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December 14, 2008 archive
Dec 14 2008
Late Night Karaoke
Dec 14 2008
Musical Chairs
That old game, I played it in grade school. A circle of chairs, say 10 chairs, for 11 people.
And the music starts, and we all walk in a circle around the chairs. Until the music stops. Then we dash about to sit on one of the chairs and thereby claim it. We can sit! We have a chair! Ha!
There’s one person left standing. They do not get a chair and are out of the game.
This goes on, subtracting a chair each time, until there is one chair left. As the music starts, two people walk in a circle around the chair and when the music stops, well, we have a winner! Someone gets the chair! And all the rest are left out.
It’s a pretty strange game, come to think of it. Though if I recall, it was kind of fun, too.
Dec 14 2008
“Are We Chumps?”, “You Betcha”
“What I’m learning is that the highest officials in our land have proven to be less than capable in making decisions that affect the lives of so many Americans, that we’ve seen about faces, changes of strategy, no clear coherent strategy for fixing a world-shattering crisis.”
Emma Coleman Jordan
On Bill Moyers Journal
Friday, December 12, 2008
Emma Coleman Jordan is a Georgetown University legal and finance scholar. She taught for twelve years at the University of California, Davis.
She began her teaching career at Stanford Law School as a teaching fellow. She has been active in the financial services field, serving as chair of the Financial Institutions Committee of the California State Bar, drafter of the statute to regulate bank check holding practices, and co-counsel in class actions challenging bank stop-payment fee charges.
Her article, “Ending the Floating Check Game” (1985), grew out of this involvement. She organized the Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services section of the Association of American Law Schools.
Dec 14 2008
Take a Knee and Digital TeeVee
I was playing with my grandson tonight. He is two and even though he is still talking in his own made up language we seem to understand each other completely. He had a plastic sword and I was going to dub him a Knight by tapping each of his shoulders. He didn’t understand but when I assumed the position by getting down on one knee he did the same thing. He did so and then I anointed him with the full status of Knight of the Realm. He then relapsed into contemporary TeeVee land and proceeded to smite me with said very same sword. I then elevated myself to the status of wizard and everybody knows mere swords can not touch a wizard.
But personal diversions aside I call your attention to the coming Satanic event billed as the “wonderous” transition to digital TeeVee.
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