The Vig

During Rob Neyer’s conversation with Michael Lewis at Powell’s last year, Lewis lamented the fact that tons of people, especially in business, completely missed the point of his book Moneyball.  It wasn’t about finding fat catchers or paying less to get more results.  It was about something much more esoteric.  It was about understanding your [...]

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TeacherRefPoet has a fantastic post up about the difficulty of finding a church home.
And if you must have a praise band…Do NOT…do NOT…do NOT clap on one and three. At one of the churches we tried, everybody did. The band, the minister, the congregation…everyone. They all started at the same time, which led me to [...]

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Once again the basketball side of the house seems to have gone into hyperdrive on draft night and accomplished some things.  Everyone thought Pritchard would zig his way up into the top-five and make a huge splash, instead he zagged right where he was, unloaded the awful Jarrett Jack on an unsuspecting Indiana (payback for [...]

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Jack and Jill Politics bestows a high honor on Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.
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Last week, Dwight Jaynes mentioned there was a surprising and comforting name floating around out there who wanted to “rescue the Hawks”.  This morning, Jaynes comes out with the name.  Brent Peterson.  For those not familiar, he played for the Hawks back in the 70s, coached them in the 90s, winning one Memorial Cup, and [...]

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Both sports talk radio and the interwebs have lately become fascinated with lists.  They’re both easy to create and guaranteed to start a discussion, which, come to think of it, are the goals of both sports talk radio and Web 2.0.  I try to ignore them because they’re pointless, but every now and then one [...]

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Exactly how much electoral trouble is he in?
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I’ll be busy this weekend, otherwise I might make the drive down for sci-fi night at the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes game.  I wonder if Cousin Joe will be there.
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That’s the interest rate on John McCain’s credit card.  For a guy worth married to that much money, you’d think he might have a better rate.  Or a better system to remind himself when the payment is due.
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If you believe their website, the new Hold Steady record drops on July 14th.  Cruising around iTunes Saturday afternoon, I found the new album, Stay Positive, already for sale.  I have no idea why.  Not complaining, mind you, I just don’t understand how any of this works anymore.
Anywho, The Hold Steady will return to The [...]

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