If you don't know the name George Will you should get familiar with him. Will is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who writes a nationally syndicated column that's probably carried in your local paper. He is both conservative and highly respected.
George Will is also a recognized expert on all things related to baseball. He's a Cubs fan, but even smart guys have blind spots. He's written two scholarly books on the sport, which explains why Mike & Mike called him this morning.
Don't know about Mike & Mike? They have a radio show on ESPN radio called "Mike & Mike in the Morning" that is also carried on ESPN2. It comes on at 5 a.m. here and I watch it unless Pam is in the room, in which case I typically switch over to The Today Show.
All of that to say that when Mike & Mike call George Will you're going to get the best. In fact the next guest they had on complained that he had to follow Will. You can listen to Mike & Mike's conversation with George Will here.
A guy goes in to see his doctor, who immediately notices that the man has two black eyes, a bandage over his left ear, and bad bruises all over his arms. The doctor asks him what happened.
"My wife and I went out to play a round of golf, and on the 4th hole we both sliced our tee shots into a cow pasture. We climbed through the fence to look for our balls. I noticed a cow with a white spot on her rear, so I went over, lifted the cow's tail, and said to my wife, 'This looks like yours.'"
This one's for Jeff:
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I got the table finished. Put four coats of varnish, so it should be awhile before she wears through it again. She's going to call me Friday morning to schedule a delivery time.
Monday I'm going to start a drywall repair job. They had a leak at the edge of their flat roof and water ran down the inside of their bedroom wall. It ran between the drywall and the paint, and the latex paint separated and drooped down the wall. I'll remove the paint and see if the drywall can be patched or if it will need to be replaced. The complicating factor is the ceiling, which is 14' up.
Our nation's first Black President appointed our nation's first Black Attorney General, Eric Holder. A.G. Holder gave a speech today in which he said America is "essentially a nation of cowards" for refusing to discuss issues of race. He said that while the workplace is fairly integrated, the weekends in America look pretty much the same as they did 50 years ago. He added that America is voluntarily socially segregated.
Does anybody else see anything slightly odd about a Black A.G., appointed by a Black President ripping on America for being racist cowards?
In between coats of varnish I studied for Sunday, and while doing that I had Pandora pumping through my laptop and into the speaker system I have for it. Pretty loud. I had the "Classic Opera" station selected, which meant a string of overtures and arias. Pam was out running errands. She calls it "screaming women" so I only blast that music when she's not home.
I was raised with classical music and enjoy opera, including divas singing arias. Pam wasn't raised with screaming women.
(Insert punch line here.)
So is there any reason to continue with Black History Month? Eric Holder obviously thinks so.
The other day I heard a conversation on NPR between two individuals - one a journalist and the other a university professor, and both Black - debating the question. The question of the continuing need for Black History Month is a debate that couldn't have taken place five years ago. Unthinkable. But now, with a Black President, even some Blacks think the time for Black History Month has passed and the country would be better served by a full integration of Black history into the entire curriculum instead of a focused month.
Whaddaya think?
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