The Victors
I wasn't able to see either game, the victory over the feisty Fighting Illini due to a History Club trip to the Henry Ford Museum—the scheduling of which for a Saturday in the fall I argued against vigorously & viciously—& the victory over the unwelcome Cornhuskers due to a debate tournament in the Canadas (to be chronicled in a forthcoming "Master Debating" post). I saw a bit of the third quarter of the Nebraska game on a laptop in a lecture hall on the campus of Wilfrid Laurier University, at which point the score was valiant Wolverines 17-10 unwelcome Cornhuskers, though by text message my father informed me that the game wasn't as close as that score indicated; the final score would seem to vindicate his analysis. I had two spirited discussions about Shoelace, one with the Regis coach who is critical of young Mr. Robinson's throwing ability, or lack thereof, & the other with an Alaska debater—from a family of Wolverines—who loves "D-Rob's" unconventional play-making ability. Good times. Not as good as being able to watch the games & thus comment intelligently upon them, but good nonetheless.

Saturday, 19 November
(№ 20) Michigan 45-17 Nebraska (№ 17)
9-2, Big Ten 5-2

Saturday, 12 November
(№ 22) Michigan 31-14 Illinois
8-2, Big Ten 4-2

Next up: The Game, the annual war against the hated Buckeyes. There is no love lost between the states of Michigan & Ohio, nor 'twixt the University of Michigan & THE _{(Ohio State University)}. Go Blue! Beat Ohio!

Go Blue!

Obamboozled | All the Russias | Atlanticism
Cast your mind back to the early days of the Obama Administration, when President Obama & Secretary Clinton talked up a "reset" in Russo-American relations. If only the United States turned her back on ballistic missile defense & left our stalwart Czech & Polish allies, who had angered Russia by agreeing to host radar sites for the under-construction American missile defense umbrella, twisting in the wing, then the Russians would be our friends again & everything would be loveliness & roses. The White House kowtowed to Moscow's demands & scaled back our missile defense plans to the point of uselessness, so now the Russians are threatening to put offensive missiles in East Prussia (the spoils of war that they call Kaliningrad) unless we cancel the feeble efforts still underway: Kremlinology-link. President Obama's reset is awesome! The best part is that our response has come from neither the Department of State nor the National Security Council, but from N.A.T.O. Leading from behind: it's like a dream come true.

This steady retreat in the face of Russian truculence/belligerence is precisely what you voted for in '08, if you voted for Obama-Biden: Wayback Machine (scroll down to "Obamboozled" for more examples of the success of the "reset" policy). The parade of horrors continues unabated!

Coming Attractions
{a} The intersection of "The Explorers Club" & Operation AXIOM, a post on which I spent a good deal of time this afternoon, a mammoth job that I am spreading over several days; due Sunday.
{b} "Master Debating": The Air Force Academy at the end of September/beginning of October & Wilfrid Laurier (in the Canadas) last weekend.
{c} "Project PANDORA": OkCupid?

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Mark Ronson featuring The Daptone Horns, "God Put a Smile On Your Face" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)