Another reason I love my DVR: I was able to record the Gold Medal game last night at 1:30AM local time and watch it this morning without knowing anything about it. It is the only game in the only event I've watched in its entirety this Olympiad and it was a thriller. Very happy I could do that.
About anthems: I'm still puzzled by the use of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA as a rallying cry. It's not a particularly Pro-American song. It's a protest song and a kind of sad one at that. That may be ironic in Beijing, where protests are usually not blaring from the loudspeakers in the public square, but I wonder if the irony is being aimed at the US team and fans by the Chinese or vice versa. Does anyone really listen to the lyrics?
The Sunday Image: I offer one today from just outside our kitchen window. It's been raining all day.
CrabAppleLane Althea - August 24, 2008
About today's QOTD: 20 times? What does it take to get someone off of the road? Will double criminal negligent homicide be enough? The grieving husband/father is justified in suing everyone that had a hand in putting this guy behind the wheel.
11 days until football season ...
Quote of the Day
Walker has a history of driving offenses and arrests dating to the 1980s; police have said he had his license suspended 20 times.
Associated Press
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "In case you want to know whether or not Gianvito's movie is for you, these are the opening 3.5 minutes of the piece, which give a good sense of what you're in store for:"
Kinda reminded me of the Twin Peaks movie I just slept to. Sorry, not for me. -Rob
Was it the 1984 Republican convention where they played that song as if it was a positive anthem? I seem to remember being aghast at the amount of clueless that took, and I was a Reagan supporter.
I knew a guy back in the 1980s, friend of a friend, who was convicted over a dozen times of DWI or careless driving involving alcohol. He really needed to be institutionalized one way or another, but the courts wouldn't do anything. His friends tried to keep him from driving, yet he always managed to get his hands on a car somehow. The inevitable finally happened one night when he rolled a car(yeah, he was drunk) on a cloverleaf. The sad and awful truth was that everyone was just relieved that he didn't take anyone else with him.
I didn't remember hearing it at the convention, Dave, but I didn't watch the convention, itself. I watched the highlights on the news. That's pretty much what I'll do this year, too.
Thankfully, it's much harder than it used to be to achieve 4th, 5th, or 6th DWI offender status in Louisiana these days. I know some that are headed in that direction, though. It frightens me.