What is this world coming to?

Now that is what I want my mayor fighting for in these tough economic time - a free luxury box and food for folks who don’t need free access to a game or meatball and chicken wings gratis.

Jason - I was using ‘mayor’ to refer to the office as I am well aware that most of what occurs in the office is done by the minions as is the case with most office holders (e.g. governors, mayors, senators).  The use of minions is necessary as they are expendable when the public finds out about such shannigans - especially if it is truly something Hizzonor (or Heronor) wanted to happen. 

I believe that such office holders go through several classes to prepare themselve for rigors of the office and include: Covering Your Ass - The Basics; The Physics of the Fallguy; The Art of Scapegoating; and my personal favorite - How to Apply Teflon with Bill Clinton as the guest lecturer.

When it first began, opera was popular entertainment, just like Shakespeare’s plays. You had your aristocratic aesthetes and your groundlings and everyone in between. Baseball is approaching the social level of modern opera going - it’s thought of as being reserved for a certain class of person, though some provision is made for the poor groundlings. It’s an ostentatious act of conspicuous consumption. I’m thinking of becoming an opera fan - it’s cheaper, the drunks are politer, and if some of the works go on way too long, hey, that’s just like baseball too.

Chris—I was pumped, but not THAT pumped.  I wrote it last night and scheduled it to go live ahead of time. When I do that, I prefer for things to go live at 5:30AM, which is when I usually wake up.  I was of the impression that THT’s web publisher was set to Central time, however, and overthought things. I was wrong.

For future reference, anything that ever goes up after 5:30 is me doin’ it live.  If it’s between, say, 1AM and 5:30, it’s usually written the night before.

Craig - If you are referring to the Lee Majors tv series then I think you mean Heather Thomas and she was not what I was referencing.  I was thinking more of the downward career trajectories said fall guys experience and how if done properly one can control the standard deviations away from “The Man” they land.

Jason - Appreciate the compliment and unfortunately I should have copyrighted the phrase before I put it out there as it could be a best seller if done right - I’m thinking The Daily Show/Colbert style would work well.  Obviously it is not all about the money with me.

After a quick google search Markie Post was on The Fall Guy, my memory of her began with Night Court but apparently she was revealing her acting talents before that. 

In many ways I am glad that I did not recall that accurately as maybe not all pieces of useless trivia lodged itself into my brain and there is may be some space left for slightly more important things.