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I hate to follow right in the footsteps of El Jefe, but this is something I have been sitting on for awhile. The Hall of Fame Index has been nominated for The Sporting News Award. The Sporting News Award is given in conjunction with SABR (The Society for American Baseball Research). It is one of the two major awards given to authors in conjunction with SABR. Even though it is called The Sporting News Award it...

There are days when bloggers get lazy and simply hit on the popular item for cheap hits. Well, El Jefe can take it from my pay. Charlie Sheen has been in the news a lot lately. No, this is not a piece where I hypothesize about a man's psychological being without having the benefit of knowing him or the benefit of the training necessary to make such determinations. Men and women a lot more learned...

Microeconomics sounded so boring when I was in college. What I didn't realize is that it gave someone the opportunity to study a small snippet of the economy that they found interesting. One that is interesting to me is the development of E-Readers. Everyone probably knows someone by now that owns one. Nook and Kindle seem to be the most popular but Sony has one and people can still download PDFs on their computer or...

Here is a post full of distractions. In America we like distractions to take us away from the fact that we are a second-world nation in decline.It is easier to be distracted than to take part in politics and in public affairs.I want to give the people what they want.The text in the post is for people who want a distraction from the distractions.Above is a running donkey. Sometimes you run and run in life, and...

Consider the headline as a warning. On some days I'm in a jovial mood and on others a contemplative mood. Today happens to be one of the latter. Last week I went to one of my meetings at church and we read the "turn the other cheek" passage. Of course, that also happened to be the gospel reading for Sunday. So, I got a double dose so to speak. So, forgive me my Monday morning...

About a year ago, the state of Texas and city of Houston joined together to give the residents of Clear Lake a lesson. You see, we don't know enough about hurricanes. I certainly don't know enough after hunkering down through Alicia when I was young. I don't know enough after living through numerous tropical storms and finally Ike. So, since the residents of our area of town are not highly educated enough (PhDs aren't enough)...

The nation is mired in an economic slump and deficit hawks are scouring the budget the waste. Meanwhile, tea party people want a balanced budget and they want lower taxes. How is this possible? Well, it is time for that good old-fashioned American spirit. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. So, here are some suggestions to give that old economy a new kick. Give the holidays a corporate sponsor People say the...

If past is prelude, then the melding of my post-college professional experiences should logically lead to my current position (including my good fortune to be a contributor to TDH); but if logic, common sense and good business practice prevail, then I should run screaming from the train wreck of a business environment I currently find myself in. Historical context: theatre arts degree (and by association, waitress extraordinaire), professional theatre in the US and Canada...

The Green Bay Packers, who just won the Super Bowl, are the only community-owned non-profit team in American major league sports.(Above--Citizen-owners at the Packers game. Photo by yunggunn2k3.)From the Georgetown University newspaper The Hoya---"Unlike the 31 other professional football teams, or any other sports team for that matter, the Packers are not owned by some wealthy individual (or group of individuals) seeking a profit. Instead, they're owned and managed by 111,968 devoted fans. In that lies their...

Sports radio on the weekend is a vast wasteland of crap. In fact, it is the single biggest reason why I wanted SiriusXM in the first place. Unfortunately, my car is not advanced enough to include it automatically, so I had to get one of those contraptions that plays it through a random FM station on my own radio. Of course, it charges the IPhone at the same time, but static and other factors don't...