Thursday, July 21, 2011

How Exactly is a Rainbow Made?

In order to clear up the name of the blog to any possible Philistines who happen to come across this corner of the internet, it's a reference to the great cinematic masterpiece of the 21st Century, Joe Dirt, and the scene in which the title character first meets Kicking Wing:

A little about me:
I was born in DC and raised in its Maryland suburbs, but recently moved to Boston.  I'm a somewhat recent college graduate.  And I haven't decided how personal I want this thing to get.  I see it mostly as a place to put down my crazy ideas in a more permanent fashion and if necessary I would be able to just send links to people instead of having to dig up some document on my computer or write something all over again.


The blog will likely cover sports as that is something I know a bit about, as well as economics and libertarian political theory.  It's possible some stuff on comedy, food, pop culture, film, and other things could find their way in here too; certainly wouldn't rule it out.  Things will not be kept short, the jokes will be taken too far.


Lots of dudes my age claim to be sports fans, and I'm sure they are, many of them probably know more about baseball or the NBA than I do, but as a general sports fan, I'm tough to beat.  And by general, I do not mean the main American sports, I mean all sports. Especially football in ALL of its codes.  But also golf, tennis (only for the slams), lacrosse, hockey, moto GP, biathlon, MMA, and boxing.  Sports were a much bigger part of my life back in my college and especially during my unemployed periods shortly after college, when I had access to all kinds of sports cable channels. My teams:  Redskins, Liverpool FC, Terps (football, bball, lax), Caps, Nats, Zards, Brisbane Broncos, Geelong Cats, and then there are too many individuals that I root for or against to list.  I would have to say that College Football is the closest thing I have to any religious beliefs at the moment, but I spend most of my sports time educating myself more about association football (not only do I follow LFC's 1st team very closely, but I watch their youth and reserve games regularly as well, plus I like to keep up with the latest goings on in the Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga, various youth international tournaments, Ligue 1*, Russian Premier League*,  Brasileirão*, Campeonato Paulista* Argentine Primera* (* indicating that I was only able to follow these leagues during the above mentioned period of unemployment and cable sports pack subscription)).




I also dabble in Austrian Economics, although I have dedicated a pretty serious amount of time to this subject, I still would feel like such a n00b if I said too much.  Posts in this arena will probably only criticize very basic arguments made by other laymen, regardless of wether or not I agree with their conclusions.  Although I feel that the average libertarian is probably more informed than the average dem or republican, most are still susceptible to internet pwnage from the right or the left if they aren't studied up.


Posts that are in the pipeline:
How to fix College Football
How to fix soccer in America
Appealing to 'non-libertarians' on libertarian grounds






It just does.