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Poor Liverpool

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December 15, 2009
Poor Liverpool

No, really. Liverpool is poor. Because? A couple of weaselly American financiers (businessmen being too generous a term) bought the team in a heavilly leveraged buyout in 2007 and saddled the team with debt. When Tom Hicks and George Gillett arrived, they portrayed themselves as the friendly and benevolent Americans, smiling humans compared with...
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ETYTYK About the Newspaper Industry is Wrong II

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September 28, 2009
ETYTYK About the Newspaper Industry is Wrong II

Infoporn on the death of news on paper. Via Mint.com Check out the revenue sources in the bottom right. The key question becomes how do you design a business where the current 7% of revenues that comes from online sources becomes 80% of revenues? Clearly that amount needs to grow through higher ad rates,...
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Movin’ On Up!

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September 25, 2009

I’m very proud to announce that I have been asked to be a politics blogger for the Des Moines Register. They are starting a new political blogging system with prominent Iowa bloggers from left, right and center. I’ll be posting 3-5 times a week over there. I’ll continue to post here but it will...
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Funny or Die

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September 22, 2009

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
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Standing By

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September 22, 2009

Been busy at work. A couple of major blog announcements coming up though.
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Dan Snyder Has Ruined The Redskins Forever

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September 3, 2009

Warning. Locker-room language For all of you who thought that I was just a limp-wristed soccer fan, think again. This football post is about pigskin. Sure, I have my problems with American Football (a.k.a. rugby for pussies). The games are way to freakin’ long for one thing. I don’t have 3.5 hours to sit...
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Clinton Herald Forums Done

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September 1, 2009

I thought it was odd last night about 5 p.m. when I could no longer see the forums on the front page of the Herald Website in Google Chrome, which I’ve been happily using as my primary web browser. But they were still visible and readable in with Firefox and Internet Explorer. This morning,...
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Playing Mr. Mom

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August 23, 2009

Laura is in Nashville tending to her parents’ long term care needs. Meeting up with my step-Dad in Waterloo and going to Lost Island Waterpark in Waterloo.
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Mental Health Break

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August 14, 2009

Taking a four-day weekend to recharge the batteries and catch up on past-due writing assignments. Movies too. Going to go see District 9 tonight with grown-ups. Taking the kids to see Ponyo. Miyazaki WIN!
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Take these and shut up.

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July 19, 2009
Take these and shut up.

Busy as all hell. Not abandoning the blog again. Had a very pleasant and restful Sunday. The first in a few weeks. Took a couple hours to go out on the Mississippi with Turbo and take some pictures. Feel free to share. All images are Creative Commons Licensed Attribution, No Derivitives. All photos: This...
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