Monthly Archives: October 2011

Pac 12 Power Rankings: Week 8

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A shake-up at the top of the BCS rankings could benefit the Pac-12, but there was plenty of shake-up to go around here at home too. Meanwhile, Larry Scott and the Pac-12 watch with amusement as the rest of the country is in the grips of the latest rounds of Conferencemageddon. 1. Stanford (7-0, 5-0 Pac-12) LW: 1 The Cardinal… Read more »

Wake up the echoes

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Wow, it’s been more than two weeks since I blogged anything?!? Not counting my November 2008-June 2009 hiatus, that has to be a record dating back to 2002, no? Anyway, sorry, I’ve been really busy, and what free time I’ve had for the Interwebs has been going toward Twitter instead. But look! A pretty picture of Notre Dame Stadium at… Read more »

Pac-12 Power Rankings Week 6

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The Rankings had a BYE last week as I was out of town helping my brother and sister-in-law pack up and move. Check out the rankings below.

My latest meta-political tweet-rant

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Last night, inspired by the generally unsatisfying, incomplete, and often vacuous nature of the tweets I keep seeing from both Left and Right about the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and the ongoing economic calamity — and also by this National Review article, among other big-picture economic pieces I’ve read recently — I went on another one of my extended Twitter… Read more »

R.I.P., Steve Jobs

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Apple co-founder, chairman and (until very recently) CEO Steve Jobs, whose inventions repeatedly changed the world as we know it, died today of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 56. His death prompted massive news coverage (totally overshadowing Sarah Palin’s decision not to run for president) and an overwhelming outpouring of public grief more typical of a head of state’s… Read more »