President’s Day Open Thread – 02/18/2013

Posted on February 18, 2013 by jnc4p

Open thread for links, etc.

New York considers passing a law making previous employment condition a basis for a discrimination lawsuit when an applicant is denied a job. What could go wrong?

 

 

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New Years Open Thread

Posted on January 1, 2013 by ScottC

Just an open thread…that is all.

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Hometown in the NYT

Posted on December 20, 2012 by novahockey

A new mixed-used town center that I frequent was featured in the NYT. Thought I’d pass along so those who are interested can get a sense of life inside (or in this case barely outside) the beltway. My home is about 10 minutes from here. With the new HOT (High Occupancy Toll) lanes on the beltway, it’s about 3 mins and 30 cents. Or free if the whole entire family is in the car. If the development continues, it will be accessible by bicycle. Too much traffic for that now.

The story neglects the best part of the movie theater: the full service bar.

We considered the town homes that are for sale, but decided to stick with our home.

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Saturday Football Open Thread (Week 14)

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Michigoose

Big Game Day today:

Oklahoma is at TCU (line: OU, spread 8).  Boomer Sooner!  Update:  Sooners win 24 – 17 and have at least a share of the Big Twelve title.  Woo hoo!

Pittsburgh is playing USF (line: Pitt, spread 4.5).  Go, Bulls (Pitt has to win this to become bowl eligible)!  Update:  Pitt wins 27 – 3.

Florida State is at Georgia Tech in the ACC Championship (line: FSU, spread 13).  Yello, if you don’t watch the game we might get a big upset here!  🙂 Update:  FSU wins 21 – 15.

Texas is taking on Kansas State (line: K State, spread 11, which seems awfully large to me).  Hook ’em, Horns!  Update: KSU wins 42 – 24.

Nebraska is playing Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship (line: Nebraska, spread 2.5).  No matter who wins, ATiM is going to the Rose Bowl.  Woo hoo!  Update:  UW crushes Nebraska 70 – 24.  Whoa.

Update on an important but not ATiM-related game:  Alabama wins the SEC championship 32 – 28 when a Georgia player slipped after a pass reception on a first-and-goal in the last five seconds of the game.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

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Saturday Football Open Thread (Week 13)

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Michigoose

Abbreviated version this week.  Early games:  Texas lost to TCU, Arizona lost to Arizona State, USF lost to Cincinnati, Utah beat Colorado and Nebraska beat Iowa.  Up today:

Georgia Tech is at Georgia  Update: Georgia 42 – 10 

Michigan is at osu  Update:  osu 26 – 21

Boston College is at North Carolina State Update: NCSU 27 – 10

Michigan State is at Minnesota  Update: MSU 26 – 10

Oklahoma State is at Oklahoma Update:  Oklahoma wins a barn burner 51 – 48 in OT

Wisconsin is at Penn State Update: PSU 24 – 21 in OT

And, of course, Notre Dame is at USC  Update:  Notre Dame does it 22 – 13

May the right teams win!

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Saturday Football Open Thread (Week 12)

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Michigoose

By now most teams are in survival mode–keep enough key players healthy to finish out the season where you are and make it into a bowl game, or get key players experience so that next year is better than this one was.  Just four weeks to go after this. . . although there will be some grudge matches coming up.

Early games this week: UNC beat Virginia on Thursday 37 – 13, while yesterday Florida International beat Florida Atlantic 34 – 24 (what’s up with Florida, Mike, are you guys trying to rival Texas and California for number of schools with football teams?) and Air Force beat Hawaii 21 – 7.  Today’s games:

Northwestern is at MSU as we try to become bowl-eligible (and avoid a losing season) (line: Northwestern, spread 6.5)  I hope they’re wrong, but I’d have to go with the betting line on this one, dang it.

Iowa gets its turn in The Big House this weekend (line: UM, spread 17).  Let’s Go Blue!

Indiana plays Penn State (line: PSU, spread 14).  Comeback time for the Nittany Lions.

Virginia Tech is at Boston College (line: VT, spread 8.5).  That doesn’t seem very realistic to me.

USF is at Miami (line: Miami, spread 7).  Mike?  Could they do it?

Dook is playing Georgia Tech (line: Duke, spread 11.5).  Really?  Duke is turning into a football school, too?  Really??

Wake Forest goes up against Notre Dame (line: WF spread 22).  How?  What????  Wake Forest over ND in South Bend by 22?  Methinks my betting line website has been hacked on this one.

Minnesota is playing Nebraska in a Big Ten battle (line: Nebraska spread 19).  Brian and Paul get to duke it out this weekend!

osu is at Wisconsin (line: osu, spread 2.5).  Go Badgers, Go Badgers, Go Badgers!!!!

Syracuse is playing Mizzo (line: Missouri, spread 6.5).  A question here: how did this game get scheduled?  Shouldn’t both of these teams be in the hunt in their conferences?

Oklahoma is at West Virginia (line: OU, spread 10.5).  Boomer Sooner!

And Arizona is here in Utah (line: Arizona, spread 3).  We’ll freeze them, it’s only 48 degrees here right now.  Go Utes!

Texas gets to rest this week.  So what are you doing with your weekend, Mark?  May the right teams win, and the floor is open for commentary!

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Whew!

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Michigoose

well, jnc4p  was prescient.  And I’m glad it was as relatively clear cut as it was last night, in that Florida is still deadlocked but, as yello points out, irrelevant.  What do you want to see happen in the next four years–and for purposes here let’s not say gridlock (although I know a couple of you think that’s a good thing when it comes to federal government!  :-))

I, for one, am very glad that the PPACA is safe. . . although it’s too much to hope that it can be modified.  I’d like to see the DREAM Act actually become law and I’d like to see one actually liberal Justice get appointed to the SCOTUS.  I’m sure I’ll come up with more as the day goes on.

Plus, what happened with your various states?  I see that pot is now legal in Washington and Colorado (and that last I’m betting had something to do with CO going for Obama last night).

And about that fiscal cliff. . .

Forward!

P.S.  And I’m very glad that ATiM is around to see it happen.

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Election Day Open Thread

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Michigoose

I’m going to go ahead and put this post up tonight, since I’m going to go vote before work tomorrow and don’t know when I’ll be able to get it up.  Do any of you have big plans for the morrow?  After I reminded her that tomorrow is Election Day my boss moved our staff meeting back to 10:00 and told everybody to go vote before coming in to work; I don’t anticipate huge lines here (voter turnout in UT is abysmally low), but you never know.  Then tomorrow evening I’m going to some friends’ house to watch the returns with them and a couple of other folks.  Thanks to you guys, I’ve become the Recognized Expert among my friends on all things political. . . hoot!

Remember–vote early and often!

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Saturday Football Open Thread (Week 10)

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Michigoose

First off, thanks for covering for me last weekend, okie. I had to take care of some unfortunate work-related stuff, but you stepped into the breach beautifully. Second, I’m very, very glad that everyone seems to have made it through Sandy fairly unscathed. Whew!

Does anybody care about the early games? Thursday Ohio routed Eastern Michigan 45 – 14 and Miami (FL) beat Virginia Tech 30 – 12, while last night Washington was at Cal, and won 21 – 13.  Onto today’s offerings. . .

Oklahoma is at Iowa State in a Big Twelve battle (line: OU, spread 13).  This may be the noon (EDT) game to watch (ABC/ESPN3), unless you’re a Big Ten fan, in which case. . . Update: Oklahoma 35 – 13

Michigan is playing at Minnesota, so bsimon and I get to duke it out (line: Michigan, spread 12.5).  Wolverines eat Gophers, Golden or not, for breakfast.  Just sayin’.  Update:  Michigan, 35 – 13

Georgia Tech is playing Maryland (line: GT, spread 7).  This would be a good week for the Yellow Jackets to start making a comeback. Update:  Georgia Tech 33  – 13

Washington State is at Utah in what may be the battle for the basement (line: Utah, spread 12.5).  Should be beautiful weather, if nothing else–go, Utes!  Update:  Utah 49 – 6.  And yes, the weather is gorgeous–I’m sitting on my back patio on my chaise lounge with a light blanket.  Ah, fall!

Pittsburgh is venturing into South Bend, IN.  Can Notre Dame go 9 – 0? (line: The Irish, spread 18.5).  Brian Kelly certainly does seem to have the luck of the Irish this season.  Update:  and they stay perfect in one of the most exciting games I’ve seen in years.  Notre Dame 29 – 26 in 3OT.

And Nebraska is going to Spartan Stadium (line: MSU, spread 1.0).  Go, Spartans!  Oh, and Paul, what should we wager on this one?  Update:  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  Nebraska 28 – 24.  I owe you an Epic brew, Paul.

Illinois is playing osu (line: osu, spread 21).  This would be an especially sweet one if the Illini could pull through for me. . .  Blast:  osu 52 – 22

Penn State is at Purdue (line: PSU, spread 2).  This has been a tough week for PSU, hope their Saturday is better!  Update:  and it is.  PSU 34 – 9

Texas is at Texas Tech (line: Tech, spread 3.5).  Mark??  Update:  UT 31 – 22.  Hook ’em, ‘Horns!!

In the late games, UConn is playing USF (line: USF, spread 9).  Go Bulls!  Update:  USF wins 13 – 6!

And Arizona is playing at UCLA (line: UCLA, spread 3.0).  Go, Wildcats!  Errrrr:  Arizona got shellacked by UCLA, 66 – 10

Off this week: Wisconsin

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Monday Open Thread 10/29/2012

Posted on October 29, 2012 by jnc4p

On the off chance that Brent can’t do the morning report today due to the hurricane, here’s an open thread. Also, for those who haven’t seen it, I highly recommend the PBS Frontline episode on the 2012 election:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice-2012/

YouTube:

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