new fab five (-teen)

To mark the occasion of our 5-year anniversary, we're changing the blog roll.  Slightly.  Gone is FDL.  In flux is Nate Silver's 538, until he launches at ESPN (no new content via the temporary link anyway).  Adding Salon and Mother Jones, because, it's not quite the 7-year itch, so why not? 
Read up.

Some kinda record

1st of all, great post by the Nobel prize-winner. 
2nd, I guess he has to say that last line, 'reasonable' may not exist?  Truth is, it does not exist. But hey, point taken, and better now than later. 
Which has me wondering, how do we keep from repeating headers with each new entry, without having to resort to scrolling the entire list of archives?  Also, is J even aware we're coming up on the 5-year anniversary of this little venture?  5 years, and no growth in traffic, no discovery, no star-bursts.  That has to be some kinda record.

Swing and a miss 2

Lest we be judged (and by 'we', we really mean 'they'): Nobel prize-winner says it's beyond hypocrisy !  That's not the name of our new website or anything, we just wanted to give it a quick mention.  We could have used a poster of Ryan Braun instead, who knows?

Which one?

What sounds better to describe this week's SCOTUS brand of Highpocrisy?  Two of the most far-reaching and meaningful decisions in our history, certainly in our lifetime: the DOMA and VRA cases, each cutting in opposite directions.  Have we been Scalia'd?  Scotusized?  Can we add a new term to the glossay below, and if so, should we go with either of those or do you have another suggestion?  It's still early, so let us know.

Swing and a miss

Hey since we're in the middle of the amateur baseball draft, how's about a nice wholesome slice of HIGHpocrisy, going down as easy as apple pie and our national past-time.

Man-crush

Not sure what else to call it.  Yes, the writing and style are phenomenal, but look at the core of that post: the greatest, most obvious example of HIGHpocrisy this country has ever known, maybe ever.  If we can't get KO to join us in what we still refer to as a 'silly little venture', then maybe the estimable Mr. Pierce can do so?  "You think big, you be big, my friend".

For F**k's Sake

Sometimes, far more frequently these days than we care to remember, a four-letter word is the only word that comes to mind when trying to process days like yesterday. 
Four months have passed since our 'year-ending' last entry on the god-awful tragedy in Newtown.  Time does not heal all wounds.  Now we have fresh, new ones.  So just as we inched closer to getting back into standard HIGHpocrisy fare, like dealing with the President's latest middle finger to the people and party that re-elected him, some insane A-hole (or plural, a-holes) decides to ruin a perfectly boring marathon and plunge us back into the 'pit of despair'. 
In the process, s/he or they -- let's go with 'they' for now, it writes better -- also messed with the wrong icon, like they care.  It was not just Patriots Day in Boston, but the anniversary of when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.  All major leaguers wear his number '42' on Jackie Robinson day.  Jackie is one of my personal idols, though he played before my time.  His initials 'JR' are 1 of the reasons I post as J Rollah; a picture of him adorns my faux Facebook page as my profile.  He represents to me all that is good about human nature, and yesterday's perps represent all that is bad.
Maybe someday, if the grief and anger subside, we can get back to our silly little venture here, infinitesimally small compared to the stuff we should be writing about.  We can honor Jackie properly then.  We can strive to live up to the ideals for which we think he stood.  But not this day.  In public, back in his time, Jackie may have taken the high road in the face of such vitriol, but to whoever did this in Boston, all I can say at this moment is, "F**k you!"  For tearing up lives & families, for forcing average citizens to become something they didn't want or ask to become, even for not letting us enjoy a single day, "F**k you!" 
No, I don't feel better yet, it doesn't go away.  Here's to praying that the four-letter word doesn't rear its ugly head so much in the future.  Here's to hoping for that better tomorrow.  Yes, to answer Craig Ferguson's question from last night, I am sick of this sh**!