Linkage

God bless TCG's secondary alma mater. Although I can't say I really blame the professor. I mean, how can you possibly prepare a COM grad for post-college life without teaching them about drinking?

Makes total sense...I mean, from a public policy perspective of course...

I'm slowly being persuaded that maybe New Hampshire is on the right path. Cool villages, beautiful scenery, lots of beer, candlepin bowling -- find me a good modified-fastpitch softball team and I may be all set to move.

An argument for taxes

College professor figures the services he spends $9,000 annually in taxes for would cost him $56,000+ in private sector if Libertarians had their way.

Artsy-fartsy pools

Once in a while my artsy-farsty side gets tickled.

This is one of those times.

How about "Sun-burned Irishman pink"?

I'm not really going to add any comments to this.

I just thought its definately worth posting.

NH knows how to party!

Here's a map depicting the highest rates of drinking per capita. Massachusetts comes in at 9.3 liters annually, which puts us just above Greece and right below the Netherlands. (You can suck it, Texas!)

Most surpringly is our Granite neighbors to the north: New Hampshire residents apparantly drink the second-highest amount of alcohol of any country, state, territory in the world! Only Luxembourg clocks in higher!

I'm not sure if its surprising or unsurprising that Washington D.C. is third. Guees you can't blame them -- Bush and the GOP's will drive anyone to drink!

FOLO: Yea, apparantly I was trying to set the world record for most exclamation points in a blog posting. It's like I'm a 12-year-old girl talking about Zac Effron.

And with the number 3 pick in the 2008 draft...

OK, it's well past time that I start this thing back up. No more excuses. It's blog time baby.

I'm going to lead off with a Patriots postl this one from barstoolsports.com. For those of you not familiar with it, it's the daily blog for the Barstool Sports mag you see sprinkled around the streets of Boston. I really couldn't care much for the mag itself (it's a local version of Maxim, without the talented writers or any sort of design), but the blog is a freakin' hoot.

This posting is about one of my favorite factoids of the season: that (hypothetically speaking) the Patriots could run the table AND STILL wind up with a Top 3 pick in the draft. Thanks San Fran! That's the biggest con job since the 86 Celtics landed the Number 2 pick in that years' draft.

Although, I guess, that situation didn't exactly work out very well.

Anyway, unless 1987's Bo Jackson is making himself draft eligible this year, I don't think the Pats keep the pick: I think they spin it off for a grab bag of picks down the line.