Don’t forget Sir Punch-a-Lot

Hold my Natty Boh

Sounds like it’s working, then. Can we crank this thing up to 11?

Actually I know quite a number of tall Larry’s. Larry Bird for example.

Counterpoint: Linda McMahon.

...Gore, Romney, Paul, Cuomo, Mitchell, Daley, Rockefeller, D’Alesandro/Pelosi, Murkowski....

I’ll take your word for that, but so what? All you’ve done is explain how nepotism works in that specific field. But it’s still nepotism and still illustrates the broader point about family being more important than skill.

You also have the Ripken family. One of whom became someone, others didn’t, or at least not yet, but all of whom got early breaks in the Orioles organization, and many would argue moved up the farm system much faster, because they were the get of Cal Ripken, Sr.

In sports it’s easier to sort out the chaff from the…

I only had 3 minutes to write that. I didn’t have time for politics where it’s meritocracy for thee but not for me.

It is in all these other lines of work, too, or hadn’t you noticed?

I’m glad the rest of American society doesn’t work this way. Now excuse me while I listen to music by Alan Thicke’s son, Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter, and Loudon Wainwright III’s son and then watch a movie with Rocky Johnson’s son or maybe one with Robert Pine’s son, Patty Duke’s son or Goldie Hawn’s daughter. Or maybe…

Well put, but acts of greatness are usually in situations that trigger sympathy.

Probably the only 11 still in full uniform.

Did anyone else feel bad for the Saints as they returned to the full length of the field in a trot-of-shame for the PAT? I know why they have to do that play, I guess, but it seemed needlessly cruel. Like Caesar parading conquered people through the streets of Rome.

I call bullshit on the FDR Polio story. People knew. They held FDR Birthday Balls to raise money for Polio from 1934 to 1940 for god’s sake. Why did everyone think that was? His law partner, Basil O’Connor was the founding director of two charities to fight polio and treat polio patients. Several articles mentioned…

Oh, it’ll happen. According to my “Re-boot” watch, Lost is due for some sort of revival in about 18 months. With our luck, they’ll do the Broadway musical version first.

While I was attending school, there were some very popular majors where undergraduates could get a degree and not once attend a class taught by a full-time, tenure track professor. Four years of nothing but part-time, contingent faculty making less than minimum wage.

I watched while my DIV I football team won two national championships in football and one in basketball and built multi-million dollar facilities for teams we didn’t have yet, all while they closed down my graduate program, the library put a short hiatus on buying books, and we were dangerously close to losing our…

They’ll put you right to work on the Penske file.

Same here. And in the internet age it is easier than ever to find a full service gas station in your area. Of course, it’ll cost you, but full service has had ridiculous mark-ups compared to self-serve since the latter was introduced. (Speaking as a former gas jockey I can also attest that if you pump your own gas you…