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Speaking of Cleveland, I’m heading back home tomorrow to O-H-I-O!

It’ll be time spent in Cleveland (home) and Youngstown (Grandma’s–Yay!)

Blogging will thus be light

Two articles I’d been meaning to share earlier:

Newspapers still alive and kicking: Plain Dealer Publishing

and

Writing and Hard Times at the LA Times
By Catherine Seipp

No, newspapers aren’t doomed, but many seem to have failed to adapt in this age of the internet. With regards to the PD’s web presence, Cleveland.com leaves a lot to be desired, especially in terms of its UI and navigation.

It’s been a while since I took Int’l Relations in college, but a question about “Realists”.

If I’m not mistaken, don’t realists not necessarily believe in the role/effects of non-state actors in global politics?
(In contrast to the actions of nation-states)

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

O-H! – I-O! (and Tressel too)

….
This is the first time a Tressel-coached Ohio State team has run the table in the regular season….

Where was the Plain Dealer Editorial board during the 2002 National Championship season?

This is a piece from the Editorial Board no less!
(Does the Editorial Board even converse with the sports reporters?)

And yes–Tressel rules! Sweater vests for everyone!
[h/t NeoBabble]

Windows turns 21 years old today….

Now it’s old enough to buy alcohol
(is that a subtle hint of something?)

No more ‘hungry’ Americans: US govoernment says

Instead, today’s new term to learn is: “people with “very low food security.”

Um…okay…..

Hillary Clinton Spent $30 million to get re-elected.

Seeming that she was running against a virtual nobody, why did she spend so much? And on what?

Tonight’s (Ohio) Pick-4 numbers:

4-2-3-9

Sound familiar?

(Odds of this: 10,000:1)

An early rule of multiplication–when you multiply by zero, you always get zero.

Let’s examine an application of said rule:
Kerry: Botched Joke Won’t Affect 2008…

So when a guy with 0 chance for the nomination again says something won’t hurt him….of course it won’t, since he’s got 0 chance to begin with!

*Note, it’s only fair to say that there’s a very, very, very, very slim chance. Thus to simplify things, the number was round down to 0.

That’s the big question that a lot of sports commentators have been asking today.

In the wake of the Buckeye’s victory over Michigan, which solidified OSU’s #1 standing, the question of who is #2 begins.

A lot of it probably revolves around next week’s USC-ND game. Some say USC should be #2; but were ND to beat them what would that mean?

Michigan crushed ND early in the season, so wouldn’t that give them an edge over the Irish?

Or what about Florida? They’ve got one loss. But they’ve also played a lot of weak teams, like their win yesterday over a weak Div. 1-AA team?

This is the big question…

Overshadowed by yesterday’s “Game of the Century” in Columbus, was the fact that the Browns and Steelers are facing each other today (right now to be exact).

This is another one of those rivalries I grew up with. It’s a rivalry that continues, even after the Browns were out-of-town (curse you Art Modell!)

However, this year, neither the Browns or the Steelers are doing too well, as both teams are coming into the game at 3-6.

The (tongue-in-cheek) blog “God Hates Cleveland Sports” has a post on the rivalry.

Bo’s namesake punk group to disband

Their music made them a good punk group as well. Their wardrobe and such made it all the better.

Anyone else perplexed by the “Roughing the Center” call from the OSU-Michigan game earlier today?

The consensus amongst those who were at the party with myself was also one of confusion.

Apparently, a quick Google search reveals that it is indeed a penalty in the College game (page 118 of the 2006 NCAA FB Rulebook; Paragraph “q”, (A.R. 9-1-2-XXII-XXIV)

Even still, was it a valid call?

At the 96th St. 6-Line station:

“O-H”….

…..”I-O”

(across the platform as well!!!!
Same thing at the 86th St Station…
…then at 86 and Lex)

O-H-I-O! O-H-I-O!

WHAT A GAME!
(How soon till ESPN classic has it?)

Time to celebrate!

Already was heckled on Second Ave by some Michigan fans this morning (idiots). One of ‘em, in a passing car, who was quite rude earned a flip of the bird.

I’m planning on joining the Sister and some other Ohio ex-pats over on the UWS for some Buckeye-fan game watching festivities.

Have I mentioned that Ann Arbor is a whore?

And today’s “moment of Zen”……SCRIPT OHIO!

You know something is both bad and has reached a new low when Geraldo pans it:

Geraldo Rivera, another Fox News star, piled on and called the book “appalling.”

“I will bash this project every minute I have the opportunity to bash this project,” Rivera said [of OJ Simpson's book].–NYDN

It’s the end-users who should be found to be the ones at fault here, not the internet sites that are the intermediaries.

This time the police decide to go after prostitution via Craigslist (were they tired of going after MySpace?). Of course, Craigslist gets the bad rap in the case, merely because of the actions of a few bad users.

From an ESPN piece:

[In 1970] a Columbus judge dismissed obscenity charges against guy with a “F___ Michigan” T-shirt because it accurately reflected sentiments of community

Also worth reading this Fark thread

It’s hard to explain to those who aren’t OSU or Michigan fans the scope of this rivalry.

It’s a rivalry that pretty much dwarfs any other in sports: Yankees vs. Red Sox, Army v. Navy, Cowboys vs. Redskins, and so on.

This year the fact that the teams are ranked 1 and 2 only adds fuel to the fire–but passions would still be running very, very high even if both teams were having losing seasons. That’s what’s at stake.