Berck has an interview in Pueblo today at 3:30. Yes, this is the big one.
In other news my brother Ben and his fiancé Amanda are visiting us this week, and we haven’t had a bit of time to blog.
Posts by Jonah
I am Berck's wife. I must use whichever journaling software he chooses. And like it.
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening (Lymerickized)
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
courtesy of badgods.com
There once was a horse-riding chap
Who took a trip in a cold snap
He stopped in the snow
But he soon had to go:
He was miles away from a nap.
We’re back home.
Had a fun…and at times a little too exciting…trip. Maybe Berck will write about it tomorrow.
No, strike that. He’s assigned it to me. We’ll see when I have time to actually write anything!
A War We Just Might Win
Printed by the New York Times? By two analysts from the liberal Brookings Institution?
Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.
It ends with this:
But there is enough good happening on the battlefields of Iraq today that Congress should plan on sustaining the effort at least into 2008.
What is the world coming to!
Heptathlon
Did you know there’s an Olympic event called the “heptathlon”? Well, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Intelligencer?) thinks there is. They printed a piece on my bosses’ son Eli’s teammate Sheila, who very well may make Olympic history by being the first woman to compete in three different sports (she’s already done swimming and triathlon and just had to learn three more for her current forte).
Taormina, 38, finished 11th on Monday in the modern heptathlon (fencing, riding, shooting, swimming and running) at the Pan American Games.
Funny how they only mention five of the sports associated with “heptathlon.” To be fair, they just reprinted an AP article that USA Today also ran with, who should have known better, having printed this article just a few days before.
Both mention Eli, because he’s the one who convinced this superwoman to become a “heptathlete.”
The article also mentions two Cubans who up and walked away from the PanAm Games, “paid up with U.S. bills,” according to Fidel Castro. Or maybe there were seven of them. Who knows.
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” ~Mark Twain