View From the Bushes

I was reading a co-worker's blog earlier today and it was amazingly good. Of course, he really gets into the nitty-gritty, detailing every fight he has with his soon-to-be ex-wife, his deepest fears, etc. Since this blog started out as a "business blog," I've been rather reluctant to get that personal. My niche is whining with occasional commentary on interesting events in the news. Course that's a fairly overcrowded space, so maybe I should try and put in more personal detail. We'll have to see.

In Tour de France news, Armstrong initially refused to don the yellow jersey out of respect for Zabriskie. I guess there was some precendent for the move, but the race stewards threatened him with heavy sanctions if he didn't. Overall I think that's a pretty classy move. McEwen finally found his form and won the stage, though by coming in second, Boonen is still doing very well in the green jersey competition. I am curious who's going to try for King of the Mountain this year. It's obviously far too early to tell.

I was quite suprised during the convention when I heard that Sandra Day O'Connor was retiring, primarily because I expected that Rehnquist would be the one to go at the end of this session. The first thing that came to mind was an episode of the West Wing, where they had two vacancies: the chief justice and one other. After discovering that the only candidates they could get both parties to agree on were moderate lightweights with the intelligence of cabbage, they decided to nominate one ultra-liberal and one ultra-conservative. This made everyone happy and allowed them to pick some great judicial thinkers, rather than someone who's never even expressed an opinion. There are worse ideas. Like the idea of nominating Ann Coulter.

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