Rodney Rogers

He’s paralyzed from the shoulders down after an accident.  I remember watching him when he was at Wake Forest, where he was freshman of the year in the Atlantic Coast Conference over Grant Hill, then player of the year two years later.  He was taken #9 by the Nuggets, then did this as a rookie, showing [...]

“Mad Men”

Good show.  I’m almost through with the first episode.

Real quick

You might have known that Charles Stone III, creator of the Whassup commercials as well as the tremendous spoof above, directed Black Sheep’s “The Choice is Yours.”  I didn’t.

Lavar Arrington’s career wasn’t that bad (three Pro Bowls) but it seems like he could have done so much more.  Off the [...]

Anticipation

Via Yes We Can Hold Babies.

White girls named Ashley

Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight with a gem.

This is too true

A strong entry on the global sham economy from Kai Chang.  No surprise, Zuky is a serious site.

Let’s quantify blackness

No, not really.  Ta-Nehisi Coates, unsurprisingly, with a great shutdown of a ridiculous conversation.

“Formulated by scared children”

“We have robbers here in Pittsburgh, but they don’t generally mutilate someone’s face like that… They just take the money and run.”
Ashley Todd is a child.  That was my first thought on seeing her face.  My second thought was that the “backwards B” she carved could have stood for Boston, as in the city where [...]

The liberal elite vote for President

The New Yorker makes the case for Barack Obama, pointing out the partisan economic difference this way:  “For the top one per cent of us, the Bush tax cuts are worth, on average, about a thousand dollars a week; for the bottom fifth, about a dollar and a half.” 
This endorsement chronicles John McCain’s “remorseless rightward” turn [...]

Bailing out a smooth criminal

From across a few ponds:
…Our political systems are completely geared towards (maximizing the income of the few rather than that of the general populaton): politicians of all stripes are supporting the bailout despite massive protests by their constituents, just like they supported financial deregulation, labor market “reform,” “free” trade, the tax race to the bottom and [...]