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baseball books and i need a third b baseball books and i need a third b one guy s random thoughts on things of interest books baseball and whatever else catches my attention in today s hectic world thursday november 06 2008 it s over the elections are over and the big result wasn t a surpise barack obama will be our next president on the comment board an old friend expressed her absolute joy in the outcome well i voted for him too but a little less enthusiastically than ang though my candidate got knocked out in the previous round i like obama well enough as with any president i have some reservations but i think he s smart he s obviously committed to being president something i began to doubt about mccain during the campaign he has some good ideas and he s surrounded himself with some very good people but america is not going to become radically different at noon on january 20 2009 i m not blind to the historic nature of this election but i worry that some of his supporters are projecting messiah like powers onto obama i watched his victory speech tuesday night and i noticed the faces in the crowd before his speech began it reminded me of film i ve seen of when the beatles came to america i swear i saw people crying not his wife close advisers etc but regular people i think it s good that a politician has the power to inspire people again but he s just a politician just as any other president president obama will have to deal with senators representatives judges lobbyists activists etc i do think he will implement some new policies good and bad that shift the country s direction but january 21st will not find us living in the united states of obama i m not sure everyone realizes that bob dylan for instance was quoted at a concert on election night as saying i was born in 1941 pearl harbor things have been in darkness ever since things are going to change that pisses me off for two reasons first the idea that the country has been in darkness since 1941 c mon bob seriously that s just stupid second if you do believe the past 67 years have been all doom and gloom then how can you believe that one man will magically bring the sunshine it was a good soundbite and it expresses the belief that obama is a new brand of politician here to unite the country and save the day i m not sure i don t want to trot out the usual right wing meme on his record but obama has shown up as a reliable liberal vote why would he suddenly become concillatory and reach out to others especially when he s going to have a big majority in washington and the longest honeymoon period of any president since at least reagan many people will not like his proposed changes and they ll do all they can to block them obama himself will sell out on some things he campaigned on i m hoping he does that on card check and free trade issues he ll also have to pander supporting policies he doesn t really believe in to repay electoral support i m hoping he does not do that on card check and free trade issues in the end i m hoping that he can inspire some new confidence in america the good and he can make some changes that will move us off some of the tracks we ve been on the past 8 years i believe he can at worst though even if he turns out to be just another tax the rich expand the government president well the historic nature of his victory is something special and has value in its own right so i m sorry if i m not excited enough about this event but i really do look forward to seeing what the obama administration can accomplish p s i have a post in me about that last point the specialness of his victory but i ll have to save that for another day just a teaser it involves tee martin and a relative of mine posted by st caffeine 1 27 pm 0 comments tuesday november 04 2008 election day yes today is the day although one student missed my bonus question last week asking what event of national interest was going to occur today i m kind of excited by the idea of voting though the choices this year don t inspire me regardless i take voting seriously and as is my custom i m wearing an ironed shirt and tie today needless to say my students were freaking out they assumed they were in trouble i told them they weren t though i think a little fear in the student population is not really a bad thing so anyway today is voting day i ve made my decisions on the big race and most of the state and local races i m still not sure why we vote on the license commissioner but after my horrible experience registering my jeep a couple of years ago there s no way i m voting for the incumbent the oddest contest though is the race to replace longtime u s rep bud cramer i m still suspicious of the way in which this opening arose see bud was one of those congressional lifers but then all of a sudden he up and decide not to run for reelection just a week or so before the deadline for entering the race local conventional wisdom held that there was some scandal in bud s closet and we all waited for it to pop out nothing has happened though so now i m thinking it was all orchestrated so bud could hand pick his successor given the short time there was only one democratic candidate who had the name recognition the money and the desire to get in though there was only one democrat there was a well connected republican just waiting for his chance to take over from bud now the race has turned nasty there are charges of intentional undertreatment of cancer patients softness on terrorism ties to big money oil companies etc the funniest thing though is that one of the candidates recently has steered away from the mudslinging choosing to emphasize his own good points he s conservative independent pro life and anti tax did i mention this is the democratic candidate strange world huh i m just glad it only comes around every couple of years peace out posted by st caffeine 1 37 pm 1 comments monday october 27 2008 aw i missed it yesterday was world zombie day and i missed it further cementing its reputation as a nerd geek town though huntsville had a strong showing on sunday as sort of a preview to the inevitable zombie takeover of the world more than 100 people dressed up as the undead and took to the streets of downtown huntsville for the second annual zombie walk yes there are 100 people in huntsville who not only are willing to be seen lurching down a public street dressed in tattered clothing and smeared with fake blood and related goop but they actually took the time and made the effort to do so i guess i view potential zombies as being less on the ball when the zombie takeover does happen i guess huntsville will not be a good place to be me i spent world zombie day checking out some sketches by this guy silly me posted by st caffeine 3 02 pm 0 comments friday october 24 2008 small world every once in a while i m reminded up just how small the world can be what brought about this epiphany essentially it was facebook some of you who know me well may be very surprised to learn that i have a facebook account in my defense i feel that i was led to facebook under false pretenses i was told that all the caffeine cousins use facebook to keep in touch since i didn t have an account well i was just missing out on much good family fun hence i gave in and created an account it turns out though that for the most part it s one cousin who spends a lot of time on facebook now i love cousin sandee dearly so i don t mind the fact that i now am better able to keep up with her but the whole facebook thing has been pretty useless as far as i m concerned then weird things started to happen an old college pal did track me down via fb and i thought that was kind of cool last week though i got a real blast from the past when i got a friend request from a name that stirred vague high school memories sure enough it was an old teammate from my high schol nerd bowl days i finally got around to agreeing to be his friend and then i almost immediately got a request from another old high school friend who also went to ole miss with me it turns out she works at a really small college in louisville where i happen to know someone on the business faculty finally i had a fb message this morning from a girl er woman i guess now that i sort of knew in high school but never was friends with she d seen my tv appearance from a few weeks ago and just wanted to say hey i feel like i ve moved back to lawrenceburg anyway that s about it for today i ve got a bunch of tests to prepare for next week so i d best get to it posted by st caffeine 10 39 am 0 comments wednesday october 22 2008 an education rant i m quite tired of endless debates about how to improve our schools some issues seem hard to resolve while other solutions appear fairly obvious i am pretty darned sure though that the dallas tx independent school district does not have the answer the dallas isb is upset that so many freshman as high as 20 fail to advance to 10th grade the solution come up with some new rules the highlights homework grades should be given only when the grades will raise a student s average not lower it teachers must accept overdue assignments and their principal will decide whether students are to be penalized for missing deadlines students who flunk tests can retake the exam and keep the higher grade teachers cannot give a zero on an assignment unless they call parents and make efforts to assist students in completing the work high school teachers who fail more than 20 percent of their students will need to develop a professional improvement plan and will be monitored by their principals for middle school the rate is 15 percent for elementary it s 10 percent also note this is on top of last year s innovation that no student can be assigned a six weeks grade lower than a 50 i don t know just how to express my dismay i did though enjoy some of the rationalizations offered up by isd big wheels one said we want to make sure that students are mastering the content of their classes and not just failing busy work well that s a noble goal but according to the new rules only 40 of a student s grade is determined by test grades and at least 20 must be determined by class work class work sounds a lot like the dreaded busy work to me i find the whole thing depressing but this is not really an unexpected outcome of the much ballyhooed goal of standardization that is sweeping the education industry these days think about it when you standardize are you going to standardize up to a more difficult level that fewer students will master or down to give yourself improved measurable outcomes looks like dallas has decided posted by st caffeine 11 56 am 0 comments monday october 20 2008 big orange ha in honor of the vol abroad i give you a rather lame joke have you heard president bush is thinking of making phil fulmer ut football coach for the time being the new director of fema no why because of how quickly he can evacuate over 100 000 people yes attendance is down at vols games this year here s a story on the local business impact and here s one from the student perspective posted by st caffeine 11 17 am 0 comments thursday october 16 2008 football quote though i don t really pay attention to football until the world series is over i couldn t help but notice this quote from vince young in a story about how the media is making him out to be a bad guy says vince i m a great guy a great humble guy young told msnbc com i ve done a whole lot in my career in just three years and for the media to do stuff like that to try to make me look bad for some reason i don t know why but they re just writing my legacy my emphasis i know extemporaneous speaking is tricky and quotes can be taken out of context but well i just don t know what to say posted by st caffeine 12 27 pm 0 comments about me name st caffeine view my complete profile links marginal revolution the sports economist the vol abroad mel s diner sabermetric research previous 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