The two best high school football teams in Sacramento squared off tonight on ESPN2. Final score: 49-14 Grant. I had no idea Grant was ranked #4 IN THE NATION (!!). Wow. It showed. I love Grant’s QB Terry Shine. Man can that kid play the game. Then again, Folsom’s QB Dano Graves has a lot [...]

“That’s the most sobering thing that Pete Rose, Roger Clemens, or anyone who tries to outrun the truth, has to face: The truth is never out of breath.” -Johnette Howard, ESPN columnist. Amen. “The truth is never out of breath.” Amen.

Suggested reading: The Great Divorce by CS Lewis. He is by far one of my favorite writers/thinkers/philosophers/apologists, and this is one of his most thought-provoking works.

The mayor’s celebrity wedding to school czar Michelle Rhee has been canceled. No one’s buying the official reason (“we just want a smaller event with immediate friends and family”) so here are the top 10 probable reasons.
10. Angelo Tsakopoulos said his house was no longer available for the reception after learning his name had been [...]

Lest we be seduced by the allure of iPads and “advances in science,”  to be sure, we the people of  the 21st century, are not more evolved than our medieval ancestors.  We may be the new management, but we are every bit as hopelessly depraved as the old management.

Guess who said this:  “I want women and men to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they’re always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.” Did you guess Charles Manson? Marilyn Manson? SATAN??  Bzzz. Wrong.  Lady GaGa.

UPDATED 8/28, 2010. Word is Sacramento Magazine has awarded North Natomas its #1 neighborhood award. Having spent nearly ten years of my life living in North Natomas, I’d like to share a few thoughts on this.
First, the incoming councilperson might want to downplay the award.  Granted, the realty community is probably thrilled about it  (understandable), [...]

“Our awesome president has once again been vilified on a horrific billboard in Missouri that compares him to homicidal maniacs Hitler and Mao Tse Tung. When asked for his reaction, the president said, “It’s horrifying. Disgraceful. Ignorant. And I hope and pray someone tears it down before the Chinese [...]

Gay marriage. I must confess I am profoundly confused by the whole thing. It goes against everything I have ever been taught. It wracks my brain and tortures my sensibilities. That is, I have always firmly believed from my head to my toes that the point was to break OUT of prison.. not [...]

Dear Mr President, this is why the word  “hope” should never be used as the basis of a political campaign.