I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad I take something for it.

My friend Sherry sent me the blast on top of this post, along with several others. I won't necessarily credit her with subsequent blasts from her list...unless they push the envelope and I can deflect responsibility. (Some are pretty funny.)

This afternoon I hand addressed 90 envelopes for letters about the curriculum's availability. The CD's will arrive Wednesday and after I give them a final proof they'll go to duplication. This went a lot faster this year, in large part because the artwork and engineering didn't need to be done from scratch; they could just modify last year's slightly.

June 8 is Joan Rivers' birthday. She was born in 1889.

The President is trying too hard to come across as angry. Now he's looking to see "whose ass to kick." Huh? He's the President, for Pete's sake, and he can't kick anybody's ass. He knows that. It's political theater but he's a bad actor on this one.

I like running because it's among the most egalitarian sports. You're not significantly faster for spending $500 on shoes than someone who spent $40. It comes down to who has more natural ability and who trained harder. And training can beat a lot of natural ability.

Contrast that with auto racing, where equipment is everything and budget buys the flag. OK, that's an exaggeration, and good mechanics and drivers are important, but there's a reason they all want major sponsors.

Note: poker is egalitarian, but it's not a sport. Neither is spelling.

Let's adopt a SES, or Sport Egalitarian Scale. We'll assign a sport a number from 1 to 10, with 10 assigned to sports where a bigger budget buys better equipment that in turn buys an almost insurmountable advantage.
F1 racing gets a 10, no question.
The major pro sports - football, baseball, basketball - all get pretty low numbers.
Bobsledding goes at least a 7, maybe an 8.
Pole vault? 6, and that is NOT a sport you want to try on the cheap.
Boxing - 1

Golf?