grain of salt

Mike Florio of Profootballtalk.com is a horrible, horrible NFL analyst/predictor; he's a true embarrassment to the profession (the linked story was 100% false).

Brendan Loy tends to take political punditry from campaign managers who lose 49 states with a grain of salt.

The Sunlight Foundation defends its calculation of Senator Bob Corker’s net worth:

By Alan M. Dershowitz

Josh Marshall on the early Pennsylvania exit polling out there:

I just finished reading Stefanie Wilder-Taylor’s wickedly hilarious new book, Naptime is the New Happy Hour: And Other Ways Toddlers Turn Yourself Upside Down, as part of a blog book review tour sponsored by Moth

The Tar Heels rolled over poor Mount Saint Mary’s. I didn’t get to see the game because oba-chan likes to shop, plus, the local stations were showing Vanderbilt getting pummeled by Siena. How embarrassing. I wont rub it in too much.

Bill Hobbs wonders whether those partisan Democrats will have the same reaction to the John McCain lobbyist scandal as they did to the Rob Briley affair:

When I drive by the humongo homes in Brentwood and other areas, I sometimes wonder where I’ve gone wrong in my life.  Although my husband and I have worked for years and years, we still stress when it comes to paying bills.  I’ve asked the question before: what do these people do for a living to afford these homes?  I’ve often heard from lenders that the people have no back-up plans and one missed paycheck or illness will do them in… just like other everyday f