A couple of nights ago, I saw a re-run of the movie Rounders. I absolutely love that movie. Everyone has those movies that just hit them the right way and make them stop and watch whenever they run across them on the tube, and Rounders definitely makes that list for me.
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I have to admit that I took a certain amount of satisfaction from today’s announcement that General Electric had suffered a first quarter drop in net income that forced them to restate their projected earnings for all of 2008, a state of affairs that led to a drop of about 12% (and counting) in GE’s [...]
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Bill Buckner, fittingly, and far too late, returns to a standing ovation in Fenway Park. Well deserved, and long overdue.
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…was the worst day of my life. It was the day my father died, and I still can’t think of it without tears filling my eyes.
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I wanted to post a quick thank you to the people at Pardon The Interruption for their excellent April Fool’s joke a few days ago. Since I reside with a group of neurotic KU fans, they were particularly susceptible to this thing being believed, and I was able to use that to my advantage, [...]
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Quickly, I thought I’d post an update on the results of our family NCAA pool. After the first weekend, it looked like this:
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