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Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing.
2008-06-07 16:35:00 Most Saturdays, I go into the office in the morning for a while. There's a couple of reasons I do that.It lets me get caught up on work that I didn't quite get to during the week -- which is to say, everything. Each week, I start out with a list of things I hope to accomplish. This past week, I finished the second item on the list. On Friday afternoon. At 4:30. I celebrated that accomplishment by leaving early, which lets you in on part of the reason why I never get very far on my list.Another reason is that it shows my boss that I'm hardworking. He comes in on Saturdays a lot, too, and when he sees me there, working hard, he's impressed (I hope) with my drive and gumption. It's worked so far; I've been there 8 years now. He never thinks to ask me how come I don't get all my work done during the week, or how come I celebrate getting 1/10 of my work done by going home early, and I'm hoping it won't occur to him.A final reason is that it gets me away from garbage cans that ha...
Sound and Fury
2008-04-29 08:21:00 McCain rejects 'big government' takeover of health care - CNN.com The solution, McCain said, "isn't a one-size-fits-all-big government takeover" but "with the American people themselves." "We have always trusted in ourselves to meet any challenge that required only our ingenuity and industry to surmount," the Arizona Republican said. "Any solution that robs us of that essential sense of ourselves is a cure far worse than the affliction it is meant to treat."After McCain delivered his speech, the Democratic National Committee criticized McCain for "promising four more years of the Bush health care agenda."I read through this article twice looking for some kind of substance. Down at the bottom the author admits that this speech was given the day before McCain plans to release details of his health plan. I'll admit that I'm eager to see what it might include.His goal seems to be to keep government control out of health care, but to somehow force the people making millions on he...
By: Markism Explored
Sound and Fury
2008-04-16 03:24:00 Heather was born deaf, just like her parents were. Now the question for the parents is, whether to give their deaf kid a cochlear implant or wait for the time she can make the choice herself.
Jena reporting - sound and fury signifying?what?
2008-02-07 21:40:00 Raquel Christie’s article in the latest American Journalism Review is a thorough analysis and critique of media coverage of the Jena 6 controversy which S&R has done its own thorough job of ranting about. Her conclusions, based on interviews with reporters and bloggers involved are relatively straightforward: 1) Local media slanted its coverage to make the Jena story as much about unfair reporting by the national media - thereby misleading casual observers of the Jena events that the story was about “more of the same” injustice in a stereotypically racist Southern small town. 2) National media pursued its usual “celebrity driven” line and only really went into the Jena story once national figures like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton associated themselves with it. 3) National media relied too much on using information provided to them by sources with agendas (including blogs such as this one). 4) Local media spent far too much time reporting about what...
Hokies take step forward
2008-01-18 05:55:00 Column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net The next game has nothing to do with this game. Those were the words of Virginia Tech’s Seth Greenberg following his team’s yo-yo, not-always-pretty, overtime win against Virginia Wednesday night. The next game for the Hokies is Georgia Tech. This game was Virginia. The previous game was Maryland. Three games and, so far, two wins ...
By: ACC Nation
Wake Forest moves forward
2007-10-17 17:50:00 Sound and Fury column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net Dino Gaudio has been put in an unbelievably difficult spot. Not only is he taking over a Wake Forest basketball team that finished next to last in the ACC this past season and last the year before, but he’s also taking over for one of his best friends, the last Skip ...
By: ACC Nation
Rematch
2007-10-10 14:00:00 Sound and Fury column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net Thursday night, when Florida State travels to play Wake Forest, FSU will be a top-25 team with a four-game winning streak. Wake Forest isn’t ranked and is lucky to have won its last two games, rallying to beat Maryland in overtime and holding off Duke to win by five after leading ...
By: ACC Nation
BC football on the rise
2007-10-03 14:00:00 Sound and Fury column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net Jeff Jagodzinski couldn’t go wrong. The team he left after last season, the Green Bay Packers, is one of only four unbeaten teams in the NFL. Heading into the October portion of the schedule, the team for which Jags left the Packers is also undefeated. And, this week, Boston College, at ...
By: ACC Nation
Another chance for redemption
2007-09-26 14:00:00 Sound and Fury column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net Much has been written about the ACC’s less-than-stellar play out of conference in the past few years. There was hope things would turn around this year, but so far that hasn’t been the case. The ACC is 19-10 overall in non-conference games this season, but only 1-5 against ranked non-conference ...
By: ACC Nation
The polls start too early
2007-09-19 14:30:00 Sound and Fury column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net It’s early, I understand, but Boston College looks like the class of the ACC at this moment. The undefeated Eagles - and all three wins came against ACC opponents, so no cupcakes to begin the season for BC - may have a tough time arguing that they could challenge USC, LSU ...
By: ACC Nation
Hurricanes downgraded
2007-09-12 15:00:00 Sound and Fury column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net Congratulations Randy Shannon. In two games you managed to accomplish something Larry Coker didn’t in six seasons - a 38-point loss (Coker came close in the Peach Bowl, but it wasn’t 38 points.) You can argue, if you want, that, among ACC teams, Virginia Tech had a worse week than Miami, ...
By: ACC Nation
Stop picking on the ACC
2007-09-05 16:00:00 Sound and Fury Column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net (See what Chris has to say on the subject) Critics have had fun pointing out the ACC’s lack of success against non-conference foes in recent years. In order to get back to national prominence, they reason, the ACC must win some of those non-conference games against worthy opponents. So, Georgia Tech goes out ...
By: ACC Nation
Over-rated! Over-rated! Over-rated!
2007-09-05 16:00:00 Sound and Fury column by Chris Graham accnationchris@comcast.net (See what Patrick had to say on the subject) I would say that it’s all over but the cryin’ - but we’re not done cryin’, not by a longshot. So OK, on paper the ACC didn’t look all that bad last weekend - going 5-3 against nonconference foes, including a convincing ...
By: ACC Nation
VT did the right thing
2007-08-29 14:28:00 Sound and Fury column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net (See what Chris Graham had to say on the subject.) Let’s give Virginia Tech a pat on the back. When Jim Weaver, the school’s athletics director, announced that the Blacksburg school would not remove Michael Vick’s name from the hall it adorns in the Merryman Center and it wouldn’t lower the No. 7 ...
By: ACC Nation
Drop him like a hot potato
2007-08-29 14:26:00 Sound and Fury column by Chris Graham accnationchris@comcast.net (See what Patrick Hite had to say on the subject.) If any football program can withstand the PR nightmare that is Michael Vick, it’s America’s Team. That said, I wouldn’t invite Michael Vick to walk the sidelines at any games this fall or anything - and honestly, I don’t think it ...
By: ACC Nation
Around ACC Nation
2007-07-17 15:09:00 Three Miami football players injured in car accident early Monday morning in Florida. Florida State legend Bobby Bowden to be inducted into College Football Hall of Fame this weekend. Expected Wake Forest starting middle linebacker ruled academically ineligible for ‘07. Former UVa. baseball star Ryan Zimmerman is best bunter in MLB.
By: ACC Nation
Will Virginia Tech-UVa. rivalry ever be the same?
2007-04-27 05:54:00 Column by Patrick Hite Ari Goldberg doesn’t remember the rivalry ever being particularly nasty. Still, eight years later, things have changed. Chatfield and Columbine high schools are separated by just four miles in Littleton, Colo. High schools that close will certainly be rivals. But that aspect of life, along with many others, changed following the deadly shootings that ...
By: ACC Nation
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