Archive for July, 2007
Houston Cougars Gear Up for New Season, First New QB in 4 Years
Kevin Kolb started 50 consecutive games as quarterback for the University of Houston, third most in NCAA history, and closed his career ranked first at UH in yards (12,964), attempts (1,565) and completions (964), and second to David Klingler with 85 touchdown passes. Now Kolb is off to the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles and […]
BBC Radio 4, The 1933 U.S. Coup
Fascinating. Nothing I’d ever heard of before. Visit the BBC site and listen to the entire radio segment. Realplayer required.
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. […]
Church Signs
For your entertainment this sabbath morn - Signs From God: The curious history of church marquees. See the slideshow at the end of the article.
Also Church Sign Smack Down, The Baptist Church sign and the Catholic Church sign get into it.
Moose
My friend Shaun captured this footage of a Bull Moose they encountered in White Mountain National Forest on their way to Montreal. This part is priceless:
The moose was unbelievably relaxed, just browsing along as we all snapped photos and watched him. I took the camera and creeped down into the woods with him to get […]
Inprint Brown Reading Series 2007-08 season lineup announced
The Inprint Brown Reading Series season lineup has been announced. My personal highlights include Michael Chabon and Dave Eggers, founder of publishing house McSweeney’s whose Internet Tendency is a daily read. See the Inprint Houston website for more information.
Houston Chronicle: Inprint Brown Reading Series
• Oct. 15: Richard Powers and Jennifer Egan. Powers (The Gold Bug […]
Bryan Caplan Asks Why Anyone Should Bother to Vote
He goes a bit further, in fact, and wonders why you bother to vote, and hopes you won’t actually. Caplan is an economist at George Mason University and co-author of Marginal Revolution, by far my favorite economics blog. In his new book The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (amazon), he […]
Hilarious Airline Complaint
A hapless passenger stuck in a… ahem.. crappy seat in on Continental Airlines Flight 888 out of Houston took the opportunity to make her feelings known to the airline.
Gadling: Hilarious Hand-Written Airline Complaint
Best Political Quote I’ve Heard in a While, from Ron Paul
“Politicians don’t amount to much,” he says, “but ideas do.”
The New York Times Magazine profiled the Texas Congressman in The Antiwar, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Drug-Enforcement-Administration, Anti-Medicare Candidacy of Dr. Ron Paul.