Since we can't have nice things like sparkle text anymore, have the opening paragraph on this interview with the Guardian before the Clásico really big instead: Xabi Alonso has one question at the very start. "Is this going to be all about Liverpool or is it going to be about Real Madrid and El Gran Clásico, too?" he says, with no little wariness. Liverpool are out of the Champions League....
Looks like some sanity (just a little) has returned: Australia's parliament has rejected draft carbon-trading legislation for an emissions trading system that is at the centre of the government's plans to tackle climate change. It is often pointed out that "Australians emit more greenhouse gases per head than any other country" - but let's face it, there are so few Australians relatively ...
... office someday, unhinge her enormous jaw and eat me. Tiger Woods. This is the Tom Brady effect: I don’t hate Tiger so much as the verbal blowjob he has received for years from sports commentators. People who constantly win championships are boring and I’d rather see an underdog get a chance. It amuses me to no end when America’s Sweetheart loses a golf game and some people wear sackcloth and ...
* Simple majority rule as best safeguard of minorities? Though the argument works best for a proportional representation legislature, not ballot initiatives. * Robert Fisk on the Armenian genocide * Tony Judt on social democracy , past present and future. * North Korea sabotages self more . * Uganda attacks gays . With US Christian support . * Migration trends in the US . Wonder ...
... for them because they hate the Patriots, and they spent the pre-game period telling me - the Saints fan - why the Saints should win. It was an awesome game. I like the analogy one of the commentators gave - he said the Patriots pulling out its top three players with 5 1/2 minutes left in the game (including Tom Brady) was like a little kid losing a chess game, so he scatters all the pieces just ...
... Don Cherry* likes Rick Jeanerette) but when Versus covers a game they usurp the position for their own commentators. Normally this would be an inconvenience, like when an NFL team gets the Monday Night game and a new group of people come in, but in this case it is much worse. The Versus commentators, seem to want to talk about everything but the game. In fact, it becomes so distracting that ...
... to have past form denying other environmental/public health causes that are now accepted as relatively uncontroversial public policy. It seems there is a large element, pretty clearly on display in commentators like Clarkson, of a tribal dislike of the environmental movement. Few of them, of course, are charismatic celebrities like Clarkson, so few of them get their past positions examined. We ...
Okay, so I completly understand the whole men and sports thing i know that its like women and shopping but can some one please explain to me why do we have to watch commentators talk about and show clips from the game you just MADE me watch!?! I mean really could i just have the remote control and compromise by watching ESPN after ? They only show the plays that really matter so why waste both our...
... there. Although I heard someone say who went to see a match that it looks much darker on tv than it actually is, so, yeah. Another thing I wondered about was transport to and from the o2. Various commentators um, commented on that, not only that it's not that easy to get there, but also that the evening matches start very late, with some of them only ending around midnight. It can't be easy to ...
... Offutt they hadn't heard already. It was the same stuff as an hour ago; they were sending troops, who were standing by outside the invisible barrier. No one knew what was happening, but some of the commentators were calling it the Mutant Siege now. “Shit,” Mystique said. “Shit.” She'd been fine with the rocket launcher, but now she was rapidly loosing her cool. So far, there had been nothing on ...
