A little bit more politics and then back to contracts…
November 5th, 2008
Belief that I would be able to concentrate on my studies without distraction today was shattered when I found myself reading a few NY Times stories.
As Shea said in the comments, sports metaphors are often obnoxious, and yet I cannot help that when I was reading the paper today, I found myself thinking of one. The article mentioned the possibility of terror attacks during the transition, because God knows we can’t go a day in the media without raising that specter. And I started thinking that with our forced so over committed, how could a president express that we needed to pay less and not more attention to the perpetrators of a terror attack, so that we could get to the business of governing that they had hoped to interrupt. The first thing that came to mind? Shaking the tackle. It’s inescapable. I don’t even really watch football.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Smoke ‘em out.
Speaking of which, I’d like to mention my favorite part of the film “W”, which we recently saw: There are numerous shots of W discussing matters of great importance while mashing half a sandwich at a time into his mouth. While not impressed by his presidency, I have to admit, if this pastiche of sandwich eating was based on historical accounts of W’s actual eating habits, I’m impressed with the verve the man had for sandwiches.
November 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Oh man. The first thing that I want to know about that was crust on or off. But then I realized that what I’d really like is a Murakami short story about Bush eating sandwiches. Murakami’s everyman narrator watching him, getting a sort of satisfaction from the determined order with which this man eats sandwiches.
I may have to see that film. I wonder if it made any of the second run theaters around here.