Snowboarder Shaun White would have made a great Weasley brother.
Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron's record was actually boring to me. I didn't watch it live, nor did I want to. I'll watch A-Rod if he ever does it. I was mildly amused by the fact that President Bush didn't call to congratulate, Hank Aaron was only there on video, and Bud Selig was busy meeting with some guy about steroids.
I felt really bad, however, for Barry's kid, Nicolai. Watch the video of 756, and pay close attention to how the man blows off his boy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3xxYfr9aaE
As Bonds approaches home plate, his son greets him, but Bonds just gives him a little high five and throws his hands up to the sky. His boy hugs him. Bonds does not hug back. He finishes looking up to the sky, then turns and walks away from his son.
The one truly great moment of the night was watching the battery-chuckers get punked by a New Yorker in a Mets jersey in the scrum for the baseball.
The annual report on President Bush’s health was released this week, and it revealed that Bush was treated for Lyme Disease last year. What sort of problems can Lyme Disease cause? Neurocognative impairment, hallucinations, and psychosis. I wonder how the treatment is coming along. I have trouble believing he's completely cured.
It's nice to see the NAACP giving Michael Vick the benefit of the doubt that the Duke lacrosse players never got from them.
"The students know that the disaster didn't begin on March 13 and won't end with what the police say or the courts decide." Fully 88 professors at Duke University signed a letter to the campus newspaper that included that quote. Do they still believe there was a disaster, now that the police and courts admitted that there was no evidence of a crime and strong evidence of actual innocence? They weren't talking about the accused boys' lives.
Many kids love to meet authors at book signings. Parents say it makes them more eager to read the books. For me, meeting an author has always been a disappointment. After reading an epic story, finding out that the author was a normal person, maybe even an unimpressive person, was a huge letdown, and it destroyed some of the magic of reading.
I heard someone the other day making the claim that we know God made the Earth and all the planets and stars for humans, because the odds of everything being so perfect for human life to develop on Earth was "more than a million to one." A few days later, I read that the typical sperm cell is one of about 200 million per batch. Every one of us is at least a 1 in 200 million odds beater. One in a million? Suddenly those seem like decent odds.
I recently read a piece of "trivia" that said 25% of all fires of unknown causes are related to rat activity. I tried, but cannot fathom, how they can determine such a thing if the fires were of "unknown causes."
After reading the hype about USC's football team this year, I think I now know why the Trojans lost at UCLA last season: they got caught looking ahead to this year's game.
That's about all I have to say about all that right now.
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