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A Conversation with God re: The Lucky New York Giants

2009-07-21T23:42:00.015-04:00

ForewordAfter catching the Giant's first touchdown of Super Bowl XLII, David Tyree counted his blessings. In an ulcerous fourth quarter, he caught a perfect bullet from Eli Manning down the middle of the end zone, putting the Giants up 10-7. Of course, he was the immediate subject of a Fox cameraman, who probably wasn't sure who had just caught the touchdown.With the game ball held aloft, Tyree

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Iran Knows: Republicans Want Obama to Fail in the Middle East, Too

2009-06-24T22:44:00.018-04:00

Back during the campaign, then-Senator Joe Biden guaranteed that Obama would soon face an "international crisis, a generated crisis," one designed to "test [his] mettle." After North Korea, prophetic proof came again in the form of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, freshly returned as president with damning evidence of election fraud.But I wonder: is Obama's true test coming from Iran, or actually from

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Buyers Be Aware: The Real Apple Premium

2009-06-10T22:27:00.017-04:00

Luxury goods come at a high price. By being remarkably superior to the competition, consumers are willing to pay a cost premium simply because they merit the price. Apple revels in this business model, etching out a powerful niche in the PC market against which rivals cannot yet hope to compete.Most Mac users testify to a peerless computing experience. Spurning the headache that is Windows,

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A Spengler Exposé

2009-05-20T22:47:00.005-04:00

Several times in this blog, I have taken on Spengler's writings as inspiration for my own. David P Goldman, a religious American Jew writing under the pseudonym Spengler for Asia Times Online, recently lifted his veil after a decade of closeted commentary.For all his controversial, incendiary and often conceited opinions, it is not surprising he chose to remain anonymous. As a result, I've been

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2009 NY Giants and the Plaxico Trap

2009-05-18T22:15:00.005-04:00

Many people think the Giants are doomed if they don't replace Plaxico Burress with a big time veteran wide receiver. Not just fans, but a majority of mainstream media, beat writers and their like have published strong opinions to that effect. I thought so too, for a time.It is easy to see why people would think so, seeing as how Plax's blunder cost his team the 2008 post season. But it is

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And The Next American Idol Is.. Yourself? Yay?

2009-05-05T01:19:00.012-04:00

For anyone interested in a scathing thesis on why American Idol is so popular, and its implications for Western culture at large, I recommend a courageous read.The day is gone when a smile and a shoeshine will get you a shot at the American dream, but a smile and a song can still get you a chance at instant stardom. More than ever, audiences in the West validate their own mediocrity by crowning

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Miss Cali Thinks Gay Marriage Is Not Right, But Does That Make It Wrong?

2009-04-23T12:02:00.008-04:00

Miss California made a fatal gaffe at the venerable Miss USA pageant, or did she? Basically she stood up and gave her honest opinion on gay marriage, saying she was brought up to believe that marriage "should be between a man and a woman." Respectable an opinion as that is, her response became red meat for partisans on both sides of the issue.See for yourself.The general public's response to

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GM in America, Land of the Subprime?

2009-04-08T10:20:00.002-04:00

The joke is on us. If you thought the subprime mortgage market collapse was "funny," then the auto market collapse is even funnier. GM, as it turns out, was no less subprime than home owners in Arizona who borrowed beyond their means. Like Washington, our bankruptcy-bound automaker had presided over a business model running almost entirely on debt.They call it 'borrowing,' but in reality Wall

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Part 1 - AIG Bonuses Are Immoral, But That Is a Good Thing

2009-03-24T15:35:00.013-04:00

Anger can be therapeutic, so can drama. Therapy, however, does not always diagnose accurately. Especially when the therapist is a politician, we should all know better. The mad drama surrounding the AIG bonuses is such that one is hard pressed to separate reality from truth.I juxtapose truth and reality because, in reality, there is every reason to demonize AIG and Wall Street. After all, the

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Sitting President Sits with Jay Leno: A Post-Partisan Act

2009-03-18T16:47:00.009-04:00

Thursday night, Obama sits in with Jay Leno. Some see this as good, some bad, and most say risky at the least. These are all legit opinions except that they are all irrelevant. I argue that Obama's choice was a matter of necessity, if he is intent on proving his commitment to the promise of "changing" Washington.Obama's appearance, unprecedented for a sitting president, gives him an

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Part 2 - Post-Partisan Politics Defined: Descrambling Obama's Rhetoric

2009-02-17T23:04:00.008-05:00

Most mainstream commentators have so far confused Obama's hypnotic suggestion of post-partisan politics with some kind of imminently polite, new-age bipartisan politics. They did so because, like all politicians, Obama praised bipartisanship by making the standard cookie-cutter pledges to "reach across the aisle" as president.It is with great skill that he did so with a straight face because

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Part 1: Obama's Post-Partisan Vision and the Unspoken Promise

2009-02-13T01:19:00.011-05:00

President Obama is a man who understands the power of unspoken words. Although his powerful rhetoric seems to reveal so much on the surface, he is able to deftly veil his inner ideological core from unwanted eyes probing for weaknesses to exploit. Certainly his political enemies tried and repeatedly attacked him as an "empty suit" throughout the campaign for his hair-raising oratories. It

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Bonus Time! The Party on Wall Street Isn't Over JUST Yet

2009-01-30T00:53:00.009-05:00

Despite having run the economy into the ground, bankers still know exactly how important they are. Ironically, the TARP bailout has all but reinforced their self-importance instead of slapping them on the wrist. Why? Wall Street understands that we need them more than they need us.It's 3:30am, the party isn't over yet. They know they can get their huge bonuses today for precisely the same

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Are You Wii-Fit to Run? I'm Not

2009-01-25T16:29:00.003-05:00

I have this nagging suspicion that running in place in Wii Fit might actually be more strenuous than actual running around. Now, I disclose that I'm terrifically out of shape, but surely I should be able to run around for six minutes before collapsing in a fit of exhaustion more or less completely drenched!I realize I'm not comparing apples to apples, but please entertain my conceit. Could it

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2007-08 NY Giants: Loose Threads, and a Tapestry of the Lost Post Season

2009-01-23T12:37:00.010-05:00

You may consider this post therapeutic, a catharsis of sorts. With the Super Bowl fast approaching, it's high time for me to reconcile the 2008 Giants and let go of what could surely have been. Throughout the football season, the Giants showcased themselves as a team more tightly-knit than most others in 2008. As I asserted in my previous post, they were standard bearers who proved their

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George W Bush? Fail, but There's More

2009-01-14T22:16:00.032-05:00

I don't think the subject of this post requires a preamble but if you want one, Reuters can help.Although his presidency doesn't expire for another week, I've long been done reflecting on Bush the man as we've known him for eight memorable years. I suspect many of you have as well, if for nothing else than to turn the page sooner than fate allows. Even the media got a clue and avoided Bush

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Eagles vs Giants: As Fate Would Have It

2009-01-06T01:28:00.026-05:00

Boy the Giants are spoiling us this season. On wild card weekend, I was able to just kick back and delight in eight teams demolishing each other. Pure football fun, without the anxiety that comes with being a fan. Don't get me wrong though, fandom is great but I could really use a break after the past couple months of Giants football. That's probably just what the Giants players were thinking too

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Part 1: Our Anemic Economy, the Question of How Versus Why

2009-01-05T21:35:00.008-05:00

In his inspired article the anonymous columnist Spengler at Asia Times Online looks at why the state of our economy is as it is. His commentary is refreshing because he examines the question of 'why', not the mainstream question of 'how'. For instance, most people today understand that our economy ran on a hollow and deep sub-prime housing bubble, and that's -how- our lifeblood of capitalism had

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