Monthly Archives: September 2011

Ohio State – Colorado: notes and thoughts

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Sure. Colorado wasn’t very good.

But after the rancid Ohio State performance from a week ago, like many Buckeye fans, I was only cautiously optimistic about this afternoon’s game against Colorado.
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Facebook changes are good – take a deep breath and let me explain


Listening to people talk about the changes to Facebook is a lot like listening to people talk about politics; it’s a lot of angry comments from the clueless.

I have been on Facebook for nearly seven years, and about once a year, the site undergoes major changes. The changes are always (and I mean always) met with anger and criticism. The way how some people react, you would think that their lives were going to be irrevocably impacted. If people got as outraged over famine as they do to changes to Facebook, no one in this world would ever starve.
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Justification for Favoring the Death Penalty and Being Pro Life

Read a couple of interesting articles last week in the Washington Post. Both discuss the death penalty. The first article, “Like Rick Perry, most ‘pro-life’ Americans OK with death penalty” looks at how politically conservative Americans are overwhelmingly pro-life, and also, overwhelmingly in favor of capital punishment.

The second article, titled “American Christians and the Death Penalty” is an opinion piece by the highly regarded British New Testament Scholar; N.T. Wright. Both articles attempt to point to a contradiction between holding a favorable view towards capital punishment while also being pro life.
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Ohio State – Miami notes and thoughts

Ohio State 2011 Season.
Game 3, at Miami, Fla.

It was just one game.

I tried not to panic after the Buckeyes struggled with Toledo last week. Many were down on OSU quarterback Joe Bauserman, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt. After the Buckeye loss at Miami this evening, I don’t think Bauserman is viable. He isn’t throwing passes that can be caught.
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Where I was on 9/11


photo courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons. Julien Menichini

This week, so much has been written about 9/11. So many documentaries and television specials have aired. I haven’t really watched any of it, nor have I read the articles. It’s not that I don’t care about what happened a decade ago. I care a great deal. Like all other Americans who remember that day, September 11, 2001 left an indelible mark on me. But I don’t need a documentary to remember what happened. It’s a day about which I constantly think.
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