Movie reviews

I watched October Sky while up in Portland this morning for a donation at the Red Cross. It’s a feel-good film about a group of late ’50s high school boys in a coal mining town who are inspired by the Soviets’ Sputnik satellite to build their own...

Last game 2002

Played the final game of my Men’s over-30 team today. Had a goal and assist against a chippy and undermanned English squad out of Portland. Relatively fun game in the sense that nobody got hurt, and I got my exercise. Final was something like 7-2. I dunno. I...

A Beautiful Mind

Erin begins week 15 today, and all is happiness. Baby is getting bigger, Erin’s getting bigger. These are the days of peaches and cream because presently there is very little inconvenience to her (and, therefore, to me). No fatigue going on. No morning sickness....

The hangover

And now we get to deal with the hangover. Nationally, it looks like all of last night’s results will stand. Two immediate results of this are that the federal judiciary will grow even more conservative and that any hope of a balanced budget are long gone. I...

I love election night

I love election night. I don’t necessarily love the results, mind you, but there’s always something about seeing the will of the people expressed that I find exciting. The Bush v. Gore battle of two years ago may have been powerfully depressing in some...