Friday, January 7, 2011

Twitter Tracks: Football, Lame Ducks and More

Twitter tracks from December, 2010:

  • 2010 12 01 - Where politics, business and sport collide - Nate Silver's blog about TCU and the Big East: http://goo.gl/LiQPo
  • 2010 12 02 - Funny how that works. Headline: "If Democrats are the big spenders, why do Republican states get the money?" http://goo.gl/811HL
  • 2010 12 02 - The Moral Landscape, by Sam Harris: Science & morality are not different realms. Science has more to say about morality than religion does.
  • 2010 12 03 - Coco Avant Chanel (2009): No corset! Anarchy. A portrait of a talented, ambitious young woman on the rise. With Audrey Tautou! See it.
  • 2010 12 05 - Northwestern is coming to Dallas this season! and playing in the Cotton Bowl stadium on New Year's Day. Thank you, TicketCity Bowl.
  • 2010 12 05 - And Wisconsin is back in the Rose Bowl. God's in his heaven - All's right with the world.
  • 2010 12 07 - "Chaos" is Randy Moss's nickname. Headline: "Chaos could end Fisher's Titans tenure"
  • 2010 12 07 - 14 years after DART opens, Jacquielynn Floyd discovers commuter rail. Her scoop: It's less stressful than driving. http://goo.gl/aEO8u

After the jump, more Twitter tracks.


  • 2010 12 09 - Collapse (2009): Conspiracies. Peak oil. Credit bubble. Overpopulation. Doomsday prophet says worst case has begun. See it. Do something.
  • 2010 12 10 - The Soloist (2008): First Julliard, then a homeless shelter. Music, mental illness and fleeting moments of grace. Life is precarious. See it
  • 2010 12 12 - God gives Brett Favre's shoulder an extra day or two to heal. Headline: "Minn. Metrodome collapses in Midwest blizzard."
  • 2010 12 12 - The Cove (2009): Documentary of dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. Extraordinary film-making but does the world care? Japan doesn't.
  • 2010 12 14 - Ouch. "The Railroad Commission is a sleazy rogue body without an ounce of moral or political credibility" - Jim Schutze http://goo.gl/eDptv
  • 2010 12 14 - Green tip: Stop your newspaper when you're out of town. Greener tip: Stop your newspaper.
  • 2010 12 14 - Tinkers, by Paul Harding: As an old man is dying, his tinker's life is told at a deliberate pace in rich detail, like a still life in words.
  • 2010 12 14 - The Atomic Cafe (1982): History of atomic bombs told thru vintage newsreels and propaganda films. Why many distrust govt today. Why not all?
  • 2010 12 15 - Shouldn't that say Plano commute, Allen commute, McKinney commute, etc.? Headline: "Dallas Commute Worst in Nation"
  • 2010 12 15 - The headline quotes Steny Hoyer, but I think it's meant to read, "Lucy to Charlie Brown: Senate Has Votes Needed To Repeal DADT."
  • 2010 12 16 - They're talking about you, Senator Cornyn. Headline: "Senators vote to ban earmarks - then grab them"
  • 2010 12 16 - Remember Sen. William Proxmire and his Golden Fleece Award? He put thought into it, unlike McCain and his desperate appeal to Tea Party.
  • 2010 12 16 - Favre injury. Blizzard. Stadium roof collapse. Has there ever been a season that went so horribly wrong? Outside of the Cowboys, of course.
  • 2010 12 18 - Hope suffers a setback (#DREAM), but Change scores a big victory (#DADT)
  • 2010 12 19 - The high price Texans pay for tort reform. "Their Legislature has mandated a very low standard of care - almost no care" http://goo.gl/qp7JA
  • 2010 12 19 - The Kids Are All Right (2010): Not really. And no one else is, either. Moms. Teens. Lesbians. Sperm donor. Affair. Unconventional. Serious.
  • 2010 12 20 - The Wheel: "Shameful Sesquicentennial" http://goo.gl/QYTJn
  • 2010 12 20 - Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010): Still doing it, long after she quit being funny. Like about 1970. Now, it's like watching a car wreck.
  • 2010 12 21 - What does the Mavs win over the Heat mean? "Really, not much in December," said Dirk Nowitzki. The secret's out. NBA games are meaningless.
  • 2010 12 21 - Record heat in Texas. Summer snow in Australia. Blizzard in Europe. Floods in Calif. Don't worry. Weather is not climate. Keep whistling.
  • 2010 12 22 - Good decision. Mixed-use, transient-oriented development at Bush Station advances in Richardson. Doing it right. http://goo.gl/u2lkl
  • 2010 12 22 - Senate passes New START, 71-26. Treaty will cut strategic nuclear warhead arsenals in half. Another dividend from that Nobel Peace Prize.
  • 2010 12 23 - Senate passes 9/11 first responders aid package. Thank you, Jon Stewart, for shaming the GOP into dropping their obstruction. Comedy rules!
  • 2010 12 23 - Economic stimulus. Financial regulation. Health care reform. Nuclear arms reduction. DADT repeal. 9/11 aid. Best Congress in 45 years.
  • 2010 12 23 - Stefani Carter sends "Season's Greetings. Wishing you peace and joy through the holiday season." Does Jeffress know about her war on Xmas?
  • 2010 12 23 - Kudos to Notre Dame's Melissa Henderson. Berkner grad wins honor as nation's top collegiate women's soccer player. http://goo.gl/knKII
  • 2010 12 23 - Good news for fruitcake lovers, I think. Wassail fans, hang in there, it's coming back. And eggnog is holding steady. http://goo.gl/SU0K9
  • 2010 12 23 - My Flesh and Blood (2003): Think parenting is hard? Try 13 kids, most with special needs. Single mom has patience of Job. Kids inspire.
  • 2010 12 24 - Off to Target. Apparently, Christmas is considered a gift-giving occasion. Who knew?
  • 2010 12 26 - Mom's Christmas stocking knitting tip #27: Don't watch television when you're turning the heel.
  • 2010 12 27 - Krugman's Corollary to Godwin's Law: "The first person to bring up the Weimar hyperinflation is considered to have lost the debate."
  • 2010 12 28 - True Grit (2010): Jeff Bridges chews up the scenery. Coen Bros. add enough sardonic humor to keep you laughing with the movie, not at it.
  • 2010 12 30 - Army 16, SMU 14. I went to the game neutral, but the SMU drunks around me soon changed that. Midway thru 1st quarter, I was like "Go Army!"
  • 2010 12 30 - Sample outburst from SMU fan: "I'm standing until SMU leads. The people behind me hate me, but I'm not sitting down. ... TCU S-U-C-K-S."
  • 2010 12 30 - Eat Pray Love (2010): I wanted to dislike this narcissistic excess, but I couldn't. I saw my own globe-circling journey of discovery in it.
  • 2010 12 31 - Bloggermouse's "COR Best of... 2010" http://goo.gl/zywQx
  • 2010 12 31 - Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010): Pseudo documentary about street artists and the nature of art & celebrity. New Warhol or fraud? Or both?

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