“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” – President Abraham Lincoln
If you’re like me you can’t wait to drink a few pints of Guinness tomorrow. So to get in the spirit here are three clips of The Dubliners. My favorite song is Irish Rover. And if you can’t understand what they’re saying you just aren’t drunk enough. Also, there is new stuff at the Sports and Society page.
You can warm up for the NCAA Tournament brackets by playing the ACC Tournament bracket at SP Sports. There’s no money on the line and I of course picked Duke to win it all so even if you barely put any thought into it, you’ve done more than I have. By the way, both the College of Charleston’s men’s and women’s teams made it to the conference championship only to lose. Tough breaks all around.
Also at the Politics page I’ve got the three video clips in which Jon Stewart derides CNBC and the whole financial ‘reporting’ racket, then responds to Jim Cramer’s response to his criticism, then responds again after Cramer went on that asinine show Mourning Joe to continue defending NBC against Stewart and rational thought.
By the way, Cramer is supposed to be a guest on The Daily Show on Thursday. Be sure to check that out.
As soon as MSNBC hired Rachel Maddow I gave up on them. So check out those videos because they are both funny and pertinent.
I’ve been updating the content sites, but if I don’t tell you about that on this main page it doesn’t do much good. My bad.
On SP Sports I’ve got the video of Christian Laettner hitting his last second miracle shot against Kentucky in ’92 and the new commercial they made about it. Funny stuff unless you’re a Kentucky fan. By the way, if you’re a UK fan are you not pissed about that movie Glory Road? I watched it the other day and I know Rupp was sort of racist but the movie makes him out to be the basketball equivalent of Hitler. Yikes. And overall the movie wasn’t even that good. So as a UK fan you’re faced with an average movie defaming your legendary coach. Tough break.
Also at SP Sports is my open question about how valuable Manny Ramirez is for fantasy baseball. I think he’s a top 10 pick but Yahoo and ESPN fantasy experts disagree with me. Also at some point I’ll do a recap of the Super 14 Rugby weekend (spoiler alert, the Stormers lost AGAIN).
At the Politics page I’ve just posted a clip from the Daily Show and a link to an interview done on the Daily Show. I didn’t just do this to avoid having to think of something, those two clips are worth posting. They basically rip apart the whole financial ‘journalism’ racket. Seriously, watch those clips.
At the Society page I’ve got a thing about horrible movie accents. So go read that, see the list of bad accents in movies I’ve got, add any that I’ve missed, and try to figure out the top three most egregious ones. Fun stuff.
Lastly, after a week off The Procrastinator, the e-newsletter we do with The AD Hall and anyone that we can coerce into writing something, is back. This issue has a great interview, two subpar pieces by yours truly (I think the week off threw me off my game [of course that assumes that I had any game in the first place]), a brain teaser, a thing about the President going to the Wizards game by The Chairman, an NBA poem, and a special guest column by Betsy Neely. So click here to download it in pdf format procrastinator-3-6-09 or just go to this site to view the online archives. Whatever you do give it a read because there’s something in there for everybody and we put effort into it (even it sometimes doesn’t show, haha).
And if you want to comment about it, volunteer to write something for it, or just tell us to stop emailing you leave a comment in this box or email the people on the newsletter directly.
Since there is no Duke game tonight I figured some of you may like to watch LOST. So here’s a little video about what has been happening on the show so far.
My broken figure never healed so I’m once again forced to type with my right ring and middle fingers taped together. Please forgive any typos.
At the Society page I’ve instituted The Stormy Present Book Club. I’m trying to read 12 books this year. So lets all recommend good books we’ve read so that none of us waste time or money on a book that sucks. Also the thing about whether or not public officials should voluntarily take a pay cut is under that post.
At the Politics page there is a post about the economic situation that I cannot summarize. Just take a look at it and leave your thoughts.
At SP Sports I’ve got the week 3 results for Super 14 Rugby. Below that there is a link to Bill Simmons’ article about the NBA being in financial trouble. It’s the best article he’s ever written. Enjoy.
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