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Thursday marginalia

I think this game is actually recycled from a couple years ago but it’s still insightful nonetheless. (Via.) More on the so-called battle between print and internet book reviewers. Christopher Hitchens’ s God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything evidently helps contribute to The New Yorker (via) and The Nation (via) joining the […]

Just say yes

Truth be told, I am a very fortunate man with an excellent life. This month I will have been married 26 years to a woman I love more today than ever (and who, for reasons I will never ever ever understand, says the same about me.) I have three bright, self-reliant and basically wonderful kids, […]

Congrats to the Stampede

The Sioux Falls Stampede are bringing home the first Clark Cup in franchise history after defeating Waterloo 3-0 tonight. Quite an accomplishment for a team that started the season 0-5-1 and spent much of the season in or near last place in the USHL’s strongly competitive western division.

The coaches and players, especially goalie Matt […]

Weekend marginalia

A couple notes before I head off to listen to the Stampede play for the Clark Cup championship:

A CNN employee’s wishful thinking? Next month is the third annual Reading The World, in which independent booksellers promote international writers. We, of course, don’t have any participating bookstores but here’s a list of this year’s titles. […]

It’s 80 degrees again today so

let’s talk hockey.

I know. Most of the U.S. is either basking in the return of baseball or watching NBA playoffs. But hockey season ain’t over (that’s a topic for another day) and there’s a couple items that have been on my mind.

First, of course, is to wish the Stampede good luck in the […]