Mid-Day Musings

Nice day around these parts, although it’s deeply winter just to our north.  Lots of snow and ice in the upper midwest.  Good luck, family and friends.  But, you know how to deal with it.  I can safely say “better you, than I”.

We have football to think about around these parts.  Wondering who’s gonna be coaching the Arkansas Razorbacks, with little movement, it seems, on the Tommy Tuberville reports. Of course, all that can change in a millisecond. SEC Championship game is this afternoon and (bigger around our house) Missouri plays Oklahoma for the Big 12 Championship this evening.  Courso picked Mizzou on ESPN’s GameDay this morning, putting on the tiger head and giving the crowd in San Antonio a boost.  So, I’ll be parked in front of the TV, wondering how we ever watched sports without HDTV.

How about a little political game of catchup…

Giuliani’s Top 10 ‘Shag Fund’ excuses — and why they’re wrong

So, after a very tough week, are things getting better or worse for everyone’s least-favorite scandal-plagued presidential candidate? Take a wild guess. In the fall of 2001, city cops chauffeured Rudy Giuliani’s then-mistress, Judith Nathan, to her parents’ Pennsylvania home 130 miles away on the taxpayers’ dime. Records show that city cops refueled at an ExxonMobil station [...]