Super Bowl XLIV was either going to be a close game, or a blowout, depending on if the NFC Champion showed up. In the first quarter, I think most people thought it was going to be more of the latter.
But then another team showed up wearing New Orleans uniforms.

And it was the team we were hoping to see, the aggressive New Orleans Saints,and it was the team that, in the end, won the Super Bowl.
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News Report: The-Evil-Doctor-Merlin-Channing-Lowe-Jr. has moved his household within walking distance of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-Compound,

Carnage to follow.
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When I learned that this year’s NFL Pro-Bowl was being hosted BEFORE the Super Bowl, I was skeptical.

First, what NFL minded fan would watch the Pro-Bowl in the week hiatus between the NFC/AFC Championships, and the Super Bowl.

I wondered how the Sports Talking Heads would pull this off.
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I learned more about Keynesian Economics and Laissez-faire Economics in this faux-Hip-Hop video than I learned in College. (Seriously)

Hattip to Cisco
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HEY! Guess What? Searchy Fun is BACK!

I found a readout, and while it is slightly different than before, it gives legitimate results:

So welcome back to the most favorite regular series of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com: Searchy Fun.

For those of you who came in late, these are the top 20 search strings used to find Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com on the World-Wide-Web.

Let’s get to checking!
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The Modernist Papers

I first heard of Populism in my College History Course of Post-Civil-War United States History. I was confused by it. At first, I saw it was a bunch of Union Thugs standing in the way of prgress (so it left a bad taste in my mouth). Then in a different sub-era they were opposing the divergence of the United States Treasury from the metallic (Gold), and the bi-metallic system (Gold and Silver), which the Fed needed to do to (and eventually did.)

Eventually, I figured out that the Populism movement was for the little man, and at the same time was transitory. It switched between two positions, if you will:

• Opposition to the Elite, where the Elite were the Big Businesses and the Corporations
• Opposition to the Elite, where the Elite were Big Government

You can probably see that the two polarities were often polar opposites. And the minority at the time would claim they were the populists.
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As all of you should know, my all-time favorite team in all sports is the Philadelphia Eagles. I have followed them since the late 1980s through present.

They are not going to the Super Bowl this year.

As some of you might know, I have another football team I’ve been perennially fond of, and that is the New Orleans Saints.

They are going to the Super Bowl, this year, and have won the NFC Championship, defeating the defecting Favre and the Minnesota Vikings.
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Here we are, what started as an experiment in the web is now 8-years old.

Eight Years, 2163 articles, and 8305 comments later, we’re still typing.
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I have not commented much on Football, this season, in fact, the last football post I authored was on the Eagles’ Bye Week.

While it was not the best of Eagles’ seasons, my favorite team did make it to the playoffs, and were serious contenders for not only the NFCEast Champion, but also the 2nd seed in the NFC.
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In the Global War on Terror, and George W. Bush’s Axis of Evil, I fear we might have lost media presence in one hot spot that, when I look closely, scares the hell out of me.

We have the media accented hotspots:

• North Korea
• Afghanistan
• Iran
• Iraq (not so much) but it is still on the media’s map.
• Russia and Georgia, and as a postulate to that, Russia and Ukraine.

But there is one that is missing in the GeoPolitical Front

• India and Pakistan.

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