Informed Speculation

One of the great moments of my life was seeing my favorite band U2 (sorry, Stones, you’re a strong number 2, but still number 2) on the 4th show of the Joshua Tree tour in Houston on April 7, 1987 (you can see the setlist here).  What I remember more than anything was the total familiarity [...]

I don’t know what this means for my beloved Red Raiders and their shot at the New Year’s Day Gator Bowl, but #1 Missouri is in danger of falling, and #2 West Virginia is gone.  Both teams had merely to win to make the BCS Title Game, but merely winning has been almost impossibly difficult [...]

If the stakes weren’t so high, the recent headlines surrounding John Murtha would be downright hilarious in their illustration of Pelosi’s Principles of Partisanship.  John Murtha just got back from Iraq and said a quite remarkable thing, given his history on the war: Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) acknowledged that the surge of U.S. troops in [...]