hard hitting journalism

Today the National Archives released Sen. Clinton's schedules while she was first lady. More than 17,000 pages will have journalists combing through the files for days, but it's good to know that major news organizations have their priorities straight, as the first story emerges from the data dump:

Hillary Was in White House on 'Stained Blue Dress' Day:

Hillary Clinton spent the night in the White House on the day her husband had oral sex with Monica Lewinsky, and may have actually been there when it happened, according to records of her schedule released today by the National Archives.

The day after Sen. Obama gives the best political speech of my lifetime, and the media quickly returns to the frivolity of an affair ten years in the past. Pathetic.

pool > soccer

The Champions League is the premier club football tournament in Europe, pitting the best teams from leagues throughout the continent against each other. Several years ago, ESPN bought the rights to air Champions League broadcasts in the U.S. Soccer fans hoped this would improve access to the matches, even if on tape delay, and grow the sport here in the U.S.

Instead, ESPN relegates CL matches to ESPN Classic. Fine. They certainly aren’t helping grow the sport, but that isn’t ESPN’s job (apparently that is to ruin all sports and all sports highlights by backing them with Nickleback songs and editing them such that I pass out disoriented before the conclusion of the segment).
Asking the bartender if she could switch to ESPN Classic, she failed, but offered ESPN 2 as an alternative. Unfortunately with sporting events, you are either watching the match or not. CSI: Miami may be a close substitute for CSI: Darfur (those guys have their hands full), but speed billiards are in no way an acceptable substitute for the highest level of European club football.

Clearly, my folly for an interest in the most popular sport in the world.

painting dc blue

A brief weekend in DC involved painting my sister's kitchen with her friends. Zack, above, struggled keeping paint out of his hair.

Absent long from my house my dreams and projects lie fallow. To help someone else move theirs along is a strong substitute, and the end result was terrific.