Entries Tagged as 'About'

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Praise the lord and pass the scoresheet

It’s back everybody. After much frustration last night I was finally able to make internet-based radio work and the dulcet tones of Philadelphian sports announcers filed my ears. Then Jeremy Williams scored and I almost came in my pants. I held off, mostly because I was at work, where that sort of behaviour is, I [...]

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

We’re on the way back

It was a long, hard road back … but we’re finally about to post regularly again.
Actually, it was a nice vacation, and we were also busy wrting other things, but it amounts to the same nonetheless.
My city is still filled with garbage, the NHL is still on summer hiatus and even though Sarah Palin quit, [...]

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Out.Coached.

I know what you may be thinking but — despite the title in the header of this blog — this is not a website dedicated to the Chicago Blackhawks Game 4 performance.
In fact, one of the reasons we named the blog ‘Dirty Games’ is so that we could call that sort of cheap, thuggish and [...]

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Barack 'Eight Mile' Obama

I’m offering this without much comment, except to say that I hope Obama’s team is smart enough to dig this speech up and use it almost exactly the way this Youtuber has done. It’s a very effective argument.
As soon as I saw this, I thought of Eminem’s performance at the end of ‘Eight Mile’. If [...]

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Joe Biden has the Patience of a Saint (or Why Americans are Finally Ready for a Professor)

There’s an old jpeg, or maybe it’s a gif, floating around the Web.
It says: “Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you’re still retarded.”
The same could be said for “debating” Sarah Palin.
I’m not faulting poor Joe Biden. He did the best he could under difficult circumstances — [...]

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Everything you need to know about American politics and voters

Alternate title: The reason we’re going to start writing about hockey and basketball tomorrow.
From the Washington Post this morning:

In the Washington Post/ABC News poll released this week, 48 percent of respondents said the candidates’ positions on issues are their main concern, compared with 37 percent who said they place greater weight on personal qualities such [...]