Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

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I don’t often talk about the University of Kentucky on this site, being a “mostly” Louisville Cardinals fan (and they don’t like it much around here when you’re “both.”  You might as like to try to “borry” from a man’s still instead).   However, UK freshman, SEC “Player of the Year,” “Newcomer of the Year,” and quite possibly [...]

“Joe at the Bridge“
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Whatta day on the site today, no?  
I am thinking of declaring March 15th the “International Day of the Troll” what with deluge of Troll-bags we got on the site today.   Heck, it seems it all started with “Lung Sac” Alvari having a Jungian flame out and almost getting his ass kicked off the site by [...]

 
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Yeah, so I’m the last iBC blogger left in the iBC March Madness Tourney.   It only took me a couple of years of playing, and losing early to realize that a measured, trending, relatively predictable pick beat out a burning comet every time.  In the end, like in life, it’s all about the beta.  Hence Cree, [...]

 
“When a Mere Ass-hat Just Won’t Do”
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Before I talk about this Disco Ball Market, I want to take a second to explain why I love this country and I love going to work every day, despite the imminent Tsar Bomba of Damocles hanging over this economy thanks to the near-brain dead or simply evil (your [...]

“More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” – Allan Stewart Konigsberg
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Woody Allen once said “80% of success is just showing up.” To some extent that’s true, as reliability [...]

Note, upper left corner — “The Perfect Sammich”
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To the chagrin of Bears and cash horders everywhere, the unemployment numbers were magically re-arranged in unicorn land to gallop forth and match the pixie-dust retail fabulations we got yesterday.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to take this moment to thank The Gap Inc. (GPS: 23.30 +1.00%) [...]