Since everyone’s talking about last night’s awesome Super Bowl matchup between the Steelers and the Cardinals, I’ll just round a few things up at random and let you pick and choose:
*I knew a quick strike by the Cardinals’ offense would be crucial, so I thought what bad luck it was that they didn’t win the coin toss, allowing the Steelers’ offense to eat up a good chunk of the first quarter. Now I read that the Cardinals actually won the coin toss but Coach Ken Whisenhunt elected to kick. I can’t imagine such a decision given the nature of the Cardinals’ playoff run. The way I see it, placing more value on the second-half kickoff operates on the assumption that you’ll be trailing at halftime;
*As the Winston-Salem Journal ponders Big Tobacco’s dwindling political clout, Commander Hood proposes a smoking ban where it’ll really count — at the risk of giving the General Assembly another bad idea, that is;
*As we speak, Sen. Richard Burr is on his way to Gitmo. It will be interesting to hear what he has to say;
*In this NYT op-ed, Stanley Fish compares HBO’s polygamous family drama Big Love to ‘The Waltons.’ I haven’t seen the new season, but I watched the first two via NetFlix. It’s a great show, but I’ll tell you right now that, with his chain of home repair stores, his entangling alliances to get his video-gambling empire off the ground his fat SUV and his cell phone on his belt, Bill Henrickson ain’t no John Walton;
*Thinking a little more about yesterday’s N&R front-pager, the tone from museum officials seems to be the general public just doesn’t know what’s involved in this project, so we need to be patient. Commissioner Skip Alston says 2010’s the date, so if it comes and goes…….
*I’m a lttle slow, but I just now got around to the NYT profile showing White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel thumbing his nose during the inauguration. Classy. I generally stray from the ‘what-if-a-Republican-had-done-that’ argument, but can you imagine the media reaction if Karl Rove made such a display?
