Necessary Roughness

No blogging for me tomorrow, so here’s my entry in advance:

Friday night at Auburn Hills seems to me a predictable consequence of some of the practices in the NBA.

To mark what could possibly be my last night in Kilgore/Longview — plans call for me to be in Houston for December instead — I went to the Sports Page and played about 4 hours of trivia: 3 hours of ½ hour countdown and 1 hour of Sports Trivia.

After all the recent hubbub about the role of morals and religion in government, it struck me as funny (funny like Kurt Vonnegut’s Hocus Pocus, as opposed to funny like Blue Collar Comedy Tour) that the next book in my stack should relate to this topic.
David Limbaugh’s book, Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against [...]

Not much intellectual capital being spent on the opinion page of the Newark (Ohio) Advocate these days. The only article on the web site today was Democrats lack a streamlined message (link dead), by Ric Bolton in Granville. All quotes are complete, with the author’s grammatical errors. I feel guilty about even commenting on this, [...]

New car… my wife’s high school alma mater going to State in soccer… Watkins Memorial actually winning (link dead) the Ohio Division II state crown. Congratulations, Warriors.

In this article on myway.com, the final paragraph reads thus:
Some conservatives also have quietly questioned Gonzales’ credentials on core social issues. And he once was a partner in a Houston law firm which represented the scandal-ridden energy giant Enron.
Someone got a heck of a return on their investment for their journalism degree, huh?

On the second leg of my flight home, I asked for Diet Sprite and got a “Sprite Lite”. It wasn’t bad, but the can recommends that the beverage be serviced “Ice Cold,” which caused me to wonder if it breaks down at room temperature. Comforting. I missed my original connection in Dallas, but I got [...]