spent by one’s self, leading to walls of televisions in order to stay entertained.  I argue that [...]

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Back-Breaking MVP Performances, Angels Trapped on Earth, and The Most Boring Game of Futbol Ever

Heard this morning on ESPN’s formerly-known-as-Cold-Pizza First Take show:
“During that time, Alex Rodriguez literally carried the team on his back.”
Really? Really, incredibly successful baseball analyst? A-Rod literally carried an entire team of professional athletes on his back? In that case, I have no problem whatsoever with him being nearly unanimously voted the [...]

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