ME
Yes. I am still (again?) sick. This time the manifestation is an infection in the same area where my brown recluse bite was. I am on some rocking antibiotics for the next two weeks and have another doctor's appointment Wednesday. Otherwise I have no news. On the other hand, this has and will happen periodically, and antibiotics have always nipped it in the bud.
AND SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE WANTS OUT…
The New York Times (registration required) reports on a suit filed by the Roman Catholic Church in Atlanta against a group called Capilla de la Fe. Apparently this group intimates to Spanish-speaking parishioners that they are Roman Catholic. They are not. However, they will have a service that uses "strong prayer to destroy witchcraft, demon –possession, nightmares, curses, envy, bad luck or spiritual problems." The funny thing to me is, I meet so many lapsed Catholics it would never occur to me to run a sham Catholic Church and try to get people in.
NOW THAT'S A RIVALRY
CNN-SI reported that the classic Dodgers-Giants rivalry took a deadly turn over the weekend. Some moron Giant fan shot and killed a Dodger fan in the parking lot after the game in Los Angeles. Now, I have experienced the Cub-Cardinal rivalry (in each city), the Bear-Packer rivalry, the Black Hawk-Blues rivalry, and the Illinois-Iowa rivalry (both sports), and I cannot fathom what happened here. Did the Dodger fan mock the Giant fan's choice of Chablis? Did the Giant fan go on a rampage because the frittatas in LA are better than San Francisco? I just can't understand.
BE AFRAID
Well, the Nation's Finest Newspaper actually picked up a useful piece of news this weekend. In a speech to the Columbia University School of Law, Supreme Court Justice Stephan Breyer indicated that it may be necessary to deny terrorism defendants the lawyer of their choice, since their lawyers could be used to transmit important information to the outside. This is a dramatic example of the powers that be losing their heads after September 11, 2001. If the United States has a reasonable suspicion that a lawyer is doing this, they ought to get a warrant and go after them—just like they do for drug kingpin and mobster lawyers. The only thing worse than a Supreme Court justice losing sight of this is the fact that he praised the Israeli court system for leading the way. Good grief. Are we going to blow up criminal's houses too?
A REMEDY CALLED SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
Getting back to its roots, the Houston Chronicle also grabbed the story that a Chicago judge had dismissed a suit against the group Creed for putting on a terrible show. Now, the fact that these people admit they paid over $56 per person to see CREED should be enough for them to lose. I think instead of a refund and a dismissal, the judge should have treated their pleading as a request for specific performance and forced them to sit through ANOTHER Creed concert. That'd show 'em. Clowns.
THE TROUBLESOME BALTIC
The Baltic Sea is a place where many cultures come together. At minimum, the Swedes, Finns, Russians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Germans, and Danes all share the sea. However, the problem is that these people keep mixing. The Moscow Times is reporting about the problem the EU will have with the ethnic Russians it admits when Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are admitted into the EU. From the Prussians, to the Danes and Swedes, to Peter the Great, to the post war Russians, this area has seen so many peoples come and go. Maybe the EU will be the structure to let them all live and let live.
FINALLY, DO YOU SMELL SOMETHING?
The Chicago Tribune (registration required) reported that a home in Milwaukee was found inhabited solely by 130 (or so) cats and ONE dog, as well as trash and animal feces (to be fair, mostly cat feces) three feet deep. The owner died in 1997, but the owner's adult son has been stopping by and feeding the animals ever since. They believe that the home will need to be razed, since the cats have apparently bred inside the walls. On the positive side, there were no reported rodent sightings…
Yes. I am still (again?) sick. This time the manifestation is an infection in the same area where my brown recluse bite was. I am on some rocking antibiotics for the next two weeks and have another doctor's appointment Wednesday. Otherwise I have no news. On the other hand, this has and will happen periodically, and antibiotics have always nipped it in the bud.
AND SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE WANTS OUT…
The New York Times (registration required) reports on a suit filed by the Roman Catholic Church in Atlanta against a group called Capilla de la Fe. Apparently this group intimates to Spanish-speaking parishioners that they are Roman Catholic. They are not. However, they will have a service that uses "strong prayer to destroy witchcraft, demon –possession, nightmares, curses, envy, bad luck or spiritual problems." The funny thing to me is, I meet so many lapsed Catholics it would never occur to me to run a sham Catholic Church and try to get people in.
NOW THAT'S A RIVALRY
CNN-SI reported that the classic Dodgers-Giants rivalry took a deadly turn over the weekend. Some moron Giant fan shot and killed a Dodger fan in the parking lot after the game in Los Angeles. Now, I have experienced the Cub-Cardinal rivalry (in each city), the Bear-Packer rivalry, the Black Hawk-Blues rivalry, and the Illinois-Iowa rivalry (both sports), and I cannot fathom what happened here. Did the Dodger fan mock the Giant fan's choice of Chablis? Did the Giant fan go on a rampage because the frittatas in LA are better than San Francisco? I just can't understand.
BE AFRAID
Well, the Nation's Finest Newspaper actually picked up a useful piece of news this weekend. In a speech to the Columbia University School of Law, Supreme Court Justice Stephan Breyer indicated that it may be necessary to deny terrorism defendants the lawyer of their choice, since their lawyers could be used to transmit important information to the outside. This is a dramatic example of the powers that be losing their heads after September 11, 2001. If the United States has a reasonable suspicion that a lawyer is doing this, they ought to get a warrant and go after them—just like they do for drug kingpin and mobster lawyers. The only thing worse than a Supreme Court justice losing sight of this is the fact that he praised the Israeli court system for leading the way. Good grief. Are we going to blow up criminal's houses too?
A REMEDY CALLED SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
Getting back to its roots, the Houston Chronicle also grabbed the story that a Chicago judge had dismissed a suit against the group Creed for putting on a terrible show. Now, the fact that these people admit they paid over $56 per person to see CREED should be enough for them to lose. I think instead of a refund and a dismissal, the judge should have treated their pleading as a request for specific performance and forced them to sit through ANOTHER Creed concert. That'd show 'em. Clowns.
THE TROUBLESOME BALTIC
The Baltic Sea is a place where many cultures come together. At minimum, the Swedes, Finns, Russians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Germans, and Danes all share the sea. However, the problem is that these people keep mixing. The Moscow Times is reporting about the problem the EU will have with the ethnic Russians it admits when Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are admitted into the EU. From the Prussians, to the Danes and Swedes, to Peter the Great, to the post war Russians, this area has seen so many peoples come and go. Maybe the EU will be the structure to let them all live and let live.
FINALLY, DO YOU SMELL SOMETHING?
The Chicago Tribune (registration required) reported that a home in Milwaukee was found inhabited solely by 130 (or so) cats and ONE dog, as well as trash and animal feces (to be fair, mostly cat feces) three feet deep. The owner died in 1997, but the owner's adult son has been stopping by and feeding the animals ever since. They believe that the home will need to be razed, since the cats have apparently bred inside the walls. On the positive side, there were no reported rodent sightings…
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