What you will find here

Well let's see what this will look like for now. I currently live inside the beltway, so politics is going to be found here potentially quite often. I will probably point out things that I find interesting rather than go into too much analysis. (There are too many learned people on the web who I could only bask in their shadow (see links on the right). And I am not talking to you Tim Russert or the rest of the Washington Press corps. You need to start doing your job like Dana Priest.) Sports will also be found here. I am a passionate Philadelphia sports fans -- love us or hate us, but we care deeply about our sports. Science will also find a place here because of my passion for exploring the intersection of science and society. As for personal stuff, it might come in time, but not to start. I will get around to explaining the title in due time. So away we go with sports today...

Philly already has a complex about being an overlooked major city because of its proximity to the Big Apple, couple that with the fact that the last championship in the city was 1983 -- the quickly forgotten Sixers -- and we are really chomping at the bit these days. Yes, we have been in championship series and games in all of the sports since then, but sadly no parades down Broad. The thing you have to realize about Philly fans is that if you are a blood and guts player, they will love you forever. If you look like you are taking a play off or are aloof, it is going to be a long year for you -- and that goes for you Santa. We boo because we care not because we are mean. Suck it up or get out like Billy Wagner did. Baby.

If this were a normal year, the posts would be chalk full of Flyers posts as the prepare for the playoffs. Opps, they laid a huge egg this year and now occupy the basement of the league. It is a weak draft this year, so looks like they will be adding a player we will hopefully see in 3 years. The Phils are in spring training and I don't pay attention to them until they fly north. The Sixers will be good in a few years, I not a huge basketball fan (a post on why basketball players have no guts soon). That leaves the Birds, which don't start playing until September. They draft in late in the first round again this year, and they rarely make a draft day move, so I don't really care about the draft. And Andy Reid family problems are his family's and they will not be fodder here.