The House of Representatives has joined the Senate in passing the tax cut compromise deal that extends all the Bush tax cuts for two years, extends unemployment benefits for 13 months, cuts the payroll tax by two percent next year as a temporary stimulus, and gives every American three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pair… Read more »
It’s easy if you try. At least, it’s easy here on The Living Room Times, ever since the Great Blog Outage of December 3 (about which your children will someday ask, “Where we you?”) forced me to temporarily shut down Twitter-to-blog imports, in order to get the site back up and running. I keep planning to re-enable them, any day… Read more »
Look: either the individual mandate is constitutional, or it’s not. And I, like many ObamaCare supporters, was admittedly too sanguine about this issue when it first came up. There are, I’ve come to realize, certainly some very legitimate arguments that it’s unconstitutional. (The Volokh Conspiracy is all over this.) It’s unknowable how the Supreme Court will eventually resolve the issue,… Read more »
So, I was thinking this morning about ringing in the New Year this December 31. Alas, the countdown to midnight promises, once again, to be a bit of an anticlimax, what with Loyette’s “Noon Year’s Eve” birthday party being the centerpiece of the day, and Becky most likely going to bed after the Times Square countdown at 10:00 PM Mountain… Read more »
Or perhaps we do: Everything you need to know about the new political group No Labels is contained in its slogan: “Not Left. Not Right. Forward.” It’s smug. It sounds like an Obama campaign catchphrase. And it ignores the whole reason politics exists, which is that not everyone agrees on what “Forward” is. … The group’s mission statement is filled… Read more »
“You are what your record says you are” is a truism in sports, first uttered by Bill Parcells, and repeated countless times by countless other coaches. But on Tuesday night, in a radio interview after a road loss to a not-very-good Wyoming team (4-6, RPI #295) dropped Denver to 2-9, coach Joe Scott offered a different perspective. Praising his team’s… Read more »
With apologies to those — all 2 or 3 of you — who were looking forward to “DU BallyCam 2: Electric Boogaloo,” a.k.a. DU Bally’s Excellent Adventure, live from Wyoming… I’ve had to change plans and not go to the game after all. Sorry.
It’s that time of year again… time to get the 6th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick’ em Contest underway! [IMPORTANT NOTE: When you go to the signup page, you’ll first be asked to “Create Your Account” with officefootballpool.com, including creating a “Screen Name,” which you’ll use to log in. Then, on the next screen, you’ll be asked to enter… Read more »
Eat your heart out, Andrew Sullivan. Dusk over downtown Denver:
As if the fuzzy math inherent in its conference name wasn’t bad enough, the Big Ten — after literally months of thought and consideration by its, uh, braintrust — today revealed a new logo and division names that are in the process of being universally mocked, ridiculed, and generally snarked into oblivion by the Twitter hordes. And with good reason,… Read more »
