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Dineen’s just about ready to pop, except that she’s not really ready to pop yet.

RedState reports that non-farm economic productivity has skyrocketed in the last four years - an astonishing 17%. The previous high-water mark was 12.8% for 1961 - 1960. Why is this important?
Productivity is a key factor that determines whether living standards are improving. Productivity gains allow companies to pay workers more from their increased [...]

Last month, photographer Thomas Hawk thought he got a great deal on a camera through an online store. Turned out, the Brooklyn-based company was running a bait-and-switch scam. According to commenters, Hawk’s experience with Brooklyn-based bait and switch scams was not unique.
One enterprising soul decided to check out some of the online [...]

Why, in the prime of the pre-holiday gift-buying season, is it still nearly impossible to find an Xbox360? Kotaku has the scoop.
Rumor 1: Last week Microsoft began denying a recall rumor that wasn’t circulating. Many of the blogs run by Msoft employees carried the same sort of denial: Despite what you hear, we’re [...]

Tom points to the debate between Jeff Harrell and Derek Powazek about taking pictures in public places where they are supposedly prohibited.

Dineen wants everyone to take a guess!
With Alex, we had people guess when he might arrive and what his name might be at the showers and at our big bar-b-cue. Since we aren’t having any pre-baby parties or showers this time around, I thought it would still be fun to have people guess when Thumper [...]

I was really afraid coming into this game. We were coming off a three-loss roll, and Tech had one of the strongest defenses in the country. I needn’t have worried. Somehow, the offense put together a complete game and the defense held firm.
I had forgotten that Frank Beamer’s Hokies haven’t [...]

Where was this team last week? 27 - 3, and the Noles have clearly unlocked the Hokies’ defense. Play-calling and execution on offense have been excellent, and our defense has held. It’s looking good!

Bobby Bowden has a Florida State Trooper escort at every game for security. It seems to be the same one all year long - a plum assignment for a highly senior trooper. Brent Musberger attributes the following quote to Coach Bowden’s current escort:
Coach, if you end up going to Idaho for a bowl [...]

Shades of the 90’s!
FSU ran a punt back, seemingly hundreds of yards but probably only dozens, for a touchdown. On the following drive by Virginia Tech, FSU intercepted deep in their own territory. Weatherford strung together several medium-deep passes capped off with yet another touchdown. For a brief second I [...]

At halftime, we have a 3 - 3 tie. I expected Virginia Tech’s defense to play well, and FSU’s defensive effort has been a pleasant surprise. Only time will tell if we can keep it up.

Coach Barnett, your team just blown out by 67 points and didn’t score a touchdown. What’s your reaction?
I’m surprised we lost the game 70-3, let’s say that.
I’m sure many other Northwestern alumni will join me in saying to you: couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

After last week’s miserable performance, the Seminoles can tonight salvage a rough season and get a bid to a BCS bowl by beating Virginia Tech to win ACC Championship.
When FSU joined the ACC, it was primarily a basketball conference. The original teams, Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia, Maryland, Clemson, Wake Forest, [...]

For crimes of unusual savagery, where rehabilitation is unlikely, where the criminal poses a direct and imminent danger to the public should he escape or be released, and where guilt is shown by virtually certain objective evidence, I think the death penalty is an appropriate tool of our criminal justice system. For criminals like [...]

So let’s say I drive up to a McDonald’s drive-through window with my son. The boy, who is two and a half, typically ges the kid’s meal. Being two and a half, he pretty much eats anything in nugget form, and disdains foods not available as nuggets (unless they serve as a vehicle [...]