When it got to 49-0 we left. It was halftime.
New Mexico beat San Diego State this evening 70-7; a 4-4 team over a 1-6 team. You’d think it would be fun to see, but somehow you just knew from the first touchdown it would be a blowout.
Indeed, I have witnesses to my prediction there would be 69 points just like USC over Washington State. I made my prediction when it was still only 14 to nothing early in the first quarter.
I hope the New Mexico players enjoyed themselves more than we did.
NewMexiKen has spoken before an audience of a few hundred from time-to-time — for me at least, it was always a rush.
I wonder what this is like.
Award-winning reporter Charles Duhigg of The New York Times on This American Life, October 11, 2008:
The blame for this is absolutely bipartisan. Both parties deserve a great deal of blame for what happened with the subprime mess. And to try and pin the blame on one party or the other really muddies the issue. A crisis like what’s going on right now, can’t develop without everyone fueling it. I mean we’re looking at the biggest crisis in a century. That only happens when basically everyone drops the ball. So there’s enough blame to give to both parties here.
Fannie and Freddie were part of the problem, but not the cause of the problem.
Neither McCain nor Obama have any particular claim to doing either right or wrong.
(We know Duhigg is good because he’s a native New Mexican.)
Reputedly a true story via FiveThirtyEight.com:
So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, “We’re votin’ for the n***er!”
Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: “We’re voting for the n***er.”
America gets more like Rock Ridge every day.
President Bush, this morning:
“In the long run, the American people can have confidence that our economy will bounce back.”
John Maynard Keynes:
“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
“The Democrats are terrified. They’re convinced something terrible is going to happen because something terrible always happens. . . .
“It’s like the curse of the Bambino. The Democrats fear they’re under a jinx because they committed some sin, the political equivalent of trading away Babe Ruth. If so, it probably started with nominating Joe Lieberman for vice president.”
… today would be a holiday.
It’s Chuck Berry’s birthday. He’s 82.
While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together. It was his particular genius to graft country & western guitar licks onto a rhythm & blues chassis in his very first single, “Maybellene.” Combined with quick-witted, rapid-fire lyrics full of sly insinuations about cars and girls, Berry laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance. The song included a brief but scorching guitar solo built around his trademark double-string licks. Accompanied by long-time piano player Johnnie Johnson and members of the Chess Records house band, including Willie Dixon, Berry wrote and performed rock and roll for the ages. To this day, the cream of Berry’s repertoire—which includes “Johnny B. Goode,” “Sweet Little Sixteen,” “Rock and Roll Music” and “Roll Over Beethoven”—is required listening for any serious rock fan and required learning for any serious rock musician.
NewMexiKen once again recommends the daily (weekdays) 20-30 minute NPR: Planet Money Podcast as an excellent, informative means to learn about and follow the current financial crisis.
All of this week’s shows were worthwhile.
The Planet Money blog is useful, too.
