Saturday, May 19, 2007   Doing a bit of research for grad
school, I read the profile of an alum of one of the programs I'm
looking at. It turns out he went to Carleton, like me, and was a
Political Science major, also like me. Unlike me, he graduated
Summa Cum Laude (my grades are good, but nowhere near summa
territory). And then he went and got his law degree from a
top-10 law school, along with a Ph.D from the same school in a
program that looked very exciting.  He's now teaching political
science at a community college.  This is not heartening news.
Friday, May 18, 2007  Boxing Blogging Part II  Boring card
tonight out in Oklahoma. It's unfortuate that I don't get HBO
here, because tomorrow's fight between Edison Miranda (28-1, 24
KOs) and Kelly Pavlik (30-0, 27 KOs) should be spectacular. I'm
a huge Miranda fan, but both of them are spectacular punchers. I
got my first taste of Miranda in his one round demolition of
Willie Gibbs, who was supposed to be a real contender in the
division. He followed that u