The Vig

Thanks to my Hawks blog readers for finding their way over here.  I hope you take the time to subscribe to the RSS feed or at least bookmark me since I’ll be doing a lot of the same stuff here that I did for O-Live.  OregonLive gave me a tremendous platform for two seasons and […]

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Back in the late-80s, I was all about the baseball cards.  It wasn’t so much that I loved collecting them, it was that I loved watching them appreciate.  It was like playing the dot-com bubble as a 17-year-old.  Among my prized possessions were every variation of the infamous 1988 Fleer Bill Ripken “Fuck Face” card, the […]

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Evidently I’ve missed the memo about this 99942 Apophis meteor that may or may not want to kill us all on April 13, 2036 (Easter Sunday, natch…you can look it up!)  Anyway, Slog reports that the geniuses at NASA have put down their Jack and Cokes long enough to come up with a way to deflect […]

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Thomas Ricks, author of  Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq and frequent guest on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown program, will be at Powell’s tonight promoting the paperback release of his book.  Fiasco was initially poo-poo’d by the neocon establishment and their AM radio flying monkeys, but it’s now on the reading list at one military academy […]

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