Category Archives: Interests

Soon-to-be free agent Fielder, Brewers taking aim at pennant

A slightly old article but a good one about Prince Fielder and the work that goes into helping your team succeed. Even, maybe especially, because he’s probably gonna be traded at the end of the season.

Sure, you can argue, the farther he carries his team, the better he looks. And that is surely true. But you’ve seen this before, guys who already have their bags packed by the All-Star break.

I don’t get that vibe here. Fielder genuinely wants his current team, his current city, to get all they can out of him this season.

I like it and I wish I saw more of it in sports.

Arson fire under investigation at Dayton’s former home | StarTribune.com

How Republicans here deal with competing views on balancing the budget: they set fire to the governor’s old house.

Yes, he doesn’t even live there anymore. Not only is it not constructive, it targets the wrong people. Classic GOP reactionary violence.

Further reporting shows that three fires were set, presumably by the same asshat(s). Nice.

Last flight of the Space Shuttle: a 30-year retrospective

I know there are a lot of these articles out there, but one look at the shuttle’s legacy, both good and bad.

Frankly, if not for Vietnam and the Nixon admin pushing to keep manned flight in the public eye, we’d probably have done the whole Moon and Mars base thing by now. That’s not even really a criticism, just how things went.

Oh well, maybe we can thing bigger than how not to pay taxes and still get government benefits. But we’re going to need to change a lot of the dialog to do it.