The Sunshine Empire

Biggus: Want to get mad at Mike Freeman? Read this: http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/13556024/latest-failed-ticket-push-shows-jags-endangered-species-in-jacksonville?tag=headlines;other me: that doesn’t anger me Freeman I’m sure still carries a grudge against the city, but I think he was plenty deferential in the piece Biggus: Really? He made no mention of the fact that their off-season push to sell tickets has mostly worked. [...]

Biggus: Nebraska is supposed to make an official announcement of their move to the Big 10 today. me: oh damn with just one going, does the big 12 just grab TCU? or Boise State? Biggus: Missouri will also probably jump. They just haven’t said anything yet. Or hadn’t as of yesterday when I heard the [...]

I’ve been watching several disparate economic trends across the globe that have me interested. In the United States the economic recovery has been progressing for several months, but job growth has hit a stumbling block, and European debt concerns have the bull market being beaten back all of the sudden by a rather surely bear. [...]

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I’ve been stuck with a dearth of things to discuss today. It has been a cloudy, rainy blah sort of day that I’ve spent mostly chatting about a myriad of topics. Lets just randomly run them down. So today is Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum’s 105th birthday. If you don’t know who that is then you are [...]

I was just pondering the SCOTUS decision that removed limits for corporate cash in elections and the elated position of most conservatives. They all are celebrating like Saints fans on Bourbon street last night. Jolemite sent me a Fox News opinion piece (isn’t everything that comes from Fox opinion) and he was absolutely apoplectic over [...]

My football season is over now that the orange & blue and teal & black are no longer playing games, but the coaching carousel is keeping my interest this offseason. Our first stop on the carousel, Los Angeles. University of Southern California Trojans head coach Pete Carroll is leaving the program he led to multiple [...]

The world tour stop is coming to an end and as I write this I am driving (riding) through Mississippi on my way back to the great state of Florida. The trip could not have gone any better. As we entered New Orleans you could see lingering damage from Katrina five years on. From I-10 [...]

As we reach the end of the first decade of the 21st century the news is filled with not only year end reviews but also decade end reviews. I began this decade in a simple and unglamorous fashion. In late 1999 my girlfriend’s parents at the time were paranoid Trilateral Commission types convinced that the [...]