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Category: Angst
I am glad Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post book critic, stepped up and made the case that Catcher In The Rye sucks. I don’t know if Jonathan Yardley knows his stuff or not, but I hate Catcher In The Rye, and I’m glad to be seconded.
Actually I am mildly happy about this one
Yes, yes, well done, Boston! Now it’s a mere eighteen hours until you can pull out some more of the skillsmanship you displayed in the sixth inning, when you and the baseball appeared to repel each other, like the poles of a magnet–er, that is, like the same poles… of… of two… different magnets. Or maybe you’ll just wake up–later today–and remember that whoops! You just killed every damn pitcher you have!
Update 1210 hrs: “Repel each other, like the poles of a magnet.” Gah. I’m fired.
I only post about baseball when I’m angry at it
19 runs in one game. In the postseason.
Aww man. A job at Blizzard has been a dream of mine for years, and now, suddenly, it’s really not anymore.
Kentucky is entering about Year 18 of an ever-cascading educational disaster. The current horrible mistake is the proposed health plan for teachers, which (under a typical family plan) would have employees pay the highest state-insurance premium in the country, with the state making the next-to-lowest contribution. The idea was that a 3% raise would help cover the cost, but that means $1050 before taxes for the average teacher. The premiums alone for that family health plan would exhaust that in two months.
I’ve been half-following the story as it develops, because I went to a Kentucky public high school and I’m interested by the state’s boundless inventiveness as it races to achieve the worst school quality in the country (right behind you, Alabama!). There will very likely be a statewide (and illegal) educator strike on October 27th. Tonight I saw some TV news coverage of a teachers’ union protest at Waterfront Park; after a couple of crowd shots, they pulled in close on one woman, who held a posterboard sign stating that
KENTUCKY IS
BECOMING
EMBARRASING!
Some truths are self-evident.
Regarding the presidential debate
“It’s like a stuttering match.”