Trent Lott Really Said This Today

"It's hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what's wrong with these people," he said. "Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli's and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me."

All of it. All of it is stupid. All of it. But, "they all look the same to me" must be one of the most ignorant public utterances in recent decades.

When does this thing end?

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The Beav

Anyone reading this who knows me can attest that I am not a sports fan. Football is a game the rules of which I didn't really get until after college. Even today I'm pretty hazy on a bunch of it, but I've got a grasp.

I surfed past Monday Night Football tonight, then back; it was the first game in the New Orleans Superdome in 14 months. The last thing of significance that happened there was housing people (living and dead - bodies were stored in the refrigerators) in the aftermath of Katrina. Like night and day as they say.

There's a football announcer named Chris Berman, who I hear is really good. I find him way too undertalented for the level of production they throw at him. Nonetheless, I hear he's a good football announcer.

I just watched him introducing the half-time show, waxing poetic about the the energy of the crowd, the spirit of the people, and the level the team has brought it up to for this important game. But you know this stuff isn't impromptu. You know he has a teleprompter.

So why don't they prep him? Why do they let him say, "joie de vivre" like it rhymes with "joy day beaver"?

He probably only studied Latin.

Dogs of Fall

It's going to be 75 today. It's just a perfect day.

Jazz is visiting while Bill and Margo do Vegas. I took the two beasts to a field and let 'em rip. They found bunnies and squirrels and a dozen things I'll never see, gazelling through tall weeds and blackberry thickets. Birds and bees and dead things, smells in tones humans just can't hear.

Now they'll sleep and I can get some metal work done.