Underbloggery
Stanford is leading Oregon by 7 points at halftime. Sweeeeeet.
Well, vacation was amazing. I loved the long Labor Day weekend in and around Seattle, including a ferry ride to Bremerton, Pike Place, the Space Needle, and catching up with lots of folks. Then five wonderful days in Denver! Hiking, cooking, and relaxing were the order of the day. It's always rough to start back to work after such an awesome break.
Of course, I'm taking off again in a couple weeks for the Portland Marathon, with an accompanying week off. I'm in that fun stage of training, when the running tapers off before race day.
Lots and lots going on in the world. Five members of the Makah Tribe killed a grey whale, in a hunt that was sanctioned by neither the Tribe nor the federal government--not surprising, given the ridiculous Ninth Circuit Court ruling in Anderson v. Evans. The U.S. Senate, instead of voting to end the war, or, more realistically, cutting off funding for the war and de facto ending it, wasted valuable time voting on a resolution to condemn a MoveOn.org ad questioning Gen. Petraeus's honesty (they never bothered to swear in the good general when he testified, so it's not perjury). And Donald Rumsfeld is coming to Stanford to be a visiting Hoover Fellow--I can see why people are upset, but that's not something that can easily be stopped. Anyway, I don't see Rummy hanging out in the Quad or playing ultimate in the Oval. They had Edward Teller and Edwin Meese, so what's one more crazy Republican?
Alaska politics continues to be fun to watch. I still think it will take a LOT to unseat Ted Stevens or Don Young next year.
Well, vacation was amazing. I loved the long Labor Day weekend in and around Seattle, including a ferry ride to Bremerton, Pike Place, the Space Needle, and catching up with lots of folks. Then five wonderful days in Denver! Hiking, cooking, and relaxing were the order of the day. It's always rough to start back to work after such an awesome break.
Of course, I'm taking off again in a couple weeks for the Portland Marathon, with an accompanying week off. I'm in that fun stage of training, when the running tapers off before race day.
Lots and lots going on in the world. Five members of the Makah Tribe killed a grey whale, in a hunt that was sanctioned by neither the Tribe nor the federal government--not surprising, given the ridiculous Ninth Circuit Court ruling in Anderson v. Evans. The U.S. Senate, instead of voting to end the war, or, more realistically, cutting off funding for the war and de facto ending it, wasted valuable time voting on a resolution to condemn a MoveOn.org ad questioning Gen. Petraeus's honesty (they never bothered to swear in the good general when he testified, so it's not perjury). And Donald Rumsfeld is coming to Stanford to be a visiting Hoover Fellow--I can see why people are upset, but that's not something that can easily be stopped. Anyway, I don't see Rummy hanging out in the Quad or playing ultimate in the Oval. They had Edward Teller and Edwin Meese, so what's one more crazy Republican?
Alaska politics continues to be fun to watch. I still think it will take a LOT to unseat Ted Stevens or Don Young next year.
posted by Country Lawyer @ 19:53
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