Fay, Gustav, Hannah, Ike and Josephine: The backups for KC and the Sunshine Band? Or Sly and the Family Stone? Dating myself, I know. Fay amounted to not much. Gustav, for all the roar, dropped some rain but made landfall in a region with low populace. Hanna? More wet. Ike? Losing steam. Josephine? Yawn.
- Tremors. San Francisco rumbled on Friday night to the tempo of a 4.0. Like the hurricanes, it seems a merciful nudge, BUT IT'S FOOTBALL SEASON!! Not to mention the couple of 6.0's in China recently, and I'm not talking about men's diving.
- Goobers. Speaking of football, Cincinnati Bengal Chad Johnson, number 85, wanted to have "OchoCinco," the monikker he prefers the media to use when referring to his holiness, emblazoned on the back of his jersey. The Bengals sanely stated, "No." Not to be thwarted, the wide receiver had his last name changed to "OchoCinco." HA! Take that! I suspect the folks in the Bengal front office still have sore ribs from unquenchable laughter. My Spanish may be rusty, but "OchoCinco" either stands for "eighty-five" or "dork." I'm not sure which. At least illegal-aliens who have trouble with numbers will be able to I.D. the biggest ding-dong between the sidelines.
- More shaking. A rockslide in Egypt has killed 24 and buried a shantytown.
- Lame duck. Unemployment, a statistic that's about as clear as the U.S. tax code, is at a five-year high. Looks like President "Pin-cushion" Bush is going to take a few more sticks before getting out of his own personal Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Sarah's savvy. Continuing the stranger-than-fiction rise of Sarah Palin and adding to the extraordinary nature of her speech Wednesday night, did you know that her teleprompter malfunctioned mid-speech?
- Qaddafy, Gadhafi, Khadaffy...or just plain Daffy. Does anybody know why Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is in Libya's insane assylum? Perhaps Muammar has a to-die-for recipe for humous.
- Continuing the "insanity" theme. A Newsweek article attempting to paint Sarah Palin as Mussolini's bed-fellow begins with this headline: "What Happened to Family Values? Palin's pro-life extremism is as ethically flawed as it is politically damaging to the GOP." So being pro-life now stands contrary to family values? You can read some of the freakiest polemical contortions here. If you understand "2 + 3 = garden hose," you'll track nicely with the article.
- Giving a man a fish. Once again, I'll try and end on a happy note. Economist Walter Williams speaks of the damage that has been done by affirmative action within the Black community in his recent column (here). His cogent analysis applies to government aid in all non-disaster circumstances.
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Not to be nit-picky, but I heard that Ike had strengthened to a cat 4...I'm not running around in terror, but I'm not yawning either. :)
You're spot on! When I wrote it, earlier this afternoon, it had diminished in strength. I "timed" the post for later this evening and by then, the beast had roared back to life. Unreal!
The sad thing is, OchoCinco doesn't even translate to 85. The direct translation is eight, five. Then again, I doubt the press is going to start saying, "Ochenta y Cinco" every time he catches a pass.
-JP
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