Bull Moose Strikes Back

What can be said about Favre that hasn’t been said at this point? Maybe just that in a year where many grumbled that he was coming back just to break Marino’s record he has the Packers off to a 4-0 start.

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I’m not sure what the hell is going on in Burma, but as someone who walked by the Taco Bell on State Street near the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus thousands of times between 1993 and 1997, I’m sure it’s the fault of PepsiCo.

I forgot the kind of things the wacky-left protests when there is a Democratic president. The troubles in Burma jogged my memory.

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If you’re not watching the NL Central race, you’re missing something unique. Any two teams can have a race where both teams are trying to win, but in the NL Central both teams are trying to give the division to the other. It’s like that South Park episode, except for some reason I’m not laughing.

The Cubs get swept by the Fish, the Brewers respond by dropping two in a row. In the first loss they had the bases juiced multiple times, but managed to leave all the guys out on the bases. Pfew. That was close. They even had Derrik Turnbow go out at the end of the game and give up some runs just in case they got some more guys on base accidentally in the ninth. Tonight the Brewers got smart and just spotted the Padres a lead early.

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There is an interesting take on a outsider’s look at Lambeau Field here.

This quote caught my attention:

It’s not the heckling that bugged us, it’s how freaking annoying and un-knowledgeable the fans around us were.

Followed by:

Another thing that constantly bothers me is when fans don’t fully understand the rules. Either someone needs to explain them to Packers fans everywhere or they just had “Pass Interference Tourettes.”

I have to agree with him there. There are lots of fans in the stands at Lambeau who don’t really know the rules, strategy, how good or not good a player is, what a “Mike” linebacker is, etc. I remember hearing calls of “Pull Favre” at one particular game in 1999. That’s pretty stupid. Friends and I have puzzled over how a good chunk of the fans in possession of the most sought after tickets in the NFL, and therefore the world, could be so ignorant about the game. Theories are that they watch no other football so they get no perspective or TV analysis (for what that’s worth anymore); that they’re actually kind of blasé about the game but inherited the tickets; that they’re simply drunk not ignorant; and so forth. Don’t get me wrong there are many good fans, it’s just the ignorant ones that are loudest. Kind of like life in general, I guess.

I suppose I can (and do) say the same thing about the fans in Qwest, and even in a greater percentage, but they are easy to explain. They’re fair weather fans who pay attention to football when the Seahawks are good, and then in a pretty superficial way. Why the fans of the greatest team in the history of the NFL have fans like this guy describes is a little mystifying to me.

Some problems with his review:

1. Who the hell goes to a Packer game for food? You eat outside the stadium.
2. When you consider the alternatives serving only Miller products – which includes Leinenkugels – is not a bad thing.
3. Sitting in bleacher seats is the penance you have to pay to be clean enough to witness a game in the holy site of Lambeau Field. If it hurts your ass, I’m sure someone will be willing to take the ticket off of your hand.

And one last comment:

Encounters like these prompted lifelong Vikings fan and friend of the program, Mike to say, “I almost forgot why I hate Packers fans.”

Hey Mike: Fuck you. Not only are Viking fans the worst mix of ignorant lifelong fans and ignorant fair weather fans, but your team plays inside like a bunch of pussies. I never almost forget why I hate Vikings fans.

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I, and all the other law students here, received a special e-mail in my school in-box today. This one is all kinds of crazy:

Attorney Robbie Meeropol is the son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were wrongfully executed in 1953 during the Red Scare era. He is speaking, along with Attorney Lauren Regan, Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center in Portland, on the dangers of history repeating itself and the Bush administration’s depiction of environmental activists as domestic terrorists.

Is that the history we’re going with now? The Rosenbergs – two of the biggest traitors in American history – were wrongfully executed? Not even “allegedly wrongfully executed”?

At the bottom:

This public forum is a benefit for the Rosenberg Fund for the Children, a public foundation that provides for the educational and emotional needs of children of targeted activists in the United States.

Let me fix that:
This public forum is a benefit for the Rosenberg Fund for the Children, a public foundation that provides for the educational indoctrination and emotional needs of children of targeted paranoid activists in the United States.

Targeted activists… I wish they would target some of the activists around here. If they are “targeting” them, they aren’t doing a very good job.

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I usually sit in the back of the classroom, but for some reason this semester I thought I’d give the middle of the room a try. Strategic error. There are a couple of nosy left-wing lesbians (well, I assume they’re lesbians) who sit behind me and that insist on reading over my shoulder and making snide remarks about what I’m reading on my computer before class (or, admittedly, when class slows down to an unbearable pace).

Tonight I have a special treat for them. I have bookmarked some of the nastiest niche porn the internet tubes have to offer. The first time I hear them say anything about what is on my computer screen – blamo- German pregnancy/poo porn.

I’ll report.

UPDATE: Worked like a charm! After flipping out a little, they got the idea.

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• It’s amazing how fast France went from one of my least favorite countries to one of my most favorite countries. (Ugh… Kinda… I like their president, at least.)
• The boy came home today. Just in time for the old man to teach him how to play Halo 3.
• I have to go buy Halo 3, but I’m trying to act like an adult and wait until the weekend. It’s going to be my last “to me, from me” gifts for awhile.
• The girl comes home Saturday. Let the sixteen year three ring circus begin!
• The boy’s first and middle name are Theodore Roosevelt. I think I mentioned that before.
• Two people in my group quit today for totally unrelated reasons. That’s a huge chunk of my group. Absorbing their work ought to make work unbearable for the rest of the year.
• HURRAY! for Prince Fielder, the youngest player to ever hit 50 homers in a season! I’m going to assume that Prince and Cecil Fielder are the first father and son to have both hit 50 homers in a season.
• And it even means something! The Brewers are back to within 2 of the Cubs. If it were any other team, I’d say it was too late, but it’s the Cubs!
• Waiting to hear from three firms after my OCI interviews last week. I think I did OK in two of the interviews, really well in one. Who knows, though. I’d love to get my summer law clerk position set before Christmas, so I hope one of these guys bites so I can stop worrying about it.

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This was posted on school’s job board:

I am standby counsel to a pro se [representing himself] litigant who is a defendant under the sexually violent predator laws. Need individual for short term (length of case) to handle various duties assisting client. Must be able to handle difficult subjects.

If I didn’t have a job, I’d apply for that job. Not because I’m interested in helping a sex predator, but because that sounds like a glorious train wreck. Anytime someone represents himself, it is good for a few laughs. Throw in the fact that “sexual predator” usually equals “all kinds of crazy,” and you’re in for quite a show.  I’d be up for a front row seat to watch a sexual predator hang himself.

Unfortunately for this guy, and fortunately for society, doing a crappy job of representing yourself is generally not grounds for appeal.

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I registered for the drawing for the ability to buy postseason Brewers tickets a few weeks ago. From my e-mail box this morning:

Thank you for registering for a chance to purchase tickets for potential 2007 Division Series games at Miller Park. Unfortunately, your entry was not selected for this ticket offer.
But don’t forget, there’s still a chance to see the Brewers in the postseason at Miller Park!

Then they go on to tell me that all I need to do is buy a season ticket package for next year.

But still a chance to see the Brewers in the postseason at Miller Park, ha? I would’ve thought that the Brewers themselves had decided that wasn’t the case and decided to tell everyone by losing four of five in the decisive stretch of the division chase.

Maybe they should tell their front office.

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Yet another proud – yet not unexpected – moment from my alma mater.

Hey guys, we have a good football team now. You don’t need to act like psychos to get attention like they did in the sixties.

The left has done a good job over the last six years of making “Halliburton is evil” a truism. It’s rather kind of amusing. I’ve never been interested enough in defending Halliburton to really do the research to defend them, but whenever I hear “ZOMG! Teh HALLIBURTON is stealing money from us via Dick Cheney!” like in Administrative Law class, for example, I like to ask a couple questions:

1. Can you name one other company that has the capabilities to feed a division of soldiers on the other side of the world?

2. Can you name another company that can build hundreds of schools and hospitals in the war zone?

3. Do you know if they’d charge more than Halliburton?

If not, you don’t know enough to bitch, so shut up.

I’m sure Halliburton commits its fair share of gigantic corporation acts of inefficiency and institutional stupidity, but I’m not sure that protesting them because they have the nerve to make a profit makes any more sense than protesting GE or Westinghouse.

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My son had a chance to be born in a world where the Packers are a first place team, the Badgers are a top 10 college football program, and the Brewers are in first place. But sadly David Weathers is too incompetent to hold a two-run lead in the bottom of the ninth, thus ruining everything.

Not surprising, but distressing none-the-less. David Weathers, you’re on the list.

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James Oliver Rigney, Jr, who served two distinguished tours in Vietnam and wrote under the pen name Robert Jordan, died over the weekend.

Over the last five years I have immensely enjoyed reading his ‘Wheel of Time” series of books. Well, immensly enjoyed the first three or four, but still enjoyed the series as a whole. In fact, I thought the last book put the series back on track towards a great ending. Now I wonder if we’ll get that ending after investing about 11,000 pages – give or take – into the series.

The Wikipedia entry of the unfinished finale indicates that “Wheel of Time” fans shouldn’t lose hope:

Before his death, Jordan stated “I’m getting out notes, so if the worst actually happens, someone could finish A Memory of Light and have it end the way I want it to end.”

Here’s to hoping that Robert Jordan finds the Light and stays clear of Soul Blighter on his journey beyond.

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What’s up with the name Chuck coming back in the popular culture? I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and Good Luck Chuck are recent and upcoming movie releases, respectively. Also there is a TV show simply called “Chuck” premiering this fall on NBC.

My problem with this is with one exception, a very nice guy who just passed away, every person I’ve ever known who was called “Chuck” has either been a Class-A dickhead, or retarded (clinically). See, e.g., Chuck Schumer (I’ll make no statement as to which one I think he is.)
I’ve got enough dickheads to deal with in real life, thanks.

Feel free to nominate any other Chucks that I may be missing who are exceptions, but really, I can’t think of any.

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It’s official. The American Leftist can find racism in anything. I feel free to declare that today after reading this piece in the Seattle PI today which declares “To Kill a Mockingbird” a racist novel.

I was trying to pick out one portion that demonstrates how bad the author misses the point, but the whole short piece is a world class example of point missing.

Try this one:

In Mockingbird, the black folk are as simple-spoken as toast, and they’re ever so lucky to have Atticus Finch on their side.

Well, yeah. I don’t think there were many Barack Obama caliber speakers in the black population of Great Depression era rural Alabama. And yes, they were lucky to have Atticus on their side. Atticus is probably the most respected fictional lawyer in the history of American fiction. Who wouldn’t be lucky to have him on their side?

But the author of the article, Fred Leebron, doesn’t really hide his real motivation for trashing “Mockingbird”, professional jealousy.

I’m happy for Harper Lee that her one novel was a rock-solid, best-selling, completely accessible to one and all morality tale.

Then later:

I wish I could say I was mystified by the continued act of literary obeisance we pay this clearly limited and exaggerated tale, a book that could just as well be read as a young-adult novel, but why should I be?

Oh yes, he’s so happy that Harper Lee’s overblown children’s book is so celebrated while real masterworks like “Six Figures” and “In the Middle of All This” go unheralded.

Of course, I probably should have just disregarded anything else he said after his opening sentence:

As your typical left-leaning liberal in need of a vacation from the redneck celebration of life in these United States, I ought to be glad that “To Kill a Mockingbird” endures like Styrofoam in this country.

What a jerkoff.

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“Motorcycles are a lot of fun, but they attract morons like shit attracts flies.”

- Some guy on the ferry this morning who was looking at my motorcycle on the ferry this morning.

Ain’t that the truth.

Some guy actually made fun of me once when I told him I’ve only had my motorcycle up to 100 mph once and I doubt I would ever have it up that fast again. I’m lucky to have this voice that kicks in when I do something stupid. I was curios to see what 100 mph on a motorcycle felt like, and I knew it wasn’t smart. I did it anyway, because I felt that the empty highway in an area with few opportunities for deer to run in front of me mitigated the stupidity but the voice will not be overridden by curiosity again now. (By the way, 100 feels a lot like 75, a speed I feel comfortable with.)

From what I can tell you, a lot of guys riding motorcycles, especially rice-burner crotch-rockets, don’t have that voice. I wish I had a buck for each time a guy wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops on a Ninja or the like rolled by me on the highway like I was standing still. I’d have like… fifty bucks. My favorite was the guy in North Carolina not wearing a shirt who passed me on my rented Road King and almost ate pavement after swerving back into the lane. I had visions of picking up his skin and handing it to the EMT.

And of course, all that isn’t to say I haven’t seen my share of stupidity on road bikes. Even my own road bike from time-to-time. But I do wear my helmet all the time, try to drive like I’m invisible, wear stuff that makes me not invisible, anticipate the stupidest thing that any car, truck, RV, or other motorcycle around me can do at all times and be prepared for it. I never drive drunk and cut my allowable intake down even further before riding. That’s all I can do. And you know what? I still manage to have fun riding.

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Here’s how mine is shaping up:

5:15 AM: Get up.

6:20 AM: Get on Ferry

7:30 AM: Be at Hospital

9:30 AM: Monitor baby being extracted from my wife via C-section

9:45 AM: Monitor baby’s care as he’s stabilized and prepared for surgery.

11:00 AM: Change into suit.

11:10 AM: Walk three blocks over to law school .

11:40 AM: Interview with big-time Seattle IP firm.

Noon: Exhale.

I don’t know what I’m going to do the rest of the afternoon until class starts at 6.

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Today is the sixth anniversary of the weirdest job interview I ever had and I imagine I probably ever will have.

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If my law school was cool, they’d be offering a “The Law and 24” class. Instead our fluff classes are the likes of “Family Formation/Recognition and Related Constitutional Issues” (that’s “How we Can Twist the Law to Demand Gay Marriage Rights” in English), “Law and Sexuality,” and “Latina/os and the Law.”

In other law school news, we rocketed up another 8 spots in the new US News & World Report rankings. Who knew “Level of Bush Hatin’” was a measurement they use to gauge the quality of law schools? Fine with me. The lower that number, the easier it is for me to find a job that pays big monies.

Seriously, though, I’ve thought this before, but with this semester of  Administrative Law I’m thinking it again: I’m getting shortchanged in my legal education due to the fact that many of my classmates are imbeciles who can’t hear anything about the current incarnation of the Executive Branch without having to either say something snarky, start a whisper conversation with the Marxist next to them, or just lose their shit in general and vere the class violently off topic. (I’m not sure what the adjustment of certain EPA regulations under Bush has to do with Gore’s attempted theft of Florida 2000, yet someone tried to bring it up.)
I wish the professors would figure this out. It’d be nice to be able to use current examples, but it’s clear that there are a lot of law students here who aren’t grown ups. If we could keep the real life examples and cases pre-2000 we’d probably be able to cover a lot more.

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The Packers looked pretty good* today. Three way tie for the NFC North and the Bears aren’t one of the teams. What’s up with that?

*Assuming every team this season will hand them 13 points.

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