OH THOSE FUNNY ENGINEERS AT GOOGLE

There must be too many engineers with time on their hands out there in Silicon Valley.  At least once a month, they must have a meeting to decide how to change the pages that access either the Internet or my email.  Or they restructure the email pages themselves.  Oh what fun--I mean beside getting to play ping pong, dressing as shabbily as me, and eating peanut m and m's all day.  The height of hilarity--kicking a few to the curb would not hurt.

Many many ends and odds.  Here goes:

--From the Globe:  "Man accused of driving drunk on mower".  Well of course, we wouldn't want him driving his car while drunk.  And besides, he was just going to the corner to buy more beer. Makes sense to me and obviously it was worthy of the Globe.
--From the Globe:  "Quake devastates Filipino churches".  Clearly pandering to the majority of its readers, this headline actually skips over the fact that lots of folks died in the earthquake which was not limited to houses of worships of any sort.
--On a sweatshirt:  "JMU/LAX".  Now I know what that stands for--do any of you?  James Madison University Lacrosse.  Rip it off, dude.  No one knows about your school let alone the lacrosse team.  If the "M" turned into an "H", we could then bow down to the gods of Johns Hopkins Lacrosse--usually the best college team.  But this dumb bunny and his sweatshirt shold be in the gutter along with the Google engineers.
--Boehner (he who has a perpetual tan) and Cantor (he who is a member of my tribe) have both shut up for awhile ever since they could not corral their own wacky conservative House colleagues.  But, trust me, they will rear their ugly heads again.  Speaking of those wild and crazy Republicans, they are now blocking Obama nominees.  They just hate him, don't they?  And it is that barely intelligible Lindsey Graham with his wicked drawl leading this charge.
--Some terrific articles:  A piece in the New Yorker by Jon Lee Anderson who is a favorite of mine.  About a mystery writer from Havana but really about culture and the arts in Cuba and how the artists have to anticipate what the regime will tolerate.  An article about the Grambling fiasco by George Dohrmann in Sports Illustrated about its football team but really about athletics at the Historically Black Universities and how they have been impacted both by budget cuts and the recruitment of the best African American athletes to the really big, formerly all white, southern universities. Last, a book by Jonathan Alter about how Obama won the election.  Two points about this--first Alter argues the race was over by Labor Day and, second, Valerie Jeffries is the power behind the throne in that White house.
--Saw Warren Buffet on TV the other day.  If he is not one of the finest men in America, then I am not sure who is unless it is me.
--I have no words to describe the computer glitches related to Obamacare.  Just on the cusp of having the whole thing culturally accepted and then this.  Yikes what a fuck up.
--The female sculptor for the Bill Russell statue is barely 5 feet tall and had to stand on chairs and ladders to get to the top of his head.  Cannot imagine how strong she is.
--Can't wait for open tolling. It means I will never have to get an EZ pass because they will bill me.  Oh those google guys.  Came full circle, huh.

NEWSFLASH:  There are now 90 of you and I am shvitzing to break 100.  Whoever gets me over the top gets a special prize.

SPORTS TALK
--I have two good things to say about the red flops.  Ortiz is some fucking hitter.  Kudos to the fans for not copying those in other cities waving hankies like fools. Sorry but John Lackey is still an asshole.
--Michigan can only win if they score 60 points a game because for some reason their defense sucks.
--Brady is hurt and this Patriot subterfuge about injuries is both boring and pathetic.  But having the Gronkster back surely helps.
--One of my favorite jockeys is Rosie (the queen of Corona) Napravnik.  She has a few mounts this weekend in the Breeders Cup which is great horse racing but I refuse to be on it.  Too difficult and too many horses.

Sayonara and dont forget the contest.