A Good Year for the Outlaw

I know, I know, don’t blog about work. But I’m so excited about this weekend, I’ve got to print our radio stations’ schedule:
Friday night on CD107.9 and cd1079.com:
 7pm – Mt. Zion (6-3) at Dunlap (8-1), 4A. Dave Murphy and either Rob Paullin or Rich Draeger on PBP. Live reports from North Fulton (7-2) at Lexington [...]

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Over at Knight’s site, there was a discussion about schools last week. They’re also talking about it as it relates to sports over the Journal Star sports message boards.
I wrote a long response over at Knight’s place, I wanted to put it over here as well. If you check the link to the PJS board, [...]

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Making fun of bad punctuation has always been a pastime of mine, and apparently this blog’s owner as well.

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Sometimes it’s amazing to find out who you’re related to.

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Win, lose, or draw (the Vikings got lucky and won today), Brad Childress is the worst head coach currently in the NFL, and maybe the worst ever. And trust me, as a former Minnesota Viking fan, I’ve seen some bad (Jerry Burns), idiotic (Dennis Green) and incompetent (Les Steckel) coaches in my life.
If Bud Grant [...]

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The above headline is dripping with sarcasm. Lovely story yesterday in the Chicago Tribune.
But I’m not worried, because I know our wise and environmentally friendly adminstration in Washington will step in and…um, er, ah…
never mind.

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Go to Brad’s Blog and read this.

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There are lots of cars that you see on the road and say to yourself, “need to stay away from that one” or “got to get in front of that one real quick”. People ask me why I pass so often, particularly on two-lane roads. A lot of it has to do with more than [...]

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I’ve added a new link on the blogroll, to a good website about the sport of hockey.
Check out the site Pro Hockey News.

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Wow. Surfing around in the interest of self-education tonight and I find this heartwarming story. (sarcasm)
So 57% of all guns manufactured world wide every year end up in the U.S. Gun owners are soooo abused here, aren’t they? Um, people, I think we have enough.
Lots of people think we have “enough” things, like teachers, funding [...]

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Did anybody else see James Spader’s character deliver his closing arguments Tuesday night on Boston Legal?
Yes, it’s a TV show. Yes, it’s fiction. But the writers of that show have a way of writing to today’s topics and having their characters make tremendous social arguments. And Spader – as Alan Shore - ripping to shreds the idiotic movement that [...]

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Police find arsenal in kid’s house before he gets to kill.
Oh, here’s the most disgusting part:
The weapons included a 9 mm assault rifle that the teenager’s mother had recently bought for him, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. said. Prosecutors are reviewing her actions.

Then, of course, there’s this part:
Also discovered were seven explosive [...]

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Students tried to warn staff at the Cleveland alternative High School that was the scene of yet another scary shooting incident.
“Armed with two revolvers”, the story says, as well as “had a history of mental problems” and “he was talking about doing it last week”. Oh, and don’t forget, “He seemed like an angry young [...]

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Check out this dude:
 
No, not the guy, the fish! A 29-pound Asian Carp. Caught in Illinois? Nope. Try Minnesota.
Minnesota hasn’t seen (fortunately) many of these beasts, this one was caught in a wide area of the Mississippi called Lake Pepin, near Lake City, about 40 miles from where I grew up. At Lake Pepin, the Mississippi [...]

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And it is….

Carpoolers.
On ABC, Tuesdays. Two weeks into this show, I’m totally into it. The characters are all memorable (even two of the four guys’ wives and one of their sons), and the jokes are funny and quick. Of course, the opening credits of the first show should have told me this show was going [...]

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Peoria’s new-look, blazing fast Rivermen are 2-0 and look like they could live up to their press clippings. I highly recommend you get to the PCC and see this team before some of these guys are inevitably called up to St. Louis or traded. Martin Kariya (Paul’s brother) had 3 goals over the opening weekend, [...]

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Another white guy, another legally obtained gun (he was a police officer!), another six senseless deaths. When you count the gunman, the total rises to 7.
Wisconsin horror.
When is it going to stop? When are we, as a society, going to open our eyes and grow up? Amazing. Sickening. But “don’t take away my gun”, right? Whatever.

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News came today that Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico) is retiring due to a degenerative brain condition. In his own words, he said he had concluded that it would be wrong to seek re-election if he could not pledge that he could ably complete another six-year term.
Mr. Domenici’s voting record shows he’s pro-business, pro-life, anti-public health, anti-senior citizen, [...]

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It’s always laughable to read letters to the PJS editor complaining about their “liberal” attitudes and their left-leaning ways. The PJS is far from a left wing paper. Far.
Take, for instance, today. On A1, above the fold, in bold headline, we find that the Death Tolls Are Down In Iraq. The story is a good [...]

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I did my impression of the Cubs making the playoffs this week at work: I walked backwards down the hall.
Anyway, while you guys go ga-ga for simply making the postseason, enjoy this list of teams that have made the postseason at least 4 times in this decade already:
Boston Red Sox; New York Yankees; California Angels; Atlanta Braves; St [...]

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