I heard the Traiders game on my drive back from SoCal, and lost the signal from Interstate 5 to Gilroy. (Darn'd mountains...) When I got the signal again, we (Traiders) have lost.

Nov. 10 @WSU, definitely win-able game.

Nov. 17 vs. USC, be an interesting game, see if Franklin can run, and our receivers can get open like Oregon did.

Nov. 24 vs. Stanford, back-to-back tough games.

Thanks for the link to that article. He employed the proven writing strategy I learned in third grade:

"When you have to write a paper and you really don't have much to say, find different ways to be redundant, inject lots of fluff, and hope the reader isn't paying attention."

He really makes excellent use redundancy. The first sentence included this:

<it is ridiculous that in this day and age people should have to stand on line for four, five or more hours to cast a vote.>

And then in the second sentence:

<there is just no good reason that people should have to wait in lines like they do in some places to cast their vote in this day and age.>

The third sentence repeats:

<There is no good reason that we have not come up with a viable online voting technology.>

Then after taking a fluff break to mention other things (booking travel, trading stocks, etc.) that are now done online, we return to the main theme:

<The time has come to make online voting a reality.>

At this point, he relieves us slightly from redundancy by injecting some inane and meaningless fluff related to implementation:

<We need to come up with systems, technologies and processes that will make online voting accurate, easy and secure. I know there are challenges. Until we are 100% sure it works as planned, we probably need a Plan B and Plan C.>

But he doesn't stray from redundancy for long:

<we can come up with a system that will make the idea of waiting for the better part of a day in line to vote as quaint as...>

This is followed by some more fluff. This time a brief discussion about cost considerations of this new system. It includes a meaningless comparison to the 6 billion spent on advertising for the recent election (which would not have changed had online voting been implemented). Then he admits that the old system really can't be made to go away (so there's really no cost savings).

I'm almost lulled to sleep reading this, although through bleary eyes I see a quote from JFK's speech about going to the moon. Finally, I'm awakened by a pep talk:

<I know the tech industry can make safe, easy, secure online voting a reality if we put our minds to it. Solving problems is part of what makes us great. It is what makes America great. How about it?>

And then of course, he concludes with a final flourish of redundancy:

<Online voting is an idea whose time has come. The tech industry needs to rise to the challenge.>

There are quite a few other excellent books by Shirer.

I particularly liked his: "The Collapse of the third Republic", a brilliant work, which goes together nicely with the "Rise and Fall".

Also: "The Berlin Diaries" written on a day to day basis in Berlin during 1930s. They are especially valuable as an original first-hand account of the author who lived in Berlin at the time.

Similar work, but more structured/edited with the benefit of a hindsight is Shirer's memoir:

"The nightmare years:1930-40".