As the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saint prepare to play a near-incomprehensible sporting match against one another, the rest of us prepare for a descent into hell. As if sitting through the sport with so many rules, replay challenges, and mind-numbing length that only the world’s most litigious civilization could love was not hell [...]
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Our Super Bowl Inferno…
by Steven Maloney on Saturday, January 30th 2010 2 Comments
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Back with something fun
by Steven Maloney on Wednesday, July 9th 2008 No Comment
If you haven’t seen wherethellismatt, then it is a pretty fun youtube clip. NYT has an article on the story behind our global goofy-dancer.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY]
Ach! Me Retirement Grease!
by Steven Maloney on Friday, May 30th 2008 No Comment
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I can’t pass this one up… the NYT has an article on how rising oil prices have created a rash of grease-siphoning for profit ventures behind restaurants across America. Nice to see that our policies have created subplots that are retreads of old The Simpsons episodes.
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