Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Tom Brady and the Patriots are 3-0 in the playoffs versus the top regular season defense. In those games the Pats average 31 points. The Broncos were the top regular season defense this season.... Jamie Foxx is the man (but what about the un-named off work EMT who was even more important to the successful rescue?)... Come on - just one taste... I think it is beyond hypocritical for any state that participates in a lottery to ban people from playing daily fantasy sports... Heh heh... Meat Slurry would be a good name for a band. Or for a companion entree to Golden Corral's Chocolate Waterfall... Perspective - if you had a minute of silence for each person killed in the Holocaust you would have to be silent for eleven and a half years... Add Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River to the places I want to visit... How great would it be if someone replaced Stephen Hawking's computer voice with the voice of Emo Phillips?... President Obama's foreign policy in a nutshell - he attended the funeral of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah but skipped the funeral of Britain's Margaret Thatcher...

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Wise words from Frank Zappa

- Interesting long read on the seriously messed up 1982 draft by the Tampa Bay Bucs

- On the other end of the spectrum - how Red Auerbach assembled the 1986 Celtics starting five. Did not know about the Ralph Sampson angle. There should be a follow up on how Red put together the bench because it was perhaps the greatest bench in NBA history.

- Fantastic look into why daily fantasy sports sites are for suckers

- The "economic bomb" Saudi Arabia faces because of low oil prices

- Heh heh

- John Stuart Mill was a fascinating character (and this review of his biography is so long that reading the book might not be necessary)

- Heh heh - Denmark has had enough of Bernie Sanders

- This picture of Pete Rose cannot be unseen

- Maybe HGH does stand for "head growth hormone"