Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
Last week’s Washington Post Magazine had a great story about Tom Murphy, a more or less homeless guy who spends his time in D.C.’s Dupont Circle hustling chess games and giving lessons.
If you’re at all interested in the world’s greatest thinking game, it’s a must read. Below is a video clip teaser for the article:
The Clinton campaign must be licking their chops today, because Senator Barack Obama just proved that he’s at least as crazy as Howard Dean. In a speech to a Greenville, South Carolina church today (I’m assuming he was the “guest preacher?”), Sen. Obama set forth his true ambitions: He finished his brief remarks by saying, … Read more
Vols 35, Bulldogs 14 Defense. The running game. Tennessee football has returned to Rocky Top, and it feels good. Of course it always feels good to beat Georgia. To my great surprise, the Vol coaching staff must have actually turned the last two weeks into an entire summer program. Does this mean Phillip Fulmer is … Read more
Top 5 Things Every Extrovert Should Know About Introverts
BusinessWeek ranks the 25 most influential people on the web
WSJ’s John Fund on “Rude” Giuliani, the candidate who answers his cell phone when he’s talking to you.
News of the duh: Study: Boys and men worry less
This weekend, I watched a re-run 2005 episode of Nova on PBS which chronicled the conservation of the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The painstaking restoration of our nation’s founding documents was a worthy subject of documentary, and I’m glad I watched it. As with most documentaries these days, the narrator gave the … Read more
Vols 48, Indians 27 Now that Tennessee has defeated the Arkansas State “former Indians,” the Vols are now 2-2. Things are back on the upswing, right? If it were only that easy. The Vols did good to win today, but the real story of this weekend were the tough games played by Arkansas, South Carolina, … Read more
ISI has just released the results of its American Civic Literacy Quiz. Apparently the average score for college seniors was 50.4%. Couldn’t be that bad, I thought. So I took the test. Yikes. It’s a little tougher than those Jay Leno, “man on the street” quizzes. I thought I aced the thing, only to find … Read more