A short eudemon this morning. My wife and I took the five oldest kids to Night at the Museum last night, so I got to bed later than usual and therefore have less time for blogging this morning (it's amazing how bumps in the schedule have a domino effect on time). I'd give the movie a 5 overall, but a 7 for viewability with children. The humor has an adult (but not off-color) tilt, but it's still meant for children. Refreshing bonus: there's no flatulence and no sassy children.
Notre Dame got thumped in a major bowl last night. It's the third time in the past seven years that this has happened (though last year's Fiesta Bowl loss wasn't a thumping; it was jost a solid loss, like UM's loss to USC on Monday). ND has a great following nationwide and they draw well on TV, so they get the nod to major bowl games even though they don't belong there. It's not fair to other programs, but it keeps happening. Just one of the many reasons college football is frustrating.
The biggest college football news: there's no college football game tonight, thereby breaking a nine-day streak.
Looking for yet another reason to avoid extra-marital relations? New research supports growing concerns that herpes plays a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. Unfortunately, I expect teenagers and twenty-somethings fear Alzheimer's about as much as they fear Communists, so this revelations won't stem the penis tide much.
I now apologize for complaining about the piano-playing, crotch-sniffing dog incident at my in-laws. Things could be a lot worse: Outraged in-laws slashed the nose and ears of a Pakistani college student who married a woman without the consent of her higher-caste family, and then fractured his legs with blows from an ax, police and the victim said.
I find this mildly amusing: "Britons who struggle with the French language are being offered lessons in Gallic gestures instead." How does one sign "You're not French, so you suck" and "Deodorant is for low-life clean people"?
