edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
By Dave Anderson:
In a non-cooperative, multi-iteration game, the best strategy to ensure cooperation or at least non-douchebag behavior is tit for tat. This means make a choice that punishes the opposition for being a douchebag when they previously made a choice to be douchebags, and make a choice that rewards [...]
(Serially, I know this pic is inappropriate. But I have it, and when else does it make sense to use such a deplorable image?)Last issue of the term, full of holiday cheer.
Inside
Undercover at Powershift Thanksgiving with the O’Sullivans Elves behaving badly Holiday Drinking Game! Shameless Book Promotion What Happens when The OC goes to Texas [...]
So far we have finals in eight games and there are no upsets. Of course there are two BIG games this afternoon and evening:
#11 Oregon plays at Arizona and is a six-point favorite and
#19 Oregon State plays at Washington State and is a 31 point favorite. If both [...]
Hard-left policies lead to public outrage, counter-revolution
Play the online game: here.
HT:
[...] The following is an arranged cross-posting of trash talk between the Oregon Commentator and the Arizona Desert Lamp in preparation for Saturday’s football game vs. Arizona. Don’t like what’s being said? Feel free to trash talk back, and look for our rebuttal posting on the Desert Lamp website, www.desertlamp.com [...]
The ole’ polects over at the Arizona Desert Lamp have offered up a friendly wager on the upcoming Oregon vs. Arizona football game. If the Ducks win they will buy three of our book, By the Barrel: 25 Years of the Oregon Commentator at full price, with a memo [...]
Fans, we're nearing the end of the first extended road trip of the season--which has seemed awfully long already, even though only seven of the first dozen have been away games. I think it's just the newness of the season, getting only a couple of home-cooking games at a time [...]
Apparently, they've been getting a lot more realistic.
Below is a moving newsletter article by Oregonian Rick Johnson who runs Better Dads ministries. He was invited to speak at a men’s conference in Canada and came away changed himself.
By Rick Johnson, Oregon
Better Dads.net Ministries
The Promise Keepers Game Day 2009 [...]
Yes, yes. I realize some of you never had to go through the pain and heartache of putting your quarter up to reserve a video game. Only to have some pushy guy cut in front of you. You’ve been spoiled by having video games at your disposal ever since you [...]
Apparently LaGarrette Blount was reinstated today.
My opinion is, and always has been, that his suspension should have been a game, two at the most. Anthony Reddick, the player who used his helmet as a weapon and sparked a humongous brawl in 2006, was only [...]
