Another installment of notes
From Hitchhiker's Guide:
This will be my last political post for a long time. Just replace Zaphod with George H.W. Bush and you get the idea about what I think is going on these days.
** We're approaching the end of the high school football season here. We have four teams in the playoffs, not counting a fifth that lost Tuesday night, and the possibility of having all four lose before Sunday is very possible. But knowing how things have worked around here, at least two or three will move on, maybe all four, extending the season one more week.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, now, but for some reason, I'm beginning to feel very burned out with football. The game is great, don't get me wrong, but I can't think of a time where I've watched more of it - live and on television - than this fall. I even got to do my first game on the radio last week, calling the color on the Valley-North Beach game last Thursday. It was a classic game and I did pretty well, according to several people who heard the broadcast.
But I am getting tired. Christmas vacation can't come soon enough.
** I haven't had a lot to say lately, so I apologize for not posting or writing here. My head is a mess right now and I'm working on getting it right. And I'll stop apologizing, too. Saying it too many times loses its effect.
(c) R. Burns
The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he weilds no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to weild power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had... Very very few people realize that the President and the Government have virtually no power at all, and of those few people only six know whence ultimate political power is weilded.
This will be my last political post for a long time. Just replace Zaphod with George H.W. Bush and you get the idea about what I think is going on these days.
** We're approaching the end of the high school football season here. We have four teams in the playoffs, not counting a fifth that lost Tuesday night, and the possibility of having all four lose before Sunday is very possible. But knowing how things have worked around here, at least two or three will move on, maybe all four, extending the season one more week.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, now, but for some reason, I'm beginning to feel very burned out with football. The game is great, don't get me wrong, but I can't think of a time where I've watched more of it - live and on television - than this fall. I even got to do my first game on the radio last week, calling the color on the Valley-North Beach game last Thursday. It was a classic game and I did pretty well, according to several people who heard the broadcast.
But I am getting tired. Christmas vacation can't come soon enough.
** I haven't had a lot to say lately, so I apologize for not posting or writing here. My head is a mess right now and I'm working on getting it right. And I'll stop apologizing, too. Saying it too many times loses its effect.
(c) R. Burns
posted by R. Burns at 11/10/2004 01:54:00 PM
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