Archive for February, 2009

The New Number Two

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Ah, the number two.  Not quite good enough to be number one, but better than all the rest of the numbers.  Why then, does it seem to get so little respect? 
Take baseball, for instance.    It’s a given that you need a good leadoff man, and the number three hitter is supposed to be your best [...]

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It’s Spring Training?

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

So I’ve been thinking.  I started this blog to to write about sports.  In particular, baseball.  In particular, New York Mets baseball.  And yet, what do we have in our first three posts?  A rumination of blogging itself, a dead monkey, and a comment on an awards show that I didn’t even see.
So why haven’t [...]

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Why the Oscars are Irrelevant

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Editor’s Note: The author didn’t actually see the Oscars presentation last night.  The author was too busy playing Call of Duty: World at War online with his fellow overgrown child friends.  However, the author feels the need to comment on the awards, while claiming he doesn’t care, because, as he told me, “It’s my effing [...]

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Race and Cowardice

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

On the occasion of black history month, our new Attorney General, Eric Holder, described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved racial issues.
The same day Holder called the United States a “nation of cowards,” always a terrific thing to say when holding a high-profile position [...]

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Welcome to My World

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Welcome to “The Attention Seeker” on pauljfesta.net.  This is my second foray into the chaotic, comical (intentionally or otherwise), and experimental frontier of blogging. 
And we truly are in the covered-wagon stage of the Blog, even though some have made high-profile inroads into news, politics and sports.  We don’t really know how blogs will ultimately fit [...]

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