Trouser Fail
I don’t normally chit chat about fashion here at Porch Dog, but as a life-long, die-hard purchaser and wearer of non-name brand, non logoed gear (with the exception of a profusion of liquor-based T-shirts acquired for free from various events) I am fully behind SB7 here and, more than that, nominate the following as money graf of the week: Just like jokes, clothes should not need to be explained to people. If you need to say that the design for your trousers are 105 years old and they’re made on a pre-WWII loom in order for them to impress people then your trousers fail.

I Cannot Wait for the Blockbuster Hit of the Holiday (I mean Christmas) Season
Say what you want about the Tea Party movement, and I’ve said my share, but make no mistake about it, they are very, self-righteous. I firmly support anybody’s right to assemble and shout their grievances. I insist that dissent is a patriotic activity. I even say that the Tea Partiers, as wrong as they are, as hypocritical as they often are, as racist as they often appear to be, are still acting within a centuries-old democratic tradition. The mere exercise of assemblage reinforces the fundamental right to protest and engage one another–and the powers that be–in an open and public debate. The difference between the implication of this video and what

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]