We are the champions

Our SOBO football team was crowned champions of the "Medium Core" league on Saturday. Go us! (follow the link to the champs).

Improv Everywhere

This is pure genious. I just spent about an hour on the Improv Everywhere web page.

Here are the "missions" I checked out...

Best Buy
Millionaire

I'll leave the rest to your random wandering...

The Prodigal Returns

I guess Bush senior is picking up the pieces for his son... This article (from Newsweek) is an interesting discussion of 41 vs 43. I've been annoyed by W's insistance that a vote for Dems is a vote for terrorists. It turns out it's actually a vote for his father!

The American people, as politicians like to say, spoke last week—and spoke in no uncertain terms. The 2006 vote does not suggest an eagerness for a sharp left turn. It seems, rather, to be a plea for a shift from the hard right of the neoconservatives to the center represented by the old man in Houston. The re-emergence of Iraq Study Group voices such as Baker, Gates and Alan Simpson—all longtime friends of Bush Senior—is not unlike the entrance of Fortinbras at the conclusion of "Hamlet." These are 41's men, and the removal of Rumsfeld—an ancient rival of Bush Senior's from the Ford days—is a move toward the broad middle. The apparent triumph of pragmatism over ideology on Iraq was welcome news, at least to the public. In the new NEWSWEEK Poll, 67 percent favor Bush Senior's internationalist approach to foreign policy over his son's more unilateral course