Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels is not the droid you're looking for.
Josh McDaniels is crazy.
April 25, 2010
Draft Reax
Posted by Michael under Uncategorized | Tags: Denver Broncos, Josh McDaniels, Tim Tebow |Leave a Comment
April 21, 2010
Quote of the Day
Posted by Michael under Uncategorized | Tags: National Review, quote of the day, William F. Buckley |Leave a Comment
“The presumption is that the state is the business of aggrandizing its own power, and ought to be watched. But the presumption taken to a certain point blinds you, if in fact you simply refuse to listen to what is being said and then make your own evaluation.”
~ William F. Buckley, 1998
April 16, 2010
April 16, 2010
My Draft Wish List
Posted by Michael under Uncategorized | Tags: Denver Broncos, NFL, sports |1 Comment
It’s that time again. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that this draft will have a big part in determining whether Josh McDaniels gets replaced after three years, or if he sticks. Once they trade TE Tony Scheffler (which should be any day now), Shanahan’s guys will be gone and the team will have McD’s fingerprints all over it. There’s still some time to go before the 2009 draft can be judged fairly, but the top trio of Knowshon Moreno, Robert Ayers, and Alphonso Smith produced a resounding “meh” in their rookie season. So if McD blows this draft… not good. Here’s what I’m hoping the Broncos do in the first three rounds this weekend:
Round 1: Trade down, if possible, to collect an extra pick. If they can’t, then get center Maurkice Pouncey. Not exciting, but exciting should not be job one for McDaniels and GM Brian Xanders. Denver needs to replace Casey Wiegmann, and Peter King says teams look at Pouncey and see a ten-year rock in the middle of the offensive line.
April 16, 2010
Tablets Glass and Stone
Posted by Michael under Uncategorized | Tags: Apple, iPad, Mac, Umberto Eco |Leave a Comment
I’m still working on my review of the iPad. I might need to have a full two weeks with it before I know what I want to say. There’s a lot to love about it, but as you’d guess from what everyone else has already said, there’s plenty to drive you crazy as well.
In the meantime, an old essay by Umberto Eco has helped me understand why I’m such a believer in Mac products: it all goes back to my Catholic roots.
April 15, 2010
An Omnibus Sports Post
Posted by Michael under Uncategorized | Tags: Brandon Marshall, Denver Broncos, Iowa Hawkeyes, Phillies, sports |Leave a Comment
Haven’t had time to write this week, and not just because I’ve been playing with the iPad. Dissertation, grading, baby, new season of Mad Men on DVD… Life is busy at Chez Panoptiblog. But there are three sports-related stories I would hate to miss commenting on…
April 9, 2010
April 7, 2010
I got an iPad. More later.
April 6, 2010
Palin 2012? Not So Fast
Posted by Michael under Uncategorized | Tags: 2012, Andrew Sullivan, Palin |Leave a Comment
One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers posits that the 2012 nomination is a test for the GOP:
should they decide to run her for office that is how America will know, beyond doubt, that the Republicans are no longer a political party, but a mob and a threat to this country.
Sullivan responds that he fears “she is the next nominee by default.” I’m not so sure. Here’s a post from The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, and his blog, “The Fix.” It was written exactly four years ago, at this point before the 2008 election. Here are his five potential nominees for the Democrats, 21 months before the Iowa Caucus: Evan Bayh, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry, and Mark Warner. Note that of those five, only Clinton and Edwards even ran.
But by eight months later, the next time Cillizza ranked the potential nominees, the list looked considerably different. His list then was (in order of likelihood to win) Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Bayh (who didn’t end up running), and Richardson. Of those candidates, he had this to say, reflecting what would be the conventional wisdom for the next year: (more…)
April 5, 2010
The Object of My Desire
Me: (sigh) If I had an iPad, I could sit on the couch and read on the Internet while we watch the basketball game.
Jen: You can do that with your laptop.
Me: (sigh)
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I almost bought one today. But it’s going to take a little more convincing before I can believe that (a) somebody else isn’t going to make a better one, and/or (b) the iPad doesn’t have annoying glitches that will piss me off, and/or (c) iPad 2.0 isn’t going to be much better, and soon.
