Minutia and Detail

A happy Thanksgiving to you all. Thus starts the (most dreaded) holiday season; I have decided that I shall beat senseless the first person who wishes me a merry christmas, just to get it out of my system.

Flew home tonight, rather than driving. The airfare was a "birthday" present from my in-laws and it was much appreciated. Uneventful flight, once we got underway. Started funny, though. We taxi out to the runway and stop, the Captain gets on the mic and informs us that he's showing an cargo door ennunciator light and we must return to the terminal. The "door ajar" lamp turned us around. We taxi back to the terminal and stop. 20 seconds later you hear a cargo door being opened and slammed shut. Almost instantaneously, the Captain is back on the mic saying that the light has been extinguished and we're on our way again. Back out to the runway, where he promptly shuts the engines down. We've been delayed for 15 minutes due to the weather in Detroit (Rock City). After about 10 minutes, they light the fires and kick the tires and off we go.

If you're not reading James Lileks' "Bleat" on a daily basis, shame on you. He had a really good and funny commentary on Dr.Rice being named Sect.-O-State and the Administrations' "re-org" in general. Go read it now, there will be a quiz and it will affect your semester grade.

I'm putting the polishing touches on a recap of the disgraceful "basketbrawl" that took place last week. It's very Suess in it's idiom and the first draft was well received by the screening committee. Now if one of the screening committee would be so kind as to e-mail it to me so I can work on it over the long weekend.....

Metrospy has a really cool t-shirt that someone should get me for Festivus. Since we're on the subject; please go register your support for our unjustly embattled Marine.

As far as pissing off liberals, I hit upon a real winner today. A liberal aquaintance in Detroit (Rock City) was complaining about the price of gasoline; she had just paid something like $1.969 / gallon for gas and was pissed off. I told her that I had just filled up in Louisville and paid $1.779 per gallon. (Which is true) She wondered out loud "How can that be? Why the big discrepancy in prices?" "Didn't you hear?" I subtly asked "The Bush Administration has suspended the federal gasoline taxes until the Inauguration in all the states that he won as his way of saying Thanks". I think Cingulair lost a cell tower because of her (prompted) outburst. I know: I'm a really bad, bad man.....

Here's a worthy cause that we should all support; because we will all benefit in the long run. Please give it a look.

Just sayin' that's all: Target has the right to boot the Salvation Army from their doorstep for the same reason that the Boy Scouts can define who will be their Troop leaders and Augusta National can define who can be a member. It's called Freedom of Association. I'm not saying what Target did is right, the marketplace will ultimately decide the issue. More on this later