24 November 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Price Check on Aisle Two, or Why I Shouldn’t Be Running A Business

This is why I have a hard time giving myself enough credit for running my own business: even when exciting things happen, I somehow inevitably end up taking a Third World mode of transport to an important meeting.

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04 September 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Drill, baby, drill? For real?

That was stunning, all right. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I feel stunned.
First, there was endless line of otherwise fairly intelligent Republican pundits who set aside their personal integrity in order to throw themselves on (or perhaps in front of) the Palin bandwagon. Even Rudy Giuliani championed her candidacy, though surely a [...]

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12 June 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Ooh, ooh! I'm on NPR! (Kinda!)

My tournament was the lead story in a recent NPR piece, an interview with senior GQ editor Mickey Rapkin, whose book, Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory, recently hit national bookstores. (Sorry, Rob bought the only copy at the Borders on State and Lake, so you’ll have to get yours elsewhere. Or [...]

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17 April 2008 ~ 3 Comments

I should not be allowed to operate a motor vehicle

So I was driving up I-65 from Nashville the other day, en route to Chicago to drop Molly off at my parents’ house before heading out to New York. I’m thinking I’m getting darn close to Chicago, and I’m wondering why Gary isn’t looking as shady as it usually is, and I’m wondering why I [...]

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