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Mar 30 2017
Snitchin’
First to sell out gets the best deal! Frankly it’s a classic Prisoner’s Dilemma. Game Theory says that over extended numbers of rounds Tit for Tat is the best strategy, in a constricted environment betray at the earliest opportunity and keep doing it. When I had to participate at a leadership conference I was already …
Mar 30 2017
Speaking of Consistent and Obvious Lying
2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ADAM GOLDMAN, The New York Times MARCH 30, 2017 A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that …
Mar 30 2017
Fake News (again)
Many news reports and columns recently have suggested that ‘Fake News’ is passe, a pre-election problem. Not co-incidentally most of them are from the very same publications and people who made it an issue. While somewhat equally divided between Left and Right in service of the false gods of objectivity, fairness, and balance, what the …
Mar 29 2017
Why We Fight
Hint: It’s not because “they hate our freedoms.” Behind Trump’s Bloody War in Yemen: A Saudi Offensive Against Iran By Jefferson Morley, AlterNet March 28, 2017 Saudi Arabia is seeking to oust a government dominated by the Houthi tribe, who are mostly Shia and more loyal to Iran than to Saudi Arabia. … The battle …
Mar 29 2017
Solidarity Forever
Yesterday was not just a good day for Women’s Hockey or Women’s Sports, but for Labor in general. The U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team , by increasing their training stipends from $6,000 (yup, six THOUSAND dollars paid in increments of $1,000 a month for ONLY the 6 months leading to the Olympics) to $70,000 annually …
Mar 27 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Finals (Round of 8)- Day 2
7:00 ESPN Oregon-UConn UConn, Have you been reading? Sorry Ducks. 9:00 ESPN South Carolina-FSU No pick, just cannon fodder.
Mar 27 2017
Special Prosecutor? Sure.
I don’t necessarily buy into the notion that ‘Russian Influence’ was a desicive factor in the 2016 election, for one thing the demographics that spelled Democratic defeat were Women, African-Americans, and Latinos (check the changes from the Obama victories). This is not particularly surprising if you recognize 2016 was a “Change” election and one candidate …
Mar 26 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Regional Finals (Round of 8)- Day 2
2:20 CBS Florida-South Carolina Ugh, who cares? Gonzaga! 5:05 CBS Kentucky-North Carolina Yeah, Kentucky must go.
Mar 26 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Finals (Round of 8)- Day 1
12:00 ESPN Notre Dame-Stanford Sibling rivalry. Muffet must go. 7:30 ESPN Baylor-Mississippi State Both Dangerous. Mississippi State is an unknown quantity. Baylor has already lost to UConn.
Mar 25 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Regional Finals (Round of 8)- Day 1
6:09 TBS Gonzaga-Xavier West Region Xavier is the only true underdog left, but Gonzaga has been waiting for years. I’ll give this one to TMC. 8:49 TBS Kansas-Oregon Midwest Region The only team I hate more than Kansas is Kentucky (actually Florida and South Carolina are pretty reprehensible too). Anyway, Go Ducks!
Mar 25 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Semifinals (Round of 16)- Day 2
11:30 ESPN Maryland-Oregon Dangerous. You should root for Oregon. 1:30 PM ESPN UConn-UCLA UConn. You know who to root for. 4:00 ESPN South Carolina-Quinnipiac The biggest underdogs in the Tournament, Women or Men. You should root for Quinnipiac. 6:00 ESPN Oregon State-FSU Oregon State because Florida.
Mar 24 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Regional Semifinals (Round of 16)- Day 1
Women are stealing the show during March Madness, but the NCAA continues to neglect them by Lindsay Gibbs, Think Progress 3/24/2017 When most people think about March Madness, they only think of the behemoth men’s tournament, which generates over $1 billion in advertising revenue alone, more than even the NBA playoffs. When they do think …