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Category: The Gambit

  • Link Dump

    Squirrel attacks Padres\’ Bullpen. Kahn defends \’jokes\’. Charles Barkley: I had gay teammates. A Harmon Killebrew Story. Assorted commentary after the jump.

  • Best Comedy on Television:

    Alex: This category is so far out of my wheelhouse that I considered just nominating Mama\’s Family and ceding the floor. However, I do have a serious nomination: The Simpsons. Granted, I haven\’t watched a new episode in at least five years, but Homer Simpson deserves to be in the conversation for \’funniest character ever\’,…

  • Is the Twins season already over?

    wadE: Officially? No. It\’s only early May… er, mid-May, and the Twins are only 6.5 back of Detroit; and the Indians can\’t keep this up all year… right? (I\’ve already written off the Royals). But in actuality the season is over. The Twins can point to injuries as the reason they are struggling, but there…

  • Vikings Draft Reaction

    We\’re gonna try a new Gambit format, starting today. Every Tuesday/Thursday, Alex is gonna throw out a topic, and we\’re all gonna sound off. Topics will cover a very wide range, you can be assured of that. So without further ado, here\’s some armchair punditry about the 2011 Minnesota Vikings draft: wadE: Time has tempered…

  • America, F%^k Yeah!

    Well, that only took a decade, and a war in a country that he was never in, with the resultant loss of so many of our brave soldiers (absolutely no sarcasm whatsoever there – our service men and women *are* heroes), and the loss of a bunch of personal freedoms, and a debt that our…

  • Doin\’ the Butt (Drag)

    Yesterday, the C-level officers of simpleprop.com met at a local undisclosed pizza place for lunch. Here we compared ourselves to the framers of the constitution (true), came up with a far-fetched embezzlement scheme to make us wildly rich (true), and talked about the strategic future of this here website (not true). We also talked about…

  • R.I.P., Leslie Nielsen

    I learned late last night that Leslie Nielsen passed away, succumbing to complications from a recent bout of pneumonia. I was surprised to learn that he was 84 years old; to me, he seemed ageless, looking the same in 1980\’s Airplane! as he did in 2006\’s Scary Movie 4. His peak, though, was the Naked…

  • Filing Chapter :-<

    This is a post I had initially written in 2007, but never published. It\’s germane to a new post I\’m working on, so enjoy! PUBLIC NOTICE OF EMAIL BANKRUPTCY

  • The myth of cheap food

    Along the lines of a couple of books by Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food & The Omnivore\’s Dilemma) that I\’ve been reading lately, here is a opinion article from the Strib that caught my eye. The myth of cheap food.

  • Better Times Ahead?

    So I was reading an article in the Strib today about a murder in Minneapolis\’ north side. Generally reading about a murder doesn\’t signify good times, except when I caught that it was the city\’s 5th homicide of the year. Only the 5th? This time last year? Sixteen. Crime tends to trend with bad times……