Back on duty
Let's see... what did I miss last week?-Kim Kardashian got married on August 20th. The couple-- Kim and the NBA's Kris Humphries-- apparently found a way to pay for a $5 million wedding and even make millions of dollars through sponsorships, and television and photo rights. I can't say I was surprised to hear that Kim was able to make money on the back end.
-In an important investigative piece, the LA Times reported that the Department of Homeland Security is spending $75 billion every year on national protections that include a "Zodiac boat" with side-scan sonar for 22-mile-long Lake McConaughy in Keith County, Nebraska.
Says Ohio State University professor John Mueller: "The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It's basically the same number of people who die drowning in the bathtub each year."
-Iowa Governor Terry Branstad never said that gays are subhuman. He simply said that they don't deserve the same rights as the rest of us.
-The reason I was gone last week was that I spent a week of vacation in St. Louis going to ballgames and seeing the sights. The Cardinals lost the first three games, then won two. I rode the metro train a lot, and saw much of Forest Park and the Central West End especially. Forest Park is as much a civic treasure in St. Louis as the Arch. Within it you have a world class art museum, the St. Louis Zoo, the Science Center, the Muny outdoor theater, the underrated Missouri History Museum, lakes, trails, a golf course, a tennis club, the Jewel Box greenhouse, the Boathouse restaurant, the pavilion from the 1904 World's Fair, and over a thousand acres of green space. I saw and did many things during the week, yet I'll forever remember this trip for having been there the night that the Cardinals' $120 million outfielder, Matt Holliday, left a one-run game in the 8th inning because a moth flew in his ear.
posted by CM @ 3:16 PM
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