A Good Year for the Outlaw

I posted this last night, but it didn’t take:
How ’bout those Gophers? 42-35 double OT thriller over then-#11 Purdue! Biggest win in Glen Mason’s nine years (has it been that long already?!?!) in Minny.
The Gophers improve every year under Mason, but always seem to make mistakes and collapse at bad times. In the last [...]

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Boy, does the NFC North look weak again. I didn’t think it would be that way, but right now it is. Minnesota got a win today, but they needed to bury the Saints about 45-7. It was 24-0 late in the first, and then 24-16 midway through the fourth quarter. Ouch. Much improvement needed.

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You go to a Chevy dealer to buy a car, not plywood.
You go to Home Depot to buy plywood, not a Chevy.
You go to Berean Bookstore to buy a bible, not a Penthouse.
You go to Swinger’s World to buy a Penthouse, not a bible.
You go to Aggatucci’s to buy pizza, not get your hair cut.
You [...]

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I’m late on this, but that makes me no less pissed. So I’ll bring it up again.
These pharmacists know damn well what their job will entail when they go to school for it. Insubordination. Plain and simple.
The complaint against the West Peoria Walgreens, located in Peoria at the time of the March 8 [...]

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Right now, with Katrina’s carnage and the impending carnage of Rita, right now would be a good time for Congress to get into action and take back all that pork they just doled out in the transportation bill. Step up, Dennis Hastert. Step up, Ray LaHood, let’s get that money back to Washington so it [...]

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Diane and I just had a tour of the St. Jude’s Midwest Affiliate at St. Francis tonight. As an employee of WXCL, where we host the St. Jude’s Country Cares For Kids Radiothon every year, I can assure you that these people do amazing work for kids and their families. And this coming Monday, [...]

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A letter today from the Star Trib nails it:
Given the (unsurprising) news of Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney’s marriage annulment just four months after their widely publicized romance and beach wedding (Star Tribune, Sept. 17), I wonder: Perhaps to preserve the sanctity of marriage we need a constitutional amendment banning celebrities, and not gays, from [...]

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My Twins are out of it. I don’t like this young Cleveland team. Arrogant, cocky, needs to be knocked down a notch. I’m rooting for the Sox, if only to further torment Cub fans.
Sox need to turn it on for two weeks. They need to do what got them to 90 wins quicker than [...]

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CNN.com’s instant poll this morning:
If you were living in the projected path of Hurricane Rita, would you evacuate?
Change the word “would” to “could”. Then you’d have a relevant question.

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So the Chicago WNBA team will be called the “Sky”.
Wow, that really represents the city of Chicago. When I think of The Windy City, “Sky” is the first thing that comes to mind. Not. How often can you even see the sky when you’re in Chicago? Plus, they made the team colors light blue [...]

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If you’re a NASCAR (or “NAZICAR”, as I prefer to call the sanctioning body) fan, you know who Mike Helton is. And as such, you also know the five word headline to this post is redundant, as Mike Helton has become the definition of “idiot”.
After a rather exciting show Sunday that saw some tempers flare, [...]

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In today’s Minneapolis Star-tribune, there was this gem:
As a Democrat, I would like to add my support to Rep. John Kline’s effort to put President Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill (Star Tribune, Sept. 17). I think we should make them collectors’ items and only issue 33,442,554,240 of them.
Why 33.4 billion? Simple; that is [...]

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The new WNBA (Women’s NBA) franchise in Chicago is having a press conference today to announce their new name and logo. The team’s president, Margaret Stender, says they are presenting a name that “truly represents the City of Chicago”.
That got the gears turning in my huge noggin. Let’s see, we all know White Sox, [...]

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This story ran on the front page of the PJStar Monday.
Why?
What is the PJStar’s obsession with running religious-based stories on the front page? Isn’t there a section on Sundays for this crap?
BTW, who else thinks these people are not only doing things “differently”, but they’re also a little touched in the head?

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About three years ago, I worked for a short while in Princeton, Illinois, driving up from my place in Morton every morning. I explored different routes…I’m anal that way, I like to know many ways to get somewhere…and found tiny Tiskilwa, Illinois. I found, at that time, while I would have to pay $1.19 per [...]

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PJStar article on Taser guns today.
Wow. I’m glad everyone is having so much fun playing with these things. Damn, we’re a war-loving, violence-loving country, aren’t we? Thugs want to fight outside of bars to show how tough they are, police want to shoot high voltage through their bodies.
Why can’t we all just get along? [...]

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I make no bones about the fact I despise most of what the NFL stands for. From the ridiculous number of commercial breaks to the choreographed TV presentations to the legalized assault and battery that’s committed every game to greedy players and equally greedy owners and obnoxious fans, the NFL is NOT where it’s at [...]

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I always want the Minnesota Twins to win. If they can’t, I allow myself to root for the White Sox on occasion. I know, I know, same division, how can you do that? Simple. Same reason I want the Vikings, then the Packers, to win. As long as it isn’t the Bears or Cubs getting [...]

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A letter to the editor in last week’s Sporting News wonders why “with gas prices skyrocketing in this country, shouldn’t the ’sport’ of auto racing be banned?”
First of all, let me address his inference that racing is not a sport (as evidenced by the little quotations aroudnd that word). Auto racing is a sport. Period. [...]

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Another letter in the USA Today this morning blasts Ray Nagin (justified), but makes sure to identify him as a Democrat (political partisanship). This is not the first, nor will it be the last, letter that can’t wait to include the word “Democrat” and “blame” to take the heat off of the Bushies.
Again, for the [...]

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Jon Stewart and his astute staff at The Daily Show nailed Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn tonight.
Stewart started his story about the John Roberts Supreme Court hearings with some quotes from Democrats (Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy), and jokes about them. Then he moved onto Coburn, showing the freshman from Oklahoma apparently choking back tears as [...]

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Why don’t we get the ball rolling RIGHT NOW? It’s probably too late to change the congressional district boundaries for 2006, but for 2008, changes need to be made. I’ve long been aware of the partisan maps that are drawn up. But I broke out the map of just District 17 the other night, and [...]

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As I said in an earlier post, the older hockey players are finding they can’t get back into NHL game-shape. 44-Year old Mark Messier called it quits today, meaning that five of the six most experienced players in terms of games played through 2004 will not be back.
Net savings to the owners? 20+ million. [...]

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From the USA Today this morning, OpEd. It speaks for itself:
The editorial.
An excerpt:
“Jose Padilla, who was born in New York and grew up in Chicago, landed at O’Hare airport more than three years ago and hasn’t been seen since. He disappeared into a succession of jails and military prisons without being charged with a crime, [...]

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We should never forget who “started this”.
We should also send a memo to Washington, because it’s not us who’ve forgotten who started it.

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