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Redskins’ famous bellwether game a referendum on the black quarterback, too

My morning news routine never varies. It goes: theonion.com, facebook.com, svherald.com, cnn.com, espn.com and finally, realclearpolitics.com. I save Real Clear Politics for the end because I invariably spend the most time there.

Mind over mind matter

One of the most fascinating and bizarrely conceived studies in recent history was conducted at Duke University around this time last year, but is only now gaining traction in the mainstream media.

The conclusion of the study was that Christians who identify themselves as “born again” suffer substantially greater atrophy of the hippocampus as compared to Protestants and Catholics who do not claim to have had a “born again” experience.

Direct to Net videos are picking up steam

Over the last several months, we’ve started to slowly see a change in the way smaller independant productions are released. It began with the comedy/horror flick Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, and then the sport comedy Goon.

Both of these movies were released on iTunes prior to a theatrical release.

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Who is this year's best QB?

The NFL draft is less than 24 hours away, and we already know two important things.

#1 Andrew Luck will be the first player and first QB selected in this year’s NFL Draft.

#2 Robert Griffon II, better known as RG3, will be the second player selected in both categories.

And there has already been a lot of debate about which of these two guys will be the best QB taken in this year’s draft. My argument?

Neither.

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The road to dystopia starts with reality TV

Few, if any films in history, have been as derivative, cliché and unoriginal as “The Hunger Games.”

But it’s because of these creative defects that its message resonates so powerfully.

Hare missing bunny shots in bid for re-election

If you’ve been watching March Madness, then you’ve surely seen the commercial for Exxon in which an Exxon engineer, who just happens to be black, praises his company for creating whole bunches of jobs in America thanks to projects like the Keystone Pipeline.

If you’re paying any attention at all, this has to strike your ears a little odd, considering President Obama put the kibosh — at least temporarily — on the Keystone project, which would funnel Canadian oil sands straight through the Midwest to the gulf coast.

Big investment, not big government, is needed in education

A recent city council budget retreat revealed more than just the expected division regarding whether or not to pipe Colorado River water to Sierra Vista.
While Col. Timothy Faulkner called the water issue the city and fort’s Achilles’ Heel at that meeting, he pointed to something else that may very well be the state’s Achilles’ Heel as it looks to foster an economic rebound. It also happens to be my other primary beat.

Epic failure awaits Manning in Denver

Pray tell, when was the last time a veteran quarterback, whose name was synonymous with the winning ways of one franchise, switched teams and found immediate success in his next home?

Answer: The late Steve McNair, who was traded from Tennessee to Baltimore in 2006 and led the Ravens to a 13-3 record. Of course, when the Ravens acquired McNair, they weren’t asking him to be the MVP winner he was in Nashville. They just wanted him to take care of the ball and not do anything stupid — a Trent Dilfer redux, if you will.

Skive the jobless back to work

What began as a plea to get Sierra Vistans out of the office for something a little festive, traditional, and yet a wee bit naughty, has since become my own, personal state of the union address of sorts.

In 2006, paraphrasing the Sioux quote made famous in the star-studded 1986 classic “Flatliners”, I wrote, “Today is a great day to skive!” in hopes I might find fellow shirkers of officely duties. But alas, and not at all to my surprise, watering holes about town were as empty as you’d expect on a Thursday afternoon.