How to reduce the amount of air in a football without letting any air out

Take the Patriots and lay the points.  

O/U is 47 1/2.  Take the under.

Prediction - 

NEP 24

SSH 21

Really?  REALLY??  U.C. Berkeley Students Complain About Having To Read Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, Marx, Weber and Foucault. In course on classic social theory. And if that makes it hard for you to focus on the course material, cupcakes, you don’t belong in college.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today Show How Far American Educational Standards Have Declined.

of "I'll believe it's an emergency ...."

Obama Films Anti-Oil-Drilling Video . . . From A Jet With A 53,000 Gallon Fuel Tank. “On Saturday, Obama flew Air Force One over 8,000+ miles to India to discuss global warming and other issues.”

and in another venue: WHY ARE LEFTY INSTITUTIONS SUCH HOTBEDS OF RACISM AND SEXISM? Female, Minority Professors Are Paid Less Than White Male Professors at UC-Berkeley.

No.  Don't.  Just don't.  It's a moderately interesting one trick pony that Mad About You did better two decades ago.  Waste of a pretty good cast.  One good speech - from "The Critic" - that pretty much abuses the audience for even being there.  

I'll give it one star.  

Birdma of Alcatrez?  Three 1/2.

JAKUB GRYGIEL: Know Thy Enemy: The modern Western penchant for trusting in the equal rationality of all is strategic folly. Aeschylus understood this well.

The modern Western penchant for trusting in the equal rationality of all suggests otherwise. According to this conceit, there is no reason to plumb the nature of an enemy’s thinking because it is no different in essence from one’s own. But this is wrong. A rival’s response to one’s strategy is not predictable as a simply rational and universal reaction that can be generalized and grasped with relative ease. Rival states or groups respond to similar actions in different ways based on their culture, worldview, history, and the proclivities of their leaders. Good strategy, as Bernard Brodie once put it, “presupposes good anthropology and good sociology.”

Despite their superficial attachment to multiculturalism, our elites don’t really want to think of other cultures as, you know, thinking differently, for fear that it might somehow be racist to take that into account.

I'll admit to havinga few of these, but John Wright's article on Word Fetishes is well worth the read.  “Leftists are reasonable and decent people except in their particular areas of sensitivity, by which I mean, of course, where they are hiding their smothering guilt.”

A few choice excerpts to whet your appitite:

Consider: Marx proposed an economic system where goods and services would be produced without reference to prices, to supply and demand, and to the scarcity of resources. In other words, he proposed economics without economics. This would like someone who proposed a geometric system without points and lines, without definitions and without common notions. In order to answer his critics, Marx told them that to minds conditioned by bourgeoisie means of production, the results of the material dialectic once the dictatorship of the proletarian had ended the exploitation of private property forever was unimaginable to them. For those of you who don’t speak Leftist,  Marx merely proposed that oldest and most favorite of Leftist counter-arguments: he told them to shut up.

and

A word-fetish is when you have a bit of language which you hope will have a magical effect on the world, turning gold into lead.

The simplest example is the phrase ‘wage slavery’ which, like the phrase ‘bright darkness’ or ‘four-sided triangle’ or ‘homosexual marriage’ is a nonsense phrase, signifying nothing and meant to signify nothing.

What word fetishes do is carry a connotation without carrying a denotation. In the above example, a slave is defined as one who is coerced into doing labor without a wage. The payment of a wage is the defining thing that makes a laborer not a slave; it is the sign that the exchange was voluntary. Hence the term ‘wage slavery’ has a connotation of a horrible and involuntary servitude, akin to bondage, and the connotation is affixed to working for a wage, a voluntary exchange between equals, which is the opposite.

 

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF THE MEDIA PRODUCES: People Who Like Republican Policies Hate Republicans Anyway, Without Knowing Why. Talk of “outreach” is fine, but when the press demonizes you all day everyday, outreach is hard.

I have a friend who agrees with about 70% of the policy issues Sarah Palin stood for and rejects about the same % of Obama's.  But she claims to be an independant and hates Palin with a passion while defending Obama at every chance.   The Oval Office will remain a tough get until that's turned back.

But don't worry. They'll get (insert program here) right.

HHS Inspector General Details How Feds Botched the Obamacare Exchange Planning Process

Internal Government Document Shows “Moonlight Fire” Investigators Deliberately Covered Up A Stoned Fire Lookout

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Failing Up: Company behind HealthCare.gov debacle gets an IRS contract.

SO THE BEST AIRPLANE FOR ATTACKING ISIS IS THE A-10, and the Pentagon is scrapping them.

You know, Robert Conquest once wrote, “The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies,” but that statement is striking a little too close to home lately.

this one, again: THERE’S ALWAYS SOMEBODY WHO GAINS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT DISTORTS THE MARKET: Smart Shoppers Hitting Gun Buyback Events for Bargains.

Why are anti-gun activists so violent? “The incident where the man lawfully carrying a gun was tackled by another man was captured on video. Did you see that? A law-abiding black man minding his own business when suddenly an obviously racist white guy batters him. I wonder when Al Sharpton will organize a march to protest this injustice!”

UPDATE: From the comments:

So let me see if I understand this correctly: in a former Confederate state, a white man attacked an elderly black man for exercising a legal right, and the Democrats are upset that the white man is being prosecuted?

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

THERE’S ALWAYS SOMEBODY WHO GAINS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT DISTORTS THE MARKET: Smart Shoppers Hitting Gun Buyback Events for Bargains.  Paying $25 for an $8 magazine.

from what may, or may not, have been the hottest year in the history of years.

2014: Among the 3 percent Coldest Years in 10,000 years?

For those of you wo have appreciated my use of the phrase "statistically significant" I give you this long but informative read: MCID: Minimal Climatically Important Difference

and for a closer I give you  GOOD IDEA, THOUGH I BELIEVE JURASSIC PARK HAD THE SAME SAFETY DEVICE: Scientists Develop Technique Aimed at Preventing Spread of Bio-Engineered Organisms. “The scientists have given a common type of bacterium a unique genetic code that makes it dependent for survival on unnatural amino acids that must be fed to it. If such organisms escaped into the wild, where those amino acids are not available, they would die.”