by scribe | Sep 3, 2008 | off-topic
I normally avoid politics in my blog, but this is just too funny. I hope you won’t mind the off-topic post. If you do mind, blame it on Elizabeth Vicary. She started it. So I was watching the Republican convention tonight because, like many other Americans, I...
by scribe | Jan 9, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games
Last weekend I watched the latest debate between the Democratic presidential candidates — Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson. I deliberately avoided paying attention to politics during 2007, but now 2008 is here, the year of the...
by scribe | Nov 20, 2007 | people, tournaments
Matt posted an interesting comment on my post “The best of frienemies,” where he says that he has never actually hated an opponent. I totally agree. Maybe I’ve lived a charmed life, but I don’t think I have ever actually hated anyone, over a...