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“That old joke about athletes taking basket-weaving classes would be a step up from this.” -Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News
I feel like I’ve been watching this game for about 8 hours, and we still have the bulk of the 4th quarter to go. Maybe the absence of anxiety and/or disappointment makes the time go by more slowly.
I don’t buy his argument about idiographic versus nomothetic research. It depends on what level you’re observing. He seems to be saying that Jay Smith’s quest to get to the bottom of this is misplaced because it’s an N of 1 – one scandal – and therefore can’t demonstrate a pattern. I would argue that within the scandal, there’s plenty of space to look for patterns. We’re not talking about one athlete who was steered to a fake class; we’re talking about hundreds. That’s a pattern.
I only knew one of the 90’s songs (“Come as you Are”), at least by name. Out of curiosity I checked to see if the music of the 90’s of any other recent century was more to my liking. Turns out the 90’s are kind of dull in each of the last 4 centuries. A notable exception is Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” which debuted in 1791. I have been known to listen to the overture over and over. It maketh me happy.
I would like to feel triumphant sometime, instead of this feeling of crumpled relief. But I’ll take it.
