I don’t pretend to have watched a lot of college basketball this year. Very little, in fact. This is still my favorite time of year from a sporting event standpoint, since I’ll watch games even if I have no strong rooting interest. The basketball…
Regular readers and close friends may remember my post last July mourning the passing of Arnie Huberman. David encouraged me to take some bottles of Arnie’s wine home and make sure they were enjoyed. Tonight, my wife and I opened a 1996 Billecart-Salmon Champagne…
Duke is playing at Maryland tonight. Every year for the past 10 years or so, my friend Spero and I would trash talk in the days leading up to the game. It was our way of staying in touch and catching up. Regular readers…
We were only there for 5 days, but managed to get a good feel for the area. It’s a quiet island, for the most part. The Caymanians are quiet, comfortable people. The most interesting excursion we enjoyed was Stingray City. Stingray City is located…
We had pretty cruddy internet service in Grand Cayman, hence the lack of posts so far on our trip. As I’m away traveling on business, I’ll break our trip down into a few smaller posts with pictures over the next couple of days. All…
I need to post pictures and updates of our Grand Cayman trip. But, I couldn’t resist throwing up a quick post about a very cool Westin offer. Westin is offering a $100 Amazon gift card for every (2) Westin stays through the middle of…
My best friend, David, helped me move my blog over to wordpress after all the problems I had with blogspot. Okay, to be honest, he did all the work. We did figure out what was going wrong, and he was able to fix it….
I can’t imagine anyone actually still reads my blog, due to all the SPAM. I can’t tell you I have a good solution, other than daily e-mails to Google and changing my password to something the Pentagon can’t break. And yet, more SPAM this…
This is not a knock on the Democratic party, since the last time a politician said something this stupid was Republican George Allen calling a rival’s intern macaca on video. Martha Coakley is locked in a ferocious battle for Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts….
While I’m sure members of the Democratic party have really good reasons, I hope my friends who vote the left side of the ticket will agree that one of the latest changes to health insurance legislation really just isn’t right. This article in the…