In Praise of Folly

A look at the absurd world in which we live, through the lenses of popular culture, sports and politics.

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

I Feel the Need ... the Need for Adderall

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Adderall junkies could be in for trouble scoring their favorite drug on campus:  New York Times . It appears that students are increasingly ...
Monday, April 29, 2013

High Expectations Meet Reality

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Arsenal Draw First Blood ... Settle for a Draw

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In the second minute of the game against Manchester United today, Walcott snuck in behind Evra and a perfect pass from Rosicky was well fini...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Arsenal Win, Barely .... Barca All But Out of UCL

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It has been a jam-packed five days in European football with action across the leagues and the first legs of the Champions Leg semifinals ye...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Erik Rush: "Kill them All!"

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Erik Rush the author and columnist, the same Erik Rush who along with much of the media wrongly assumed the Oklahoma City Bombing was perp...

Media Frenzy

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Is it just me, or has the real news and celebrity news seemed to have congealed into one indistinguishable miasma? Of course theorists of th...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Same Old Story ... Arsenal Blow Big Opportunity (0-0)

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Arsenal had a big chance to grab Champions League qualifying by the scruff and take it home. Instead they earned a hard-fought point in a ma...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Damien Omen 2013

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I have long harbored suspicions that the Canadian haircut that sings, Justin Bieber, is the devil incarnate -- the augur of the end of the w...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Arsenal Wait Until Late ... Win Again

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Arsenal fans at the Emirates, in front of TVs at home or in pubs across the world must have been feeling that sinking feeling that has plagu...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Movie Review: Seven Psychopaths (2012)

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I have been a fan of Martin McDonaugh since I first saw The Beauty Queen of Leenane at a theatre in San Diego in 2000. Adept at catchy, rhyt...

Margaret Thatcher RIP

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It's been interesting to read the largely laudatory eulogies that have emerged in papers since the death of Prime Minister Margaret That...
Monday, April 08, 2013

Arsenal Win 2-1

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Arsenal won a huge road game over West Brom 2-1 on Saturday putting themselves in the driver's seat to grasp a top four finish from a di...

Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

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Maya ( Jessica Chastain )  is a seemingly-single-minded CIA operative who we first meet during the interrogation and torture of a prisoner f...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Misguided Paternalism (Education Style)

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Educational reform ov er the past decade or so has focused predomina ntly on market models of reform, privatization pushes, stand ardized te...

Cynicism and Politics

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If one watches television or movies these days, there is a tendency to feel that an "honest politician" is an oxymoron along the l...
Monday, April 01, 2013

Previewing the Trailer Previews, Oh My!

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Hollywood long ago made the preview into a n art form unto itself. It is now the case that the preview often surp asses the film in quality,...

Arsenal Secures Needed Victory

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Arsenal finally looked like themselves at the Emirates again and picked up three needed points on Chelsea, who slacked off to defeat at Sout...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Quarantine The Quarantiners!

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Kansas has just passed a law that, among other things, allows medical and other institutions to quarantine HIV/AIDS patients . ( Salon ) . ...

DOMA Dying

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The tide has seemed to turn on the question of the Defense of Marriage Act. While one never knows what this surprisingly conservative court ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Bill Gates Pledges $100k to New Condom

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You certainly can't please all the people all of the time, nor some of the people most of the time but there appears to be a group that...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

The Haves

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The haves have been feeling pretty victimized of late, what from the Occupy movement to another Obama victory (he's just not that nice t...
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