Law school survival tip

Law school survival tip: eating surplus bagels left in commons from an earlier event is ok. But... avoid the cream cheese!

Saucey Policy

Policy is a funny word. Say it five times in a row. Did you make up a little song ?

Another generation

The house finally settles down as the kids and I stop our chatter and tuck into dinner. Realizing that there was a lull Dakota says as if on cue, "What did Lincoln look like? I know he had a hat."

So funny.

Dangerous hunger ~ bad for

Dangerous hunger ~ bad for grocery shopping ~ worse for count dooku

Blogging while shopping: steamfresh is

Blogging while shopping:
steamfresh is lazy as i.
Refrigerator.

The multi-talented Scooter

I don't particularly like the Yankees, and I don't particularly like baseball unless I'm watching it live, but bombast and cheap laughs are each occasionally fun, and Phil Rizzuto (unwittingly) provided the play-by-play for Meat Loaf's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light", so Scooter brightened even my world.

R.I.P. Scooter

"Holy Cow! It's a hit."

Phil Rizzuto, the beloved yet paradoxically underappreciated color commentator for Yankees broadcasts on WPIX Channel 11 was the sports announcer from my childhood. Much to my regret, I didn't get to go to many Yankees games nor I was particularly good on baseball trivia. As such, I could not be a "superfan."

But I liked Rizzuto.

It seems like Scooter was the only sports announcer on TV at that time who realized that the people at home where watching the screen and that those people had a basic understanding of the rules of baseball. Therefore, he didn't find it necessary to state the obvious, except for comic effect (see above).

At some point, it seems like Scooter realized he was getting paid to show up and be himself and that it wasn't always necessary to talk about the game, or baseball for that matter. Frequently apropos of nothing, one sensed that this completely freaked out the other announcers who seemed totally unable to respond.

Apparently, he'd often leave before the game was over. I understand that. Some of those years were pretty dismal for the Bombers. I like to imagine that one at least one occasion, he decided midsentence that

Oh William

Your last haiku fails
the middle line is quite wrong
refrigerator

who said Haiku have to make sense?

heeheehee

That's right ladies and gentlemen, she's back!

L

It's a bit late to parody Dave's original blog, but whatever, it's something to do while my meal cooks.

Ravenous person ~
ancient beeping hunger ~
lunchtime doubly so ~

No, I wasn't really blogging while driving.

What's up with I-10? ~
a river of death, more like ~
Let me exit, jerk! ~

Well... Obama just lost my vote.

Do I stop supporting people on a single issue? If it is important enough.

When I read that Obama would be open to invading Pakistan, I am reminded of a proverb that my middle-school home economics teacher attributed to Confuscius: "Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

I could trot out all the reasons why this is bad politics and worse foreign policy, but the media will do that and then some over the next few weeks.

Instead, my sole additiona comment is that this sort of statement coming from the "fresh and new" candidate is very discouraging.