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    I’ve had nothing to say for a week now. Considering the circumstances, my kind of input seems completely inappropriate. If you’ve been watching the news these last few days, you know what we’ve been thinking about.

    That about sums it up.

  • It has to start somewhere

    Peer pressure strikes again. If you felt reality shift around you this morning, it may be my fault. You see, for the first time in my adult life I have gambled away some of my hard earned money. A group of my coworkers did what three days in Sin City could not, they convinced me to put some money where the odd’s aren’t. I put some money towards Florida’s voluntary tax, a.k.a.: “The Florida Lottery.”

    Boy do I feel silly.

    The next thing you know, I’ll be on a show on ESPN2 that comes on after 3 a.m. It’ll be a reality show about a group of gambling neophytes who get schooled at poker by smug “Pro’s.” I’ll get my ass handed to me by a guy with a toupee and an un-tucked, suspended Oxford twisting in the breeze.

    Yeah, that’s just how it will happen.

  • Fox News versus complete obscurity

    Picture Uncle Rupert shaking in his kangaroo skin boots. What can I say, he’s afraid of me.

    Personally, I think he’s one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse… but that’s just me.

    Well, now that we’ve gotten the pleasantries out of the way, I’ll get to what I wanted to say today. In my humble opinion, the FNN is generally full of crap. You might think that’s a funny thing to say, coming from the glass house, but I never claimed to be a professional.

    The reason I brought it up is my father-in-law said something that really stuck in my craw. “John, did you know that the courts have banned the words ‘under God’ in school, and kids aren’t allowed to say The Pledge of Allegiance in public school anymore?”

    “Everywhere?” I asked rhetorically (expecting an answer in the negative). You see, I knew there was ONE successful court challenge in California, but the ruling was over-turned on appeal. Therefore, to say “the pledge has been banned in public schools” is at best misleading. But then, that’s an FNN chef’s special.

    Getting back to my conversation with my father-in-law, he replied – “Yes. Can you believe it?”

    “No Joe, I can’t. Have you been watching Fox News again?”

    It turns out he has. I immediately called Beth into the room. “Beth, do you say the Pledge of Allegiance in school every morning?”

    ”Yes.”

    “Could you say it for me?”

    It turns out she could – but wouldn’t… not without a five minute negotiation. As you would expect, I was right – God is alive and well in our public schools (would I be writing this if I was wrong?). Yes, it turns out the Godless Liberal courts haven’t bussed in Satan, so your children are safe in their public school (no matter what Brit Hume says).