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Entries for June, 2007

10 Favorite Movies of All Time

I admit it – I happen to love Top 10 lists. Letterman really hit on something core to our culture when he made the Top 10 list a centerpiece of his show. It’s an easily-digestible parcel of information that often says as much about the list maker as it does about the subject matter, and [...]

EKG Fantasy League – Week 12 POW

After a long silence, I am pleased to be back with this week’s POW update for my family’s fantasy baseball league, the EKG Fantasy League (Elkin-Kaufman-Gadd), hosted on ESPN.com. Our week is Sunday to Saturday, so I compile the numbers for the past 7 days on Sunday mornings. We do this in an 8-team league, [...]

Our Government is broken

And it starts at the top. I think presidential politics in the US has reached an all-time low. The current president has handled his post with such a supreme lack of concern for the average American that it is laughable to remember his 2000 campaign slogan was “Real Results for Real People”. He and his [...]