RIP, John Henry
The end of the track for a great horse:
John Henry, a true superstar of the racing world, has died at the age of 32. The venerable gelding, winner of 39 of his 83 races and twice North American Horse of the Year, was put down at the Kentucky Horse Park, his retirement home since 1985.
Thirty-two is a tremendous age for a horse, the equivalent of something like 110 in human years. Those closest to him knew the end was near; he had been suffering intermittently from kidney failure and his typical uncertain temper had been mellowing. “John had always been known for his biting and kicking,” said Cathy Roby, barn manager at the establishment’s Hall of Champions. “But he had gotten to the point where he wasn’t really trying, He wasn’t John any more. He was ready to go.”
There is something about the name John Henry that I have always loved, and should I ever get a dog, I will name him John Henry.
Congrats Al
Michelle Malkin’s head go ‘splodey.
Norway—Former Vice President Al Gore says he’s “deeply honored” to be the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Gore — who is in the Bay Area this morning — has been named the winner of the prize for his efforts in the fight against global warming.
He’s sharing the honor with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Gore says he will be donating the proceeds from the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection. The group is a bipartisan non-profit organization working on the climate crisis.
He’s expected to be in Palo Alto today to meet with the group.
Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Academy Award this year for best documentary.
Go ahead and try not running for president, you coy prong. We’ll nominate you anyway.
***Critical Update***
I had about the same reaction as the Commissar – I want Al’s desk.
Don’t need the papers, though. I already have those.
Bonus question – is Al using Mac or PC? The Apple laptops that he used in the movie suggest Mac, so that’s what I will guess. These questions are important, people.
Paging Cypress Hill
If you thought the Frost affair this week was interesting, wait until this goes down:
Will Al Gore add a Nobel Peace Prize to his Oscar and Emmy honors?
Film and TV projects associated with Al Gore have won two Oscars and an Emmy award.
“An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary featuring the former vice president captured two Academy Awards in February. The film focuses on Gore and his worldwide travels to educate the public about the severity of global warming.
Last month Gore picked up an Emmy — the highest award in television — for “Current TV,” which he co-created. The show describes itself as a global television network that gives its viewers the opportunity to create and influence its programming.
On Friday, Gore finds out if he’s the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
I still haven’t seen the damned movie, and still don’t care much for Gore (at this point, were I beamed back in time, I sure as hell would vote for him), but I am sure looking forward to the collective freak-out if he wins. There is the distinct possibility that the MRC, newsbusters, and Michelle Malkin may implode, so I would warn everyone to ‘get tha sawed off Glock and tha rest of tha gats.’
The Highlight of Yesterday’s Debate
Since we are apparently in a YouTube kind of mood today, the highlight of the Republican debate yesterday:
One of my favorite all time movies is a flick many of you may have seen, Breaking Away, and every time I see this clip of Ron Paul yelling about lawyers reminds me of the scene in which Paul Dooley (a WV native) is yelling “REFUND?! REFUND!?”
In case you are curious- Airplane and Harold and Maude are also favorites.
The One and Only OJ Post
Here is the one post we will spend on this stupid, disgusting, fool of a man.
1.) I don’t know exactly what he did, but it certainly seems like prosecutors are overcharging him for shits and giggles. Ten felony counts for barging into a hotel room seems (armed robbery for stealing a baseball cap?), well excessive. If you want to look at the problems with our criminal justice system, I would start there. The media is dutifully reporting that this sort of charging is “standard practice,” and that is confirmed by my personal experiences working in a probation office years ago.
2.) OJ Simpson, along with being a double murderer, is the stupidest son-of-a-bitch to ever walk the earth.
3.) It infuriates me that thousands of man hours are going to be spent investigating this jackass, when he should be in jail in California.
4.) There is NO chance he will ever be tried in front of an impartial jury. Ever.
5.) The media coverage is already awful. Right-wingers like to whinge that the liberals want another Viet nam, allow me to whinge that the media seems to want another OJ Trial. The stupid bastard gave them one.
There. No more talk about OJ.
RIP, Madeleine L’Engle
Names from my youth are dropping like flies:
Madeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88.
Madeleine L’Engle at home in New York in 2001.
Her death, of natural causes, was announced today by her publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Ms. L’Engle (pronounced LENG-el) was best known for her children’s classic, “A Wrinkle in Time,” which won the John Newbery Award as the best children’s book of 1963. By 2004, it had sold more than 6 million copies, was in its 67th printing and was still selling 15,000 copies a year.
My mother used to teach adolescent literature, and I was a willing test market. You name it, I read it as a child.