Is there something in the aether that has made so many humanbeins have a strange day today? Iranian college students are signing up to be suicide bombers. The drivers at the Daytona 500 spent most of the race crashing into one another. The ice dancers at the Olympics were falling down all over the place. American speed skaters Davis and Hedrick are feuding with one another. Bodie got disqualified again yesterday. The ground in DC around the Jefferson Memorial is overrun with Canada geese that are ripping up the grass. (But the Italian cross country ski team, under the leadership of Zorro, won the gold in an exciting race, so something successful actually happened at Turin.) So far tonight in the ice dancing the Russian and American dancers were the only ones not to fall down. The bird flu is thought to have reached England. If they have to kill all their chickens it will a replay of a few years ago when the Brits had to kill all their cattle in a hoof and mouth disease epidemic.
The news and sports is all I have to report tonight. I didn't do anything personal that was interesting. Tomorrow is Presidents' Day, and we have the day off from work, but I have no idea how to celebrate the day. Which president should I select to honor? I like Gerald Ford because he was a fresh spirit after Nixon's dismal aura. JFK was the prez through my high school years, but I have developed some doubts as to his accomplishments. Kennedy's essence was that he was a breathe of fresh air by being fairly Young. Ike had been old, and most of the people in the 50s we were supposed to admire were old; Albert Schweitzer, Adlai Stevenson, Bernard Baruch, Harry Truman, Helen Keller, Eleanor R., Winston Churchill, et al.
This is not a very lengthy blog tonight. What has been going on somewhere else in the world is more interesting than what I have been doing today. You all take care. Di di mau!
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