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ELECTION WEEK 2008 As we approach this current four year cycle's
Day of Reckoning, our Senior Political Correspondent gives us his fearless forecast regarding this Tuesday's race. As much as it pains me to print it, it's worthwhile reading, as he has the track record to back it up. As a last ditch effort to pursuade any undecided voters, I feel compelled to post
this article from the American Thinker, and ask you to imagine what you would do with a couple of extra g's every year. On a more pragmatic note, since the
election will be over in a couple of days, and there can't possibly be as many undecideds as the polls would lead us to
believe - please pass this on to any potential faithless electors you might know. (Hey, Obama can have the rest of the press and SandJ can't get in one McCain plug? Be fair.)
Week Ending October 26, 2008 If you're like me, and every
other American who had the misfortune of tuning in to all of the presidential debates, you probably would have liked
to have seen an important issue actually get addressed and analyzed. Luckily for us, SandJ's correspondent is able to
do just that (far better than the actual candidates I might add). Here he muses on the meaning of the word "victory" as it applies to today's conflicts.
Week Ending October 19, 2008 NEW! Having spent over ten years living in New York, I can attest first hand to the anguish of living
among the enemy in a place known for obnoxious fans. I've since moved to San Diego, where the atmosphere is the epitome
of anti-East Coast zeal. No one gets too wrapped up in how bad their teams are, post game shows after crushing defeats
feature analysts hoping that "the guys don't get too down on themselves after this." That's why it was so
jarring to go out and watch a game in a SD bar this past Sunday and hear actual god-honest vitriol spewed from the lips of
Bolts fans. Laughing every time there was a shot of Matt Cassell trying to think of a way to hurt himself on the sideline
so he wouldn't have to go back in, booing when the Pats scored a late garbage TD and hushing me when I suggested that
Norv Turner might want to sit LT2 up three TDs late in the second half. Is there somehow new vigor in the impossibly laid-back
SD sports scene? Not quite, it's now official - all of America hates Boston teams. And, with the Pats and Red Sox both
in the process of going down in flames, SandJ will gladly take the opportunity to kick a man when he's down. Please welcome
to the site our newest contributor - The Anti-Boston Sports Crab.
Week Ending September 28, 2008
NEW! As
SandJ readers may have discerned from our last post, the politics of the operator and several of our contributors definitely
skew right-of-center. Our only prerequisite for accepting submissions when we started this website was simply that they had
to be interesting. Period. In the U.S. media today, there seems to be no room for discussion, only soap-box pontificating
and shrill histrionics. Under normal circumstances, one could expect the blogosphere to temper the mainstream media's
inherent bias, but the fact is that one only needs to visit either conservative or liberal websites to see that people motivated
to blog on politics actually carry the partisan shout-fest to a whole new level. We would like nothing better than to use
our platform, however tiny, to provide a place for reasoned discourse from people on both sides of the fence. With that said, I received several responses to my last post. Most are unprintable
or incoherent, but I did receive one from an unexpected source. It was a joint response from parties whose credentials as
both staunch liberals and intelligent human beings I can give unqualified attestation. Without further ado, a rational liberal point of view on the candidacy of Sarah Palin, courtesy of... my parents. LINKS: I have no idea how the cops are going to build a case against this guy. I've consulted several lawyers on the matter, and it appears that the precedent of "whoever smelt it, dealt it"
has never been successfully challenged in a U.S. court of law.
Week
Ending September 21, 2008 NEW! SandJ
offers our most sincere apologies for the lack of production on the site over the past few weeks. We've been doing less
writing than Stephen A. Smith, for Christ's sake! In fairness to us, it is football season, and most of our surfing
time has been focused on whom to pick up on the fantasy waiver-wire this week. (Sad but true - I just sent an email home to
remind myself to put in claims on Darren Sproles and Tim Hightower because I can't access our league site from work. Pathetic,
I know.) Anyway, I also thought our Senior Political Correspondent would be carrying us at this point, but, go figure;
people involved in politics tend to be busy during the Fall of election years. Who knew? It is with this in mind that
I offer my completely off-the-cuff and barely informed impressions of the personalities featured on each party's ticket.
I think it's important to think critically about the people into whose hands we place the fate of our great nation, but,
in my mind, it's even more important to buy a couple of more days to finish a piece on my fantasy football draft. With that said here we go... LINKS: What
the hell, while we're at it - it's political fever week here at SandJ.
Week ending August 31, 2008 On the heels of the Democratic convention
and John McCain's surprise VP pick, SandJ feels that it's as good a time as any to revisit our "Bizarre Vice-Presidential Facts" column. Enjoy.
Week Ending August 17, 2008
LINKS: Prepare
to be completely freaked out. Apparently researchers have implanted rat brains into little mini-cyborgs who think they are rats. Good news or bad, it prompted me to write an email to Professor Rodney Brooks at MIT (and God bless the humble genius) and he wrote me back assuring me that this is nothing new and hinted that these particular
researchers just have a superior PR machine than scientists who are doing more advanced work. I don't know
if that makes me more or less comfortable, but I'm still pretty giddy that Professor Brooks actually wrote me an email.
I listed him as one of the people I most wanted to meet on MySpace. His book Flesh and Machines is a complete mind-blower and comes highly recommended by this site.
Week Ending August 3, 2008 LINKS: Here at SandJ
we tend to dislike cats while maintaining a profound antipathy for Hitler. So if you’re like us you won’t
like this site.
Week Ending July 27, 2008
LINKS:
A few weeks ago, SandJ did a piece on terrible ballpark promotions. There was one that I had not heard
of which would have won the prize hands-down had it not been stopped - Black Brian Roberts bobblehead night.
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