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• Clearing the Browser Tabs — Winter Classic Saturday Edition
• Welcome to 2011, Everyone!
• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Auld Lang Syne Friday Edition

Clearing the Browser Tabs — Winter Classic Saturday Edition Posted: 01 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST If you follow me on Twitter or listen to The Delivery, you know I’m a hockey fan. One of the events I’ve come to enjoy during the season is the the NHL Winter Classic, where two teams meet outdoors in the cold surrounded by tens of thousands of hockey-heads. This year’s game (hyped very well by HBO’s “24/7 Penguins/Capitals” miniseries) is between My Beloved Washington Capitals and the hated rival Pittsburgh Penguins. The teams (and the teams fans) hold no great love for each other and nearly every meeting between the two teams produces moments like this from their first game about a week ago. Because of the weather, the league has moved the game to 8 PM, which puts it right in the middle of prime time, where it will compete against a bunch of useless college football bowl games. Seriously, watch the game. I’m betting, if you like sports even a little, you’ll enjoy what you see. To whet your interest, here are ten reasons to love the Winter Classic. And now, links! In 2010, President Obama gave 481 speeches, statements, and remarks; spent more than a month on vacation (the most recent of which cost us well over a cool million), and played 29 rounds of golf (58 total in two years). He needs to do less of all these things. The hits in New York City just keep on coming. A 3-month old baby is brain dead because emergency personnel could not get him to the hospital in time. They got stuck 30 yards from the emergency room on an unplowed road because hospitals weren’t high on the city’s priority list. Plow crews did manage to take care of the street in front of Sanitation Commission John Doherty’s house and there is a report that city workers purposefully plowed some neighborhoods but not others to put pressure on the Mayor’s office in the ongoing struggle over their lavish pay and benefits. Here’s some follow-up on the story of the NJ teen suspended because she accidentally grabbed her Dad’s lunch which contained a paring knife. The school board held a meeting, went into a private huddle, and came out with a milquetoast statement and a veiled threat against the girl and her family. Again, we can not get vouchers quickly enough. When you get down to it, progressives have exactly one political tactic: pitch a hissy fit. One reason I’ll side with GOProud against most anyone is this full-throated and fearless defense of conservative values. If you’re a conservative and can’t get behind that, there’s something very wrong with you. ABC made a real mistake when it replaced Jake Tapper as the host of “This Week” with Christiana Amanpour. If you don’t believe me, check out Ed Driscoll’s post, which highlights her ten goofiest moments of the year.

Welcome to 2011, Everyone! Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:01 PM PST Happy New Year to You and Yours from the Staff and Crew of The Sundries Shack and The Delivery Podcast! (and thanks to Shorpy for the photograph)

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Auld Lang Syne Friday Edition Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:10 AM PST One of my favorite songs is “Auld Lang Syne”, and the work on which it is based also happens to be one of my favorite poems. So far as I know, I’ve no Scottish blood in me, but when I read Burns, I wish I did. I’d be a bad blogger if I didn’t give you a video to watch as well. There are plenty of versions of “Auld Lang Syne” available, but this one, I think, is my favorite. It was taped on the occasion of the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 2004 and I get goosebumps every time I watch it. This, also, is worthy of goosebumps. Here’s to a good 2010 and an even better 2011. And there's a hand, my trusty fiere ! And gie’s a hand o' thine ! And we'll tak a right gude-willy waught, For auld lang syne. And now, links. If you’re looking for a winner of the Most Insipid Newspaper Column of 2010, Colman McCarthy won it today with this late entry about the ROTC and why our soldiers are simply as awesome as the Taliban. His drivel received appropriately brutal smackdowns from Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stephen Green. Magazines are not doing well on the iPad. Maybe the problem isn’t the concept of a digital magazine itself, but that magazine publishers still don’t get that people really don’t want the same thing they can get on a newsstand, in digital format. Television advertisers seem to have gotten the “adapt or die” message, however. What do you do when your state is mired in a multi-year recession? Why you raise taxes on everyone and jack up the minimum wage, of course! I’m beginning to think that progressivism is nothing more than a mild learning disorder. Here’s a beautiful shot of the International Space Station transiting the full moon. Great work, and reflexes, by the photographer.

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