Misc. 11.19.05

If economic considerations drive young people to shack up before marriage (as many parents like to believe), why don't those young people invite their parents and grandparents to live with them? Multi-generational households save a lot of money, as the Mexican population in my small town is proving.

From Associated Press: "An ancient weapon that was apparently used as early as prehistoric times to slay woolly mammoths may soon be added to the arsenals of Pennsylvania hunters. The state Game Commission is drafting proposed regulations to allow hunters to use the atlatl, a small wooden device that propels a six-foot dart as fast as 80 mph." Dang it, I thought they were going to allow rocks.

I was feeling strangely optimistic (see first post of today). Now I'm feeling understandably nauseous. OSU 25, UM 21.

I was talking with my Dad during the UM/OSU game. He told me about working as controller for a Detroit-area newspaper back in the mid-1960s. The newspaper was looking to undertake a merger with a variety of other media outlets, including a chain of country radio stations in the near South. During a meeting in West Virginia, my Dad told one of the radio station officers that Johnny Cash was a major talent, but that drugs had destroyed him. The officer responded, "Maybe, but he has hooked up with June Carter and it looks she really straightened him out."

My son Michael, the first grader, had to practice his "z's." He had to fill a whole line with them. Always looking for short-cuts, he presented the following: zzzzzzzzzz__________________.