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Monthly Archives: August 2009

One OTM highlight, 8/7: Not quite there.

I should apologize for yesterday, I suppose. I didn’t find time between leaving the Roller Derby Championship at 7 p.m. and falling asleep at 9 p.m. to pull out the recap. It’s cool, though, I heard “On the Media” on WKNO, our local NPR affiliate. I didn’t, however, really have time to listen to the [...]

Please pardon or dust. I mean sweat.

The Honky Tonk Stomp, Tennessee’s Roller Derby State Championship has taken up our entire weekend (and a chunk of the last week, too). We might not recap tonight, and this is why. Kerry skates in two of the exhibiton mini-bouts today – beanpoles vs. dumptrucks (already happened; beanpoles won, with Kerry’s help) and in new [...]

Cap’n Obvious says

…obviously it is. At least that’s all I can think now, based on this headline from “Planet Money,” found on the NPR.org homepage. The awesome Laura Conaway notes, in this “Planet Money” blog post, that “In its letter, Goldman acknowledges using high-frequency trading but writes that its systems don’t see ‘client order flow.’” I’m not [...]

OTM Highlights 7/31- All Kinds of Wrong

This week’s episode intro starts with the usual story highlights and ends with Bob saying “Stay tuned for all sorts of wrong stuff.” There’s potential for plenty of wrong – Brooke is off again this week, and Bob is using words like “fomenting”. The first story is about people that think that President Obama wasn’t [...]