Thursday miscellanea #488

Well, I don’t know that I ever considered it before, but with the championship games, the Army-Navy game, and the bottom-tier bowls, college football hits every Saturday in December now. I think Tua really did get rooked out of the Heisman in one bad game. That’s OK. I expect the second coming of Gino Torretta … Read more

BoWilliams.com and politics are getting a divorce

It’s time to steer BoWilliams.com away from politics. I don’t intend to take any posts that are already published down, but I’m not going to write any more overtly political ones. (Not here, anyway.) Now too many of us have developed an obnoxious and pernicious tendency to pour absolutely everything through a political sieve, and … Read more

The Star of Vengeance

All beloved Christmas lore has a starting point. You ever seen that cute oft-forwarded dialogue of Mulder and Scully of The X-Files exploring a typical Christmas tree and setting? It’s right here, if you’ve somehow never seen it. I actually know that piece’s origin. My friend Melanie’s writing group at Intergraph collaborated on it 20+ … Read more

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