So we're thinking this may be alberto gonzales' last week or so, right? Listening to some of the testimony (and the questions from senators on both sides of the aisle) i had to think a little of rats fleeing a sinking ship.
Went to shea stadium with katie on saturday - beautiful day, good game, mets won (it seems i am gradually becoming a part-time mets fan, which feels odd but not unpleasant.) Oliver perez pitched a really good game, which made everybody happy: didn't realize it at the time, but at one point he pitched 20 consecutive strikes. Damned impressive, that.
I found this compilation of the international press reactions to the virginia tech tragedy (courtesy salon.com) to be really interesting. This event has caused me to have a number of discussions about gun laws, gun culture and the second amendment. My own feelings and opinions about the second amendment have sometimes been pretty complicated, a la "why should i be so fervent in my defense of free speech but not in defense of the right to bear arms?" A pretty easy answer to which might come along the lines of "sticks and stones and automatic weapons..." The bottom line of my thinking right now is that it's just really hard to justify how many guns there are in this country, how easy it is to come by them, and how often they are used (about 30 gun deaths per day .) And this may all be facile, but i think this conversation needs to turn up a notch, and why not now?
Red sox swept the yankees - excellent news. Four home runs in a row last night: unbelievable! Sherin had stepped out of the room and thought we were all fucking with her when we started cheering again! Hardly ever happens; first time in red sox history. What can i say? Way cool.
Monday, April 23, 2007
baseball and politics
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wow. thanks for that article. I read this one on salon.com yesterday, and found it particularly of interest, as it intersects higher education (my current work) and art (my life) with this tragedy.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/04/20/creative_writing/index.html?source=rss
oh. and another thing. you need to check out http://mikedaisey.com/
watch the you tube video at the top, read his beautiful response.
and while you're at it, look at the lollapalooza website too. very sad for me, because although bonnaroo is going to be incredible, lllplz has this going for it:
1) great lineup (including YLT)
2) in Grant Park in Chicago!
3) ummm, did I mention Chicago?
unfortunately, it won't happen because:
1) already spending all my dough on bonnaroo
2) that's the ladies' weekend at a spa in wisconsin (i'm going to be so close yet so far!!!)
3) there's NO ditching the ladies' weekend. and no moving it to a rock concert, either.
all right. sorry to take up so much room. xoxoxo
Thanks for the references. That salon article is intense. I'll look at the mike daisey vid at home, maybe tonight.
Lolla's lineup is pretty hot, but i think we're making the right choice in bonnarooing it, irrespective of your conflicts.
So, a moment of respect for the folks heading to coachella, which starts on friday...
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