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Over at The Economist, my BFF notes the strange and wondrously-transformed political context in which, suddenly, “corn-ethanol subsidies are going to expire this year, and [...] no one is defending them.”

Which is remarkable not only for itself, but for the timing, as just before reading the above link I was thinking of a post along similar lines, after seeing this on the homepage of Cleveland.com this morning.

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Like my amigo Sean and, I suspect, most American atheists, I celebrate Christmas. And why not:

By Tony Piro

Peace out, buffalo peeps. Have a merry whateverthefuck, see you when I feel like posting again.

Since there was so much trouble over even having one this year, may as well make the effort to comment on the NFL season at least one more time.

Here in Cleveland, the Browns are the subject of a sorta-kinda quarterback controversy this week, at least among armchair quarterbacks. My man Seneca Wallace, fellow graduate of dear auld ISU, started on Sunday and showed some exciting flashes of athleticism before the whole team just kind of ran out of gas and Arizona completed a creeping comeback victory in overtime.

So right now we have a range of opinions just among the relatively small number of football pundits I keep up with. Peter King is on record strongly advocating that the Browns should stick with Colt McCoy, and focus on upgrading his supporting cast, as their best route to success. While a Canton reporter has suggested that, when you look at their records, Wallace has proven at least as effective as McCoy; combined with Wallace’s history with football czar Mike Holmgren, this could mean that Wallace starts in 2012, at least while yet another quarterback-of-the-future takes practice reps as his understudy.

Up here in Cleveland, though, one of the local hacks has declared today that Wallace and McCoy are both mediocre, and the Browns need to go back to the well for a savior at center yet again.

Personally, I don’t know; I find it more and more difficult to refute the “career back-up” label which more than one observer has applied to Colt McCoy. (more…)