Archive for March, 2010
Another health care vote? Maybe, maybe not!
Debate about an upcoming health care vote is dominating headlines, so you need to know why this issue isn’t settled yet despite reading stories about continued passing of health care proposals. This quote most eloquently explains the previous votes and why there is a final vote in the near future: “Sweeping legislation seemed to be [...]
Fancy word for human attributes
I must have some smart friends because the word “anthropomorphize” was thrown at me in a Facebook comment over the weekend. In the unlikely event that you encounter that word in the near future, you should know what it means. anthropomorphize – “to ascribe human form or attributes to (an animal, plant, material object, etc.)”1 [...]
Automatic and at-large bids
It’s NCAA Selection Sunday, the day when the 65 teams for college basketball’s season ending tournament are announced. For hoops newbies, you’re going to hear people use terms like “at-large bids” and “automatic bids.” Generally, teams who win their conference tournament receive an automatic bid, meaning they automatically are in the NCAA tournament regardless of [...]
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger was just released from a hospital in Seoul, Korea after suffering from stomach pains. For the younger generation, Kissinger may be a familiar name but his achievements might not be known. Kissinger was the U.S. Secretary of State in the mid-70s for Nixon and Ford. A Harvard grad, the German-born government employee was [...]
Spring Training lingo
Baseball doesn’t start its regular season for a few weeks yet, but it’s hard to avoid hearing things like “now for your Cactus League scores” on your late night local newscast. Not familiar with baseball’s spring training and why they seem to play a million games before a single one even counts? Let me color [...]
Oh, so that’s Ludacris
Ludacris has a new album coming out this week titled Battle of the Sexes. Many of the lyrics and some of the song titles are a little too strong for this mostly G-rated blog, but there’s still a few things I can tell you about the guy whose name you know but aren’t sure why. [...]
Average Life Span
Sunday was a bad day to be a really old person in the United States. Two of the oldest people in the world died within hours of each other, one a 114-year-old woman in New Hampshire and the other a spry 113-year-old woman from Detroit. The rest of the intriguing story can be found here. [...]
Oscars Preview
While most of you us only saw a couple of the TEN movies nominated this year, it never stops us from making the Academy Awards a major Dinner Topic when the time to dole out the statues arrives. Tonight, expect much of the same – safe rehearsed jokes, polite speeches thanking scores of people we’ve [...]
