Thursday miscellanea #362

Alan Rickman has died at 69 after a short battle with cancer. It’s been a devastating week for legendary British performers. RIP. Alabama has added national title #16 by defeating a very talented Clemson team that mostly scorched the Tide defense at will. Happy to have enough offensive and special teams tricks in the bag … Read more

Obama delivers final State of the Union address

Well, our esteemed president’s final State of the Union address was last night. It was full of self-congratulatory pap, false dilemmas, and comically insincere appeals for civility in our discourse. So, it was a standard Obama speech. It wouldn’t take a particularly clever software program to write them at this point. I don’t like what … Read more

David Bowie dead at 69

Legendary musician and actor David Bowie has succumbed to cancer at 69. David Bowie did so much, so capably, in so many different styles, in his career that it’s pretty much impossible he didn’t appeal to you at some time or another. Furthermore, his influence was tremendous. I really loved what he did to shape … Read more

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