Cleaning out the cupboard 6/13/07
A mix of stuff tonight:---
The Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA are one game away from going down to defeat in the league finals. There would have been no small celebration on the banks of Lake Erie if the Cavs had managed to pull it out. Their town hasn't enjoyed a championship in a major team sport since the Browns won the 1964 NFL Title. Baseball's Indians (Are they seriously still the Indians?) have gone without a championship every year since 1948. Fox Sports.com's Jeff Gordon (also of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) ranks the 10 most frustrated sports cities.
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I couldn't post last night because I was watching my brand new DVD copy of "An Unreasonable Man," a 2006 biography of Ralph Nader, released just yesterday and purchased by me sight unseen. It is, as I suspected, stupendous. Finally, Ralph and his supporters have been given a forum to defend themselves against the capitulating Democrats who have been frothing at the mouth for seven years over Nader's so-called "political naivete." The film footage of our duopoly's security thugs attempting to keep Nader out of the debate hall in 2000 is priceless. Skip Michael Moore's next movie and watch this one if you want to be inspired by real courage.
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I've decided you can't hate Paris Hilton unless you've ever envied her, and I never have. A true child of privilege has loving, involved parents who teach that monetary wealth will not buy happiness and fulfillment. Drunken driving ravages our society, and Hilton owes a great debt to society, but the pile-on by America's social critics and celebrity enablers turned into overkill long, long ago. Christopher Hitchens maintains a healthy perspective on it all. Scandal is the oxygen of show business. Discuss.
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I'm piggy-backing on blogger Ken Levine once again. Yesterday, he envisioned how "The Sopranos"' finale might have looked different had it aired on network television.
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One of the promising post-Sopranos series to come on HBO is "East Bound and Down," by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, about a retired ballplayer who returns to his hometown and becomes a substitute gym teacher.
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Your favorite baseball player when you're 10 years old is your favorite baseball player for life-- mine is Ozzie Smith. Osborne has been entirely too absent from Busch Stadium the past few years, but an on-line reporter caught up with "The Wizard" recently, asking the pertinent 20 questions. Kind of funny.
posted by CM @ 8:22 PM
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