I'm trying to imagine the marketing possibilities: "Andries Rhoodie here. I just wanted to say that the discriminating time traveling white supremacist always chooses Apple for his 1868 computing needs. I'm not really entirely sure what we did with those Macintoshes, but a single video iPod holds enough kinky blinking porn to last the next 150 years. Thank you, Steve Jobs!"
Okay, I'm happy that after having to endure endless tripe about how the Southern states were "oppressed" by the Northern ones and that the Confederacy was built on "high ideals" (ignoring the slavery) that deserved to win out, that finally on page 411 (of the paperback) we get at a little bit of the truth: Jefferson Davis, worried about the voting split along state lines between Bedford Forrest and Robert Lee (who is a closet abolitionist) states, "Sectionalism appears to remain alive and well among us. That is dangerous; if we cannot cure it, it will cause us grief down the road: the United States, after all, tore asunder from a surfeit of sectionalism." Albert Brown (Lee's running mate) replies, "The Constitution of the Confederate States does not provide for secession." "Neither did the Constitution of the United States," Davis replied. "But if the western states have the gall to seek to abandon our confederacy as a result of this election, we shall--" He stopped; for once his facade cracked, leaving him quite humanly confused. EXACTLY!
All in all, it's a worthy read, if very slow to start out as we wade through Turtledove's excellent and exhaustive Civil War research.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Out of the playoffs
I've read the Sports Guy's articles since he was picked up by ESPN.com and greatly enjoyed them. Recently, he updated his "Levels of Losing" in honor of the Mets' collapse and falling out of the postseason.
Too bad they didn't wait until Monday night's game was resolved to finish the article. Don't you think that the career saves leading blowing two critical games in a three-day span to drop his team out of the playoffs (hell, not to mention that the first blown save occurred on a triple given up to the son of Mr. Padre, and the second blown save came in a game where a. the starters were Peavy vs. Fogg and should never have come down to being decided by a shaky Hoffman in the first place, and b. the hit by Holliday handed him the batting crown and likely the MVP award, despite being a product of Coors) deserves to be categorized? Gaaaaack.
Here's the final cumulative games over .500 by division. Can all 17 Padres fans take solace in knowing that their division was really tough this year? Given that Norv Turner is coaching the Chargers... no.
Week ALE ALC ALW NLE NLC NLW
2007-09-30 6 -2 18 0 -54 32
Too bad they didn't wait until Monday night's game was resolved to finish the article. Don't you think that the career saves leading blowing two critical games in a three-day span to drop his team out of the playoffs (hell, not to mention that the first blown save occurred on a triple given up to the son of Mr. Padre, and the second blown save came in a game where a. the starters were Peavy vs. Fogg and should never have come down to being decided by a shaky Hoffman in the first place, and b. the hit by Holliday handed him the batting crown and likely the MVP award, despite being a product of Coors) deserves to be categorized? Gaaaaack.
Here's the final cumulative games over .500 by division. Can all 17 Padres fans take solace in knowing that their division was really tough this year? Given that Norv Turner is coaching the Chargers... no.
Week ALE ALC ALW NLE NLC NLW
2007-09-30 6 -2 18 0 -54 32
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