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Monthly Archives September 2006

Nice weather we’re having

From the latest Democracy Corps memo: As we saw in August, voters have an overwhelmingly negative outlook on the way things are going in the country. In fact, people across eight focus groups had a hard time identifying anything good that is happening in the country. When pushed to say something positive, these undecided voters [...]

Posted 28 September 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Cessate!

A friend back in Pittsburgh shares this surprising bit of news: Allegheny County Council last night voted overwhelmingly to prohibit smoking in restaurants, bars and other workplaces, moving the legislation into the hands of the chief executive for approval. “We’re going to go from the smoky city to a smoke-free city,” council President Rich Fitzgerald [...]

Posted 27 September 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (3) °

Save it

So, this week, this happened: In the span of 18 hours and two appearances that rocked Petco Park, Trevor Hoffman might have earned more than just first place on baseball’s all-time saves list. With saves No. 478 and 479 secured in front of raucous crowds in the San Diego Padres’ final two regular-season home games, [...]

Posted 26 September 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Roommates

Here is something I just learned: Giants Stadium and the Meadowlands, home of the New York Giants and New York Jets, respectively, are different names for the same place.

Posted 25 September 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °

Original-content-free* Friday!

Many weblogs have weekly traditions. TBogg and others have the Friday Random Ten. Kos has Science Friday. Michael Bérubé has Arbitrary But Fun Friday (and Theory Tuesday and Rhetorical/Liberal Thursday — the man is a machine). All the cool kids do it. Well, now I’ve got mine.** Several weeks ago, I published a one-off feature [...]

Posted 22 September 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °