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3:49:00 PM EDT
Hearing My wife mowing -- Now, now. She LIKES to mow.
Quick Afternoon Thoughts
So, opening up the comment thread on the following subjects I'm tossing around in my skull at the moment.
1. This article is vaguely irritating; it's one of those "Sure Barry Bonds is a jerk, but boy can he hit a ball!" pieces that come out like clockwork. Well, what if Barry Bonds is a jerk? If he is, he's a harmless jerk, in that he appears to keep his actionable activities on the general populace to an admirable minimum. If he doesn't owe me money, is not beating me with a stick or hitting on my wife, I'm cool with Bonds, and think you should be, too. Ask this guy if he cares that Bond's not a cuddly bobblehead.
2. Kid writes a short story on a school computer that scares someone; apparently that's a felony. Reading this, I'm recalling a short story I wrote in high school where I dispatched my teachers in gruesomely appropriate ways; my teachers, thankfully, were amused rather than disturbed. I wonder what would happen to me now. Well, actually, I don't; please see above. Hopefully someone will remember that the first amendment applies before this kid is tossed into the klink.
3. The US News & World Report college rankings are out, with most of the usual suspects in most of the usual places (my own alma mater, the University of Chicago, is #13). I love these rankings mostly because I love watching college admissions people airily maintain that the rankings don't matter, yet freak out mightily when their rankings drop. But I do agree that people who pick a school because of its ranking rather than, say, whether they like the school will probably quickly realize they've made a $35,000 mistake. High school seniors: Don't be that guy.
Discuss.
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Apparently, at some point, we got off track and decided school was a giant daycare rather than a place for learning. No money for teachers, but private security guards and metal detectors? Sign us up! Good thing I don't have kids, I don't know where I'd send the poor things. Did you know there's a 500 character limit? This WAS a lot longer.
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As a long-time aoler and couple-of-year blog reader, I was properly ecstatic when I saw that aol was initiating a blogging program. So ecstatic, in fact, that I set up my own blog at http://journals.aol.com/ceklu
ndesq/TheOtherShoe/ .Come on by some time. And see if aol will increase the length-limit to 5000 characters, eh?
We'll never get a Den Beste with that short a limit.
10/8/07 6:25 PM