Please Please Please Let This Happen

NY Times had a story about Christian Conservatives possibly making a third party effort if a pro-choicer like Guliani is nominated. A third party filling its ranks almost exclusively with disenchanted conservative Republicans? Dems win with 60% if this happens. Go James Dobson!

Dart League Week 2 vs Old Capitol Brew Works

Score after round 1:
OCBW 12, Club Car 4

Score after round 2:
OCBW 21, Club Car 13

Score after round 3:
OCBW 30, Club Car 13


Last night we went up against an Old Capital Brew Works team that won its first match 43-0. We all got off to a pretty slow start but were able to put ourselves in a position to win after the second round. Unfortunately, as the scoreboard indicates, we came up short.

One of these days it's all going to come together.

My highlight of the evening: an 8 mark to begin my final match (triple 20, triple 19, double 18). Unfortunately, this was followed by an inability to score on 19's that probably led to our downfall.

Next week we hit the road again for a game at the local speakeasy on Hwy 1 for what will hopefully be our first victory of the year.

Darts League Week 1 vs Martinis

Score after round 1:
Martinis 8 Club Car 8

Score after round 2:
Martinis 17 Club Car 17

Score after round 3:
Martinis 26 Club Car 17

I think there are a lot of positives that we can take out of week 1. Martinis is consistently one of the best 3 teams in the league, whereas we finished around 14th last fall. We went on the road (the matches were at Martinis) and proved we can hang with those guys for pretty much the entire match. In fact, if a few darts would have landed a couple centimeters to the right or left in those last two games, we could have come out of there with a victory. Even without the win, that kind of effort probably raised some eyebrows around the league.

Special props to Ryan Murray, who, with his steady dentist's hand, had an exceptionally successful debut performance. His three consecutive bulls-eyes to win a crucial team game were especially impressive.

Our captain Brad claimed that "we found a lot more answers than questions tonight."

I agree. This team has got nothing but upside. Iowa City Fall Darts League Beware.

Second Cyclone in 2 Years Brings Iowa City to Its Knees

Technically, the cyclone this time was in Ames, but the destruction it wreaked will definitely be in Iowa City. Tears of shame and disappointment will flood the streets and the whole place will look like a scene out of "The Day After Tomorrow."

Kent State scored 23 points on this team 2 weeks ago. We scored 13. Maybe we should put our defense on offense for a couple series just to see how they would do. It couldn't hurt. You'd better be enjoying your hatworld hats Dominique Douglas. My new hat is a bag that I will wear on my head when I talk to my Iowa State friends.

There is a silver lining though. Remember 2001 when we lost to the Cyclones and then didn't lose another game in the Big Ten that year? Yeah. I remember that too. . .

That's not going to happen this year.

Scottish Invasion

The above is Glaswegian band the 1990's video for "You're supposed to be my friend."

Why is it posted?

Well, if you're reading this blog, you probably know me. If you know me, there's a pretty good chance you know my friend Stuart in Glasgow. Stuart just finished doing the album cover for a limited 7" single for the 1990's. If you're interested in seeing it, or anything else he's been working on, it can be found by clicking on Stu's Illustrations on the blogroll of this blog.

Enjoy!

Click here for the review of their new album Cookies that I came across in last month's Rolling Stone.

That's Why They Call it Sperm Donation. . .Not Organ Donation

Judge Martha Beckelman clears up a semantic issue for the courts in Iowa and a fiance is allowed to begin her family.

Vote Obama for . . . Supreme Court?

Jeff Toobin makes an interesting prediction about the man who will be the next president of the United States. Assuming, of course, that he is not the man who will be the next president of the United States.