The Friday Eudemon
Groggy morning. The drinking club held its biggest fundraiser of the year last night. I went out early to sit on the deck, quaff a tall one, and enjoy a 68-degree day while overlooking the lake. Fortunately, I didn't stay late, but I'm still paying a small price this morning for jumping the drinking gun.
What happened to Alec Baldwin? I thought he was leaving for Canada after the 2004 elections. Guess he decided to stick around and cause problems:
Baldwin was stopped yesterday by officers who spotted him driving a white Yukon reported stolen in neighboring Orange County. They booked him for investigation of grand theft auto, with bond set at 20-thousand dollars.
Authorities in Orange County say the S-U-V belongs to a Baldwin acquaintance but that he didn't have permission to take it.
Daniel Baldwin was in the news in July when he crashed a rental into two parked cars after being clocked doing more than 80 miles-an-hour in L-A traffic.
Several months earlier, he was arrested for investigation of cocaine possession.
Daggone Republicans drove him to it, no doubt. With the Dems in ascendancy, maybe he'll get straightened out.
Massachusetts lawmakers have tabled a petition to put gay marriage to a vote, thereby virtually killing the possibility of having it on the ballot in 2008. Unbelievable. These people simply want to cram gay marriage down our throats without us having the right to protest or vote. And it's not just gay marriage: Just ask the Houston landscaping company that's been vilified for not accepting a gay couple as a customer. Gays want to force society to accept them. In that, they stomp on everyone else's freedom, but they don't see it that way. They just, you know, want their way (and sodomy).
Related: In case you missed it, Pope Benedict XVI is now a fundamentalist: "Gay leaders on Thursday canceled a parade in Jerusalem amid security concerns and pressure from fundamentalist religious leaders who called such a public display in the holy city offensive."
Rutgers beat Louisville last night. That's wild. The BCS system is going haywire now. The "brains" behind the BCS swore that smaller schools would get fair consideration. Now Rutgers, playing in a conference (the Big East) that, football-wise, is a notch below the big boys (SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12, PAC), has done everything it could to show it deserves a shot at the championship, but it won't happen. The BCS stinks, but the NCAA won't admit it. They like the controversy because it increases interest. They've also built the BCS into a five-game marketing bonanza (making it to one of the five BCS games is a coup; kinda like making it to the NCAA basketball tournament). If it's making money, they won't fix it, no matter how unjust.
Brews You Can Use
The first good news I've ever heard in connection with the EU: Germany will block the European Union proposal to raise tax rates on alcohol because it does not want to further burden its beer drinkers, and it has the support of several other countries.
Great idea of an entrepreneur: Beer-themed Christmas ornaments. If you use current brands ("The Pabst Bulb"), you'd have trademark issues, but if you could find a handful of defunct beers (are they still making Black Label? How about Falstaff or Red White and Blue?), you could use them on the bulbs.
Need Christmas beer ideas? Go here. For the record: I've never been a drinker on Christmas. I have a glass of wine or two on Christmas Eve to celebrate the joyous event, but there's something incongruous about risking inebriation while celebrating our Savior's birth.
Enjoy your weekend.
