Wild sci-fi ranting is far preferable to the standard nprish middle of the road.

Then again I might be way too easily entertained by predictions.

I completely agree with you that CBS's coverage is a beautiful thing. But you've left out the best part about it, and maybe missed the point altogether when you declared it to be so juicily throwback. The great thing they do, the thing that is actually completely innovative is: cut to another game when the current one gets boring. Huzzah!

Calling Katharine Mieszkowski "the author who predicted Katrina" as if that conveys any sort of authority is absurd. Millions predicted Katrina - including every resident of nola. It was well known that if it suffered a direct hit from a powerful hurricane the city would flood. As anyone who's ever spent any time there knows, this possibility was brought up with near compulsive regularity by any local expounding on the city to a visitor. And then you have all the journalists who were freaking out about the city flooding as katrina approached and all those engineering studies...

The whole interview reads like a discussion with a news junkie rather than any sort of expert. If I had taken notes on all the related articles I've read since katrina I'm pretty sure I could give you the same information without the ridiculous alarmist language - geographical time bombs etc - blah.

Uh, Mike Tidwell, rather. Apologies to Katharine Mieszkowski.

really? not saturated in n cali yet? it all started in boulder - i was there a couple years ago and everyone was wearing these gross bright plastic clogs. stores that didn't sell shoes had 10 colors of them in the window. i remember thinking that i was glad i lived in nyc where, due to superior fashion sensibilities, they could never catch on. i was pretty sure california was doomed though.

king

i don't begrudge you your schadenfreude, especially considering the force fed red sox media mania of the last few years - it's just that the yankees jr comments are way, uh, off base.

show a little appreciation for the most knowledgeable fan base in america by not comparing them to those glory-whore douches to the south. red sox fans actually follow and enjoy baseball, even when it doesn't involve counting trophies. recognizing this distinction would be entirely in keeping with the usually nuanced, iconoclastic tenor of your column.

and oh yeah - fu too bitch.