I also wanted to make a fresh break from this particular blog and URL.  I just felt like there was too much baggage and debris here and I need a fresh start somewhere else.

So I have created a new blog which you can find here.  I hope to blog there more regularly than I have here.  Most likely on the normal subjects: sports, culture, family, etc.

I plan to leave everything her for archival sake.  Ahh, the memories . . .

So click on over the new place and check it out.  Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

• Tiger Woods has won the last three times an event was played at Doral Resort and Spa (Doral-Ryder Open, 2005-06; World Golf Championship event, 2007).

• He has won the last three WGC-CA Championships (known as American Express Championship before 2007) and six overall, tied for his most wins at any event.

• He has won the last six WGC stroke-play events (3 NEC/Bridgestone, 3 American Express/CA Championships).

• He has won 15 of 26 WGC events he has entered (there have been 27), totaling close to $20 million in earnings. Only one other player has more than one win at these events.

• He has won five straight PGA Tour events, the fifth-longest streak in PGA Tour history (he has two of the other four longest streaks as well).

• He has won the last seven tournaments he has entered worldwide, including all four in 2008.

• He has 64 career PGA Tour wins, tying him with Ben Hogan for 3rd all-time.

 

He is currenly one shot off the lead heading into the weekend, want to bet against him?

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Everything'll be alright (will's lullaby)

way down in new york town
thinkin bout the way she loved me
there's a hole in my pocket that's about her size
but i think everything is gonna be alright
yes i hope everything is gonna be alright
a smiling face is trade in l.a.
the gifts are found at the bar
well i wish my car
could drive to her tonight
then i'd know everything is gonna be alright
yes then i'd know it'll be alright

the rain in new orleans
forgot to end
but the mouths of the people are dry
and we watch and wait
and do nothing but sigh
and hope everything is gonna turn out right
but i don't know if it'll be alright

but i look at you
warm in your dream
while your mobile dances above
and i think to myself
it's a beautiful night
and i know everything is gonna be alright
yes now i know it'll be alright

It is one of those headlines or emails that comes across your screen and feels like a punch in the gut.  I was aware that his health was failing but you just don't think about losing someone like this until it happens.  And then it hits you that the world is somehow different.  It feels like the end of an era.

WFB, as he was often known, changed the face of American conservatism and politics like few others.  And like millions of others it was his writing, persona, and magazine that lead me to conservatism.  I own all of his books and have read them all excepting his last (Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription)

His range was remarkable.  He wrote political polemics; syndicated columns; unique memoirs; books on sailing, language, and faith; and novels.  He singlehandedly changed the perception of what conservatism could be.  And in the process changed America.

RIP.

Norman passed away Sunday:

Christian music legend Larry Norman died Sunday of heart failure, according to his brother Charles Norman. He was 60.
Norman, a blonde, long-haired rocker who is often called the father of Christian rock music, was a giant in the Christian music industry, said Chris Willman, senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly.

Here is a YouTube of the classic Why Don't You Look Into Jesus:

Lyrics after the jump

Source.

So that is one goal I can cross off as having met.  Who says no one achieves their New Year's Resolutions?

I am not going to make such a pledge this year, however, as it is already clear that my time and focus are going to be severely challenged.  Things might change, but right now I can't set that as a goal and be realistic.