The recent hullabaloo over CitiGroup’s 20-year contract to name the New York Mets new ballpark has reminded me of some ideas regarding stadium naming rights. Corporate naming of venues is a trend already unpopular with sports’ fans but not really all that new. After all, the oldest surviving ballpark in baseball was named to promote [...]
Posts Tagged ‘News’
8 Mar
Retropost: The Worst Night of the Year
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about why I think Daylight Saving Time is evil. As we spring forward our clocks today, and try to shake off the sleepiness, have more heart attacks, feel more blue and find the roads even more dangerous than usual, let’s look back at my alternate plan:
A [...]
3 Feb
RetroPost: What do Presidents do when their term is up?
A couple of years ago I wrote What do Presidents do when their term is up?, possibly one of my most well-researched and better written posts. In it I examined the post-Presidential career of every US President who survived his Presidency. The post was prompted by a suggestion that if Hillary Clinton became President, that [...]
3 Dec
Remembering Odetta
I don’t usually do celebrity obituaries on this blog, but I want to make an exception for the folk musician Odetta who died yesterday at the age of 77. She was a talented musician with a powerful voice and amazing guitar skills. I call her a “folk musician” but she adeptly performed and interpreted all [...]
5 Nov
Book Review: The Devil We Know by Robert Baer
I listened to the audiobook of The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower (2008) by Robert Baer and I can tell you right now that this isn’t going to be a good review because this book presents such a different understanding of Iran than any other perspective I’ve ever encountered. Here are [...]
3 Nov
Get out the Vote
Tomorrow is Election Day. While the Presidential Election is well-publicized, if you’re like me you may find it hard to find information on the other elections and ballot-initiatives that are taking place. Here are a few resources I’ve found and I hope this may help any readers in making informed decisions when voting.
Imagine Election – [...]
18 Apr
Papal Mass in Washington
Yesterday, I watched Pope Benedict celebrate Mass with 48,000 people at Nationals Park in Washington. I wouldn’t usually do this because like fireworks, there’s something about Mass on tv that just isn’t the same. I’m also something of a “low church” kind of Catholic, to use an old fashioned term. But I [...]
19 Feb
library links for 19 February 2008
To start things off today a fun Sesame Street clip, “No Cookies in the Library” (via the new WorldCat Blog):
And now a couple of links about reading and writing:
Resources for Book Suggestions by Brian Herzog (Swiss Army Librarian, 2/14/08) – an exhaustive list.
Information Overload: The Blogger’s Worst Enemy and 8 Ways [...]
15 Feb
links of the day for 15 February 2008
A Guide for Europeans:How to Read the U.S. Primaries by VICENTE NAVARRO (CounterPunch, 2/13/08)
The American way — whatever that is by Joan Chittister, OSB (National Catholic Reporter, 2/13/08)
Lance Armstrong, world’s fastest bike commuter? WTF! by Russ Rocca (Bike Commuters, 2/14/08)
Is a minimum-wage worker officially in poverty? by Brooks Jackson (FactCheck.org, February 2008)
17 Mar
Confessions of a St. Patrick’s Day Curmudgeon
Posted by Liam in Ideas, Opinion & Commentary. Tagged: Boston, Catholicism, Faith, Family, Fun Stuff, History, Holidays, Ireland, Local, New York, News, Politics. Leave a Comment
While most kids look forward to Christmas, when I was a child, St. Patrick’s Day (along with Thanksgiving) was one of my favorite days of the year. It was a big day in my family usually involving going to the parade in New York and seeing family and friends we hadn’t seen in a while. [...]
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