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Advice for coaches

Sometimes it's better to stay quiet. Last night's football game between the Packers and Seahawks ended with Seattle winning do to a final second end zone play. Problem was, and why it seems the entire country is up in arms today, is that the replacement refs totally got the call wrong. I mean it was such a bad call and the refs even reviewed it. 

Anyway, Seattle's coach, Pete Carroll must not know when the better part of valor is to remain quiet. He went on Twitter after the game and said, "WOW!!! What a game! Loving our guys for battling all the way to the end and never giving up!"

Not good.

It's #emptychairday on Twitter

This hastag has been loads of fun seeing what people are coming up to celebrate Obama's empty chair. 

Dont blame Bush for the 'empty chair'.

But but journalists

Two tweets I found amusing and pretty true.

You know who really doesn't understand foreign policy?    Journalists

You know who really doesn't understand domestic policy?   Also Journalists.

I found a kindred spirit

I'm not musical like so many people I know are musical, people who love music of any kind. I endure and that's about it. So this tweet by Tim Siedell made me laugh out loud.

"If you can stand to listen to a barbershop quartet for more than two minutes, you are in a barbershop quartet."

Streaking across Busch Stadium

Just when we thought streakers were a thing of the past, along comes this guy.

Now before debating the merits of this sort of behavior, my first thought was, "Wow, finally, a physically fit streaker!" And what was the police officer pointing at him? A taser? A gun? A camera? And how would you like to be the Cardinal's employee who had to tackle him? Ick.  

Photo by Bill Greenblatt via Tweet by Michael Calhoun of KMOX.

Great photo by the way, nice composition

Tweeting some reality

Even if you don't 'tweet' on Twitter, you might get a lot out of following people and just reading tweets which is basically what I do. I tweet once in a while but read tweets a lot. 

One of the people I follow is @AG_Conservative a young attorney. Last night he compared liberal reaction to Paul Ryan's medicare plan to choice.

"Thinking about how brilliant Paul Ryan's medicare plan is because it forces liberals to admit they don't trust Americans to choose."

Followed up with:

"Now liberals basically have to take the position that they are for choice when it comes to abortion, but against it for medicare."

i before e is not as true as you think

From UberFacts a site which claims to give "The most unimportant things you'll ever need to know":

There are 923 words in the English language that break the "i before e" rule. Only 44 words actually follow that rule.

Follow UberFacts on Twitter for your daily dose of the unimportant.

Another tweet

"Leno: Obama says Christian faith is the driving force behind his economic policies. So instead of blaming Bush, it's now all Jesus' fault."

Favorite Local Tweet

Via Wash U: Students and faculty re-enter Olin Library after it was temporarily evacuated due to burnt popcorn.

Finding out things

A little while ago I wanted to find out how the U of Missouri Cross Country teams did in the NCAA Regionals today.  I went to the website of the host school, Northern Illinois...no results.

That site linked to the official Midwest Regional site....nothing.  I know they've finished and handed out the awards.  Come on already.  

Then I headed over to the University of Missouri Athletics page...nothing.  But at the bottom of the story on the "coming regionals" page was a link to the XC Twitter feed.

Ah ha.  After all the times Twitter has amazed me I don't know why I didn't go there first.  I learned that the women and the men's teams both finished 7th out of 30 teams.  Not good enough to qualify for the Nationals, but darn good.