TMQ watch: November 23, 2010.

Ah, Thanksgiving approaches. And what are we thankful for this week? TMQ cheerleader photos, perhaps?

Let’s go to the video, Warner.

The TMQ obsession with undrafted, low-drafted, and small college players continues.

In 2008, Favre single-handedly blew up the New York Jets, leading to a fired head coach and bitter recriminations all around. In 2010, Favre has blown up the Vikings, with a fired head coach and bitter recriminations all around. This must be some inexplicable coincidence — it can’t have anything to do with Brett Favre.

WCD calls out this quote simply because it sounds awfully familiar.

Something about the Ivy League and the NFL. WCD isn’t exactly sure what Easterbrook’s point was.

And, lo, the Football Gods wax wrothful against the Bengals, Chargers, and Giants.

You know, Donya’s just kind of a generic looking attractive blonde. WCD hopes there’s more to her than just good looks. However, that Titans cheerleader can eat crackers in our bed anytime.

“Sweet Patriots Plays of the Week”. Other sweet and sour plays: Cleveland – Jacksonville, Washington – Tennessee (the Babin foul), Tampa – SF, Houston – Jets.

TMQ devotes a good bit of space to discussion of the Eagles plans for adding generating capacity to their stadium.

As on-site generators improve in quality and decline in cost, gigantic, centralized power plants are likely to become less common, supplanted by large number of small power facilities, at least some of which may be little nuclear power plants that are prefab units. Eventually, individual homes and offices may kiss the power grid goodbye, making their own electricity through a combination of green tech, water-heater-sized fossil-powered generators or fuel cells driven by hydrogen.

WCD couldn’t have put it better ourselves. Decentralized electricity production we believe will not only save energy through reducing transmission losses, but will also provide redundancy and better disaster recovery. We expect this to be a growth field in the next 50 years, and are fascinated by the shift this will represent in our national electrical infrastructure.

Lyman-Alpha blobs. Chicken-<salad> field goal: Seattle – New Orleans. Wacky drink of the week: Absolut Berri Acai, “an enticing combination of acai, blueberry and pomegranate”. Who comes up with this crud?

Rotate the Thanksgiving Day games, rather than letting the Lions play every year. But Gregg! Watching the Lions lose is an important part of many family Thanksgiving traditions! You might as well propose replacing turkey on Thanksgiving with spaghetti carbonara!

More creep, but WCD is amused by the Volt discussion. You get a pass this week, Easterbrook.

“The real scandal in Tennessee men’s basketball is that a pathetic 40 percent of the players graduate.”

Our great and good friend Earl will be glad to know that TMQ supports higher taxes on “the rich”, along with noted economists such as Moby and Bill Gates. However, TMQ asks, if these luminaries support higher taxes on the rich, why don’t they voluntarily calculate what they should owe under their own proposals, and then send a check to the Treasury? WCD wonders: how did the Obama family end up with an income of $5,505,409 in 2009? Were royalties from Dreams from My Father that good?

“Adventures in Officiating”: Bengals – Bills.

Thank God “Friday Night Lights” is almost over, and WCD will never have to hear about this series ever again.

More chicken-<salad> kicks: Arizona – Kansas City.

WCD is delighted to see a shoutout to Ted Frank and the Center for Class Action Fairness in TMQ. We have long admired Mr. Frank’s work as part of the Overlawyered crew, and before that, on alt.folklore.urban; we wish the Center for Class Action Fairness much success.

Disclaimer of the week: the Flexi retractable leash, which makes walking your dog an adventure!

Alfred 60, State University of New York-Maritime 0. One guy shut out an entire university? Saint Cloud State 42, Hillsdale 28.

Followup to last week’s item on “Chainsaw Dan” Snyder and the McNabb deal.

Reader comments: the BCS template is working its way down to high school level, escort backlash, the Dez Dilemma, and “obscurity is a matter of perspective”.

Tune in next week, and until then, keep drinking those blueberry-almond martinis.

2 Responses to “TMQ watch: November 23, 2010.”

  1. I’m pretty sure I don’t want to use a dog leash whose instructions include “reduce the risk of amputations.”