Monday, November 7, 2011

BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING ELSE, A WORD FROM LSUFREEK ON LSU/BAMA

You gotta love Spencer Hall's coverage of LSU and Les Miles (big shout out to LSUFREEK as well).


BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING ELSE, A WORD FROM LSUFREEK ON LSU/BAMA:


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It's fun to watch LSU out-Saban Saban. You hate offense? Oh, we really hate offense. We hate offense more than you'll ever hate offense, Nick Saban. We hate offense so much we'll put Jordan Jefferson in at quarterback, but first let Jarrett Lee throw two picks just to give you what you want in the form of turnovers, but then take it away with good defense and suffocating your precious run game. We hate offense so much we kill both yours AND ours. That's how much we want to ironically be you, but even better.


We will even out-Saban you on defense, flying to the ball, confusing you with mixed coverages, just assstomping your running backs (don't care IF they embarrassed Ole Miss whatever dude) and even getting some pressure on your precious hipster quarterback. BUT WAIT HERE'S THE FUN PART: we'll even give you freebies just to watch you fuck up your own game. Trent Richardson? On some plays we won't even cover him. Nope, we'll just let him slide through untouched just to watch you miss him on open throws.


Words exist for this. Cruelty? Certainly. Irony? Oh, in buckets. Boredom? Perhaps, but if you want to fight a suffocation bout for the title, well, LSU is all too happy to offer up its own neck and see who passes out first in a strangulation match, Nick Saban. Madness? Sure, but there is another word encompassing all of the above in a single compact unit of meaning: MILES.








Saturday, November 5, 2011

Concert review: Ben Folds supports symphony, captivates fans - NewsOK.com

It was quite a show.

Concert review: Ben Folds supports symphony, captivates fans - NewsOK.com:

Concert review: Ben Folds supports symphony, captivates fans
NewsOK.com
BY GEORGE LANG In a sold-out concert Thursday night at the Civic Center Music Hall, Ben Folds possibly set a new standard for pops performances with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Folds was tireless, from the first notes of “Zak and Sara” to the final ...

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Financial integrity

I think Walter Russel Mead has it about right here:

Finance is inevitably and properly going to play a big role in American life going forward. The cultivation of a high standard of morality among those who engage in this vital function is something our society must insist upon. We have done a lamentably poor job of creating a culture of honesty and integrity among the financial elite; the costs of this failure are ruinous and things have to change.

We're a long way from this and it has cost us.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

It's alive...

And returning from the dead.

Since Google removed the "shared" links from Reader, I will be sending shared items here. Old stuff is linked to the right.