A Good Year for the Outlaw

The way winter went, Diane and I started to wonder if we’d ever see our big new Kewanee lawn again. Man, that was a lot of snow. Almost Minnesota-like, I must say.

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No, not drugs. Never touched ‘em. Rarely drink, never smoked if you don’t count the few “look, I’m cool” cigars I’ve tasted. I chewed a little “tabacky”, when I played baseball, but basically I’m vice free. Except for games.
I like games. Mind games particularly. I spent a lot of time with the Rubik’s Cube when [...]

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Interesting story yesterday about the HOI Fair in Peoria, full of quotes from Eileen Frey, most of which were either not quite the whole story or completely false.
In the story, she says the North Dakota State Fair paid Tim McGraw $425,000 for one show last year. I think that’s a tad high. It might have [...]

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The University of Minnesota has hired Tubby Smith from Kentucky to be their new basketball coach, and personally I’m pretty happy about it.
My favorite school is getting a darn fine coach, needed as they’ve fallen to rock bottom in the Big 10 under Dan Monson and most recently Jim “Offense is Not A Priority” Molinari. [...]

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When did it become okay to just cruise along with your brights on with no regard for oncoming traffic? It happens to me mostly on interstates and divided highways, but that doesn’t make it any less rude.
Dim your lights, you’re not the only freakin’ car on the road.
There are only four types of people [...]

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I just love how the hard line GOP’ers continue to whine about the “angry left” and how democrats and liberals just won’t stop “hating” George Bush.
This from the party that sold bumper stickers in the 1990’s that read “Where is Lee Harvey Oswald when you need him?”
Yeah, that was classy.

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…am I to understand that last week George W. Bush said something bad about one of our high-ranking government officials…and he did it while in MEXICO?!?!?!
That does it, I’m not buying any more of his CD’s.

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In the post I just wrote, the one below this one, I mention the NBA being easier to watch now than college ball.
Which reminded me of the recent discussion I listened to regarding Peoria’s own Shaun Livingston. He’s badly injured right now, and people were saying (was it a radio talk show? I think it [...]

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Anyone in the same boat as me, in not paying any attention whatsoever to college basketball right now? Haven’t watched a game of the tournament(s) – but then, I never watch or care about the NIT – haven’t seen a full game all season, haven’t checked out a box score, didn’t fill out a tourney [...]

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