Hour 2: The Future of the MN GOP: Guest: Dave Thompson, candidate for State Party Chair.
(Note: David interviewed Tony [...]
Rocky has been the mascot of ourhouseblog for as long as it has existed.
In the spirit of the age Rocky has decided to get all hopey and changey, and I thought I would share with the world his enthusiasm for the new [...]
2008 has few rivals for worst year of my life. 1992-3 sucked pretty badly as well.
What do these years have in common? I blogged little if at all.
Therefore, I assume, if I blog more I will surely have a better year, right? (Don’t give me any BS [...]



This game was an object lesson in what happens when a team with an irregular offense and good defense and a team with no offense and an OK defense get together. Michigan's flashes of brilliance were enough to get them through this one. Minnesota was dominated' [...] 




Michigan announced yesterday that they have dumped the Nike Swoosh for the Adidas mountain and they have redesigned the jerseys. The away shirts are cool looking with a yellow racetrack on both sides. The home are a little more pedestrian--a variation on the usual maize on [...]
Took some pics in the garden and decided to try out the film clip feature on the camera with Rocky. It's a little jerky but it's a first attempt!
I attatched an mp3 clip of some brazilian jazz because Caiques of his sort come from Brazil [...]






Chavez and Uribe shook hands over the weekend, after an initial report that there was some kind of skirmish at the border. The current spin is that Uribe won this round and it's hard to see how Chavez got anything out of it since [...]
In Venezuela, one can see the misiones everywhere: in government posters lining the streets of Caracas, in the ubiquitous red shirts issued to program participants and worn by government supporters at Chávez rallies, in the bloated government budget allocations. The only place where one will be hard-pressed to find them [...]

I haven't written anything in ages, but I thought the occasion of the Iowa caucuses would be a great opportunity to start again.
First of all, congrats to Obama and Huckabee. I just watched Obama's victory speech, and I have to say that I understand his appeal. He said all [...]
I have some friends who are fans of Mike Huckabee, but I have never quite understood the attraction. Nevertheless, he is surging in Iowa and closing in on Romney fast.
One of the reasons I have never been attracted to him is that he is far from being a fiscal [...]
...since I have posted here at Ourhouseblog.com.
I wish I had a great excuse, but the simple fact is that a combination of work (getting the Minnesota Free Market Institute up to speed), health issues (the broken ankle etc.), and just plain laziness has kept me from posting.
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Michigan put up a good fight. The importance of the game showed in that both Hart and Henne played most of the game. Backup QB Mallett was out there just long enough to show that he isn't yet ready for [...]
The Michigan-Wisconsin game? Oh we lost. 21-37. The key factor IMHO was the lack of Chad Henne who played for like two possessions. With a bum knee and a bum elbow and now maybe a bum shoulder, we'll be lucky to see him at all [...]
This was a real nail biter. Michigan was behind most of the game with stars Chad Henne and Michael Hart both playing hurt. But once again, the depth of Michigan's bench, at least in the receiving department showed through as Mario Manningham caught a few [...] 


Michigan 14 Penn State 9. Someone lit a fire under the Michigan defense this week and they held the line against Penn State forcing lots of errors, fumbles and holding their offense to only [...]
You've given Michigan QB Ryan Mallet the shot of the confidence he needed after last week's fiasco. And looks like we'll be seeing more of him since the "lower leg" injury Chad Henne suffered in the Oregon game is now referred to as a knee injury. [...] 
Many of you are quite well aware that I broke my ankle while trying to fix something in the garage.
That something, you may or may not know, was getting security cameras up and installed around the garage.
I had originally envisioned a system using a [...]