Beer Friday: No Commentary Here!
I’ll let  you determine why I think this post belongs on the website of a midwestern blogger on “Beer Friday.”

One more word on Colts/Pats
Bill Simmons (a.k.a. ESPN’s The Sports Guy) has the embittered fan’s take here.  More importantly, he devotes a lot of his space to situational understanding, something I feel is lacking from most of the statistical stuff I’ve read about that 4th down decision.  I’ve read a metric ton of words about that decision, and I’m still not totally sure how I feel about it – but maybe it can be summed up like this: there’s a very low chance that punting was a bad decision (i.e. it was “safe”) whereas there’s a decent chance that going for it was a bad

Treasure!
I blogged last week on what I think may be some missed treasure  hunting possibilities out in that 2XL Texas-sized floating landfill but this…this is treasure hunting I can really get behind. [via Jacob Grier]

Sexist?
Is the cover above of Sarah Palin sexist? I’m not even sure where to begin. On the one hand, this picture doesn’t seem to be particularly exploitative. I mean, she was on the cover of Runners World, presumably because she likes running. And I guess, it’s possible that Palin could run (and be photographed) in sweats. But cotton

As long as we’re still talking about the Colts vs Pats game
Matt Yglesias, as he tends to do, lays down some common sense-style support for Bill Belichick. Summation: If you can avoid it, don’t give the Colt’s the ball because they have a good offense. OK, sure. There’s no way I would fight that logic as a piece of generally good advice. However, on Sunday night the Colts were still suffering some pretty important offensive losses, including a faulty Joseph Addai. And…as good as that logic is generally, it certainly wasn’t the case on Sunday that the Colts were scoring at will. The fact is that with 2 mi