View From the Bushes

The Tour, she wakes me. Today was another huge day in the Alps, with some of the biggest climbs coming fairly early in the stage. As a result, OLN started their live coverage at 4:30 in the morning. I've been pretty sleep-deprived recently on top of trying to get over a little cold, so I had decided that there was no way I was going to wake up and watch the stage. Of course 4:30 rolls around and despite my instructions to the contrary, I'm awake. I try my best to fall back asleep, but by 5:00 I realize it's not going to happen. Not that I saw the finish, but a depressing sameness is starting to develop: Lance wins. This is fine, except that I wanted it to be a little closer, and thus far the actual victory race has proved to be kind of boring.

I'm assuming (since it's showing up on all the national outlets) that even my national readers (did you notice what happened to your comment, Wil? ;) ) have heard about Lori Hacking, the jogger who disappeared up one of the local canyons. You've probably also heard about how she and her husband were suppossed to head to NC so that he could attend medical school, and how it turned out that not only had he never applied to the UNC medical school, but that he hadn't even graduated with a bachelor's.

The police keep saying that he's not a suspect, but that seems to be the SOP in these cases. But let's look at this for a minute, the husband has obviously told some real whoppers. He's a week away from being completely found out, and in an alarming but complete coincidence his wife is abducted. Really? I mean I guess there's some chance that the one had nothing whatsoever to do with the other, but the odds of that have to be so low as to be almost non-existent. All I can say is I hope whatever the truth is that she comes home safe, there seems to be to little of that sort of thing anymore.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross