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January 14, 2013

Monday

Filed under: Whatever — pjsauter @ 8:08 am

It got up to 60° here yesterday, which isn’t a record but it sure was nice. The dogs certainly enjoyed getting into the mud (and making more by digging holes – as if they hadn’t already dug enough holes in the lawn. If anybody knows of a strategy to prevent the little varmints from digging hols, let me know. I’m considering filling them all in with QuickCrete®). Almost all the snow is gone (at least in the places where the sun gets above the trees), and it was still warmish this morning, but that’s all supposed to change throughout the day. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

One of the things that sucks about Monday is having to listen to Cokie Roberts on NPR on the way in to work. Monday is her day to appear on Morning Edition and dispense her inside-the-beltway conventional wisdom. Today I think she nearly peed herself cackling over how “ridiculous” the trillion dollar coin idea was, while telling us that the Democrats and Republicans are equally to blame for all this debt ceiling nonsense. I really would like to figuratively smack her upside the head – if anybody deserves a dope slap, it’s her.

Not all was bad on Morning Edition, though, as there was a rather interesting Part One interview of Nina Totenbag with Sonia Sotomayor about Sotomayor’s upcoming (or maybe it’s out already, I dunno) book. She had somewhat of a crappy early childhood, and she actually sounds like a pretty decent person. Not a great humanitarian like Antonin Scalia, of course, but it wouldn’t be fair to expect anybody to fill his britches.

Oh well, I suppose I ought to get back to work. A shame I can’t be working from home.

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Monday mornings are funny for me. The Morning Edition comes on while I am in bed and I try to stay down until trying to sleep longer is futile. I try to hear Cokie so I can be up to speed on what the village’s conventional ‘wisdom’ is. She hasn’t had an original thought in decades so she is essentially regurgitating what her Beltway buddies are passing off as ‘fact’. The weirdest damn thing is that after the first few seconds I actually drift off and don’t get back into the b’cast until later. The funny thing is that it happens during all of the replays, even if I am actually awake. I haven’t heard a whole Cokie spew for maybe years. It also does not seem to happen when someone fills in for her.

I heard most of the Sotomayor piece and will check it out on line. I would guess it will be expanded there. Very interesting and nice to hear a real human in there and on the SCotUS. I am still a fan of Nina Totenberg and almost never drift off when she is on the air.

Comment by vernon — January 14, 2013 @ 10:39 am

Welcome to the working week!

Comment by vernon — January 14, 2013 @ 10:47 am

Farewell, Jimmy. Shindig was like a religion to me.

Comment by vernon — January 14, 2013 @ 11:32 am

if anybody deserves a dope slap, it’s her.

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We had almost 70 degrees here and then it plummeted. I love the cold cold weather. Besides having a great excuse to wear hats, it kills the bugs.

They say to fill the holes with dog poop and keep doing it until they stop. I will say that worked for one of my dogs. Dog trainer told me if that doesn’t work, make a mixture of cayenne & water (don’t burn the poor pup tho) and poor in hole and cover.

So far I haven’t tried the cayenne, but I’m on the verge. He digs out of frustration – he can’t climb the tree and get that damn squirrel.

Comment by OKat — January 14, 2013 @ 8:54 pm

Helps put Lance Armstrong et al in perspective.

Nicole Cooke’s retirement statement in full

Thank you all for coming here today to be with me and hear what I am going to say. I am here to announce my retirement and in one sense that is a simple thing to say and a simple story, but given that the sport I have given my life to has become more ‘fantastic’ than any soap opera and it has just given witness to the greatest ever sporting fraud, about which we get new and wider revelations each day, I thought it appropriate to share with you some of my experiences and, importantly some ideas for the future. And, understanding that for the duration of my career the sport has been through the darkest years, I want to both reflect and look ahead. I hope that in some small way, my experiences can help.

I am going to recount one of the aspects of my past career that few know about or understand, but about which I am most proud. I am going to talk about the abuse of drugs in the sport of cycling and my experiences and then I am going to talk about changes in the sport and look ahead at one overlooked but absolutely vital aspect. more…..

(lookie there! One big link!)

Comment by OKat — January 14, 2013 @ 9:35 pm

pj, in case you missed it, Roger Waters was on The Daily Show tonight.

pjsauter Reply:
January 15th, 2013 at 7:27 am
No, I didn’t know that. I always record that and Colbert, but I often don’t get around to watching them (if I don’t watch them after a few days, I usually delete them). I’ll have to watch this one. Or just go to the website and see if there’s an “extended” version.

vernon Reply:
January 15th, 2013 at 11:09 am
I think that they finished this one in regulation. Waters had a spot of the flu and I think it was a struggle for him to make it at all.

Comment by vernon — January 14, 2013 @ 11:29 pm