"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance." - Robert R. Coveyou

Football starts tonight! It will probably look like a H.S. game, but it's football.
Then again, it's the Seahawks, so make that Jr. High.

I felt better when I got up this morning so I did the 19-mile route and finished with a 17.8 mph average. That's good; the way I feel now isn't. Maybe I got a little ahead of things with this cold.

The last time I got myself in trouble for keeping my thoughts to myself was... Funny, I can't remember. So why do I so often forget that basic principle?
There's another reason I pushed that 19-miler.

Forty nine states have some form of balanced budget amendment. Vermont is the exception.

The U.S. spends $2.3 billion a year on the International Space Station. The costs of 33 shuttle supply missions adds another $35 billion over the life of the Station. The U.S. total for the ISS will hit about $100 billion by the time the program ends in 2017. Most scientists agree the project has yet to produce a single scientific discovery with any impact for life on earth.

I think I think...
We didn't learn from the French in Vietnam and we didn't learn from the Russians in Afghanistan.
"Those who don't learn from history...."

There are no TSC stores in the entire state of Arizona. Another thing to miss about Michigan.
The good news: they don't sell Carharts here, either.

The final members of the SuperCommittee have been named. The six Senators and six Congressmen, half Republicans and half Democrats, are tasked with coming up with a way to close $1.2 trillion of the budget shortfall by the end of the year. If they don't a set of mandatory measures automatically takes effect.
I'm going to go way out on a limb here and predict they won't reach agreement. Just among the six members from the house, the three Democrats have called for tax increases and the Republicans have vowed to oppose any.

No one who gambles at a casino leaves with any of the house's money. The casino takes theirs off the top. Anyone who "wins" takes that money from someone who lost it at that casino. Which is why gambling has been called consensual stealing.