Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 12/09/2007

Concisely summarizing his career as a resourceful clutch performer in the NFL, the title of New York Jets' wide receiver Wayne Chrebet's autobiography spoke volumes: Every Down, Every Distance.

Birthdays:
Deacon Jones b. 1938
Dick Butkus b. 1942
Pit Martin b. 1943
World B. Free b. 1953
Otis Birdsong b. 1955

FOR ARGUMENT’S SAKE

For the curmudgeon on your holiday gift-giving list, may we recommend Crimes Against Logic? This tidy little British import, by a philosophy lecturer at Cambridge University, exposes all the faulty reasoning and double-talk expressed by politicians, talk-show hosts, newspaper columnists, and others who offer their opinions on the world. Whyte exposes weird science, inconsistency, prejudice, empty words...for what they are: hooey! Perfect for debaters, political junkies, and armchair philosophers.

CRIMES AGAINST LOGIC, by Jamie Whyte (McGraw-Hill, 2004)