A few thoughts I will share as I drink my coffee on this unseasonably warm morning:
*After ten consecutive days of not going into work, I still don't want to go into the office tomorrow.
*Kevin Millwood is the new Chan Ho Park for the Texas Rangers. Have fun losing for the next five seasons, bid. And don't bitch about a la Miguel Tejada when you suddenly realize that the Rangers suck.
*Mets should not get Manny Ramirez. The guy is a clown.
*The AP is running an article, "John Kerry to keep options open in 2008" No. Fucking. Shit. The piece is full of the sloppy speculation one comes to expect from the AP. See, he travels to raise money for other candidates. (Because he's so craven and calculating! the AP quietly snickers.) Nowhere is an admission that maybe campaigning for fellow party members is a good thing for politicians to do in and of itself. The piece closes with a quote from some GOP campaign worker who claims that he "prays every night that John Kerry is the nominee again." This is the oldest trick in the book, and you'll see a lot of it in the run up to 2008 whether the Dem nominee is Kerry, Clinton, Edwards, whoever. Beware of fat GOP workers bearing predictions and/or advice for the other party's candidate.
*Siegfried Sassoon was a weird guy.
*Matt Bai is a hack journalist.
*The United States had a secret plan to invade Canada and probably has an updated one now. I'm not shocked at this - a lot of countries have contingency plans for a lot of other countries. I read the article and found myself somewhere between amused and annoyed. Even the Washington Post, or perhaps especially the Washington Post, can't deliver a story without a bit of jingoistic claptrap mixed in.
*New Year's resolutions are a pretty lame tradition. Still, I find myself making them.
*I really waste too much time sitting at this infernal machine.
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Posted by mike at January 2, 2006 10:36 AMYou may very well be spending too much time at that "infernal machine," but I personally don't think that you are blogging enough. Come on, let's get serious - it's not like you can use the excuse, "I just don't get worked up enough about things to blog." So get to it, guy!
Posted by: Amanda on January 4, 2006 01:06 AM