Macho Men

Burly testosterone-fueled specimens batting a ball around in the water doesn't seem like a competitive sport for the virile---not until they put on their bonnets complete with that little bow tied under the chin.  Really?

"Quote me."

"You don't interpret a penalty to be a pig.  It can't be a pig."  Justice Scalia on the Obama health mandate.  "What can he (Obama) do to me?  ...We have life tenure."    (Scalia  says he  hasn't retired because he knows his wife doesn't want him around the house.)

Walter Mitty-ing

If those six guys with the mops from the volleyball court would come to my house, the entire house would be clean in no time flat.  And it would be fun to watch.

Correction, Political and otherwise

8 Planets :   Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

6 Days of the Week:  Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Well,

...there's a change in the weather. There's a change in the sea. 

AGT Musings

All of the semifinalists on tonight's show were men; I guess the girls don't get the votes. I read the rumor that Sharon Osborne is leaving the show, and I wonder if it's related to her seemingly premature and spontaneous voicing of the judge's wild card selection, the male cloggers.  It doesn't seem she would constitute the voice of the panel, but who knows---she just appeared to blurt it out, though.  I note that the 2 "comedians" on the panel voted for the mind-reader, which I thought was a so-so act, but better than that comedian contestant they put through last week---he was uncomfortable and unfunny, but still better than the week before that's selection of the kid wearing the yarmulke who sang through his nose.  And as for the dog act, I knew they weren't rescue dogs, the poor animals looked unhappy, and I've seen almost the same act at the Schaghticoke Fair decades ago.  (I think it's very bad for a dog's spine to do backflips.  Somebody call PETA!

Right on, Tim!

I'm so lacking  in the power of persuasion that I'm pretty sure that I'd be unable to get more than 19, not to mention 21,  people to walk barefooted on burning coals and scorch the pads right off their feet.   Well, maybe if they hadn't noticed the first 18 who were writhing on the ground in pain....