The Wonder Of It All...

Couple of things I've learned this week:

In Canada, if you pay an extra $1.25, you get sweet-potato fries.

One would do well to spend a portion of each day unsubscribing from e-mail lists.

My kid's former elementary school's PTA has been the hardest list from which to unsubscribe. Way harder than Buy!Buy!Buy!.com

In the 1600s, they lived half as long, but their lives were twice as uncomplicated. (I'll wait.....) And if they were English, they could attend a world premier of Shakespeare's and spend an evening laughing at four near-medieval yuppies dithering about in the woods. Meanwhile, we have Charlie Sheen, who's both a tragedy and a comedy, wrapped up in a stripper  enigma.

I pretty much love it when the Yankees' radio announcers are reduced to making jokes about clichés. It shows humility.

Post-Season baseball is like when a team shows up at the Pearly Gates, and St. Peter doesn't quite believe them yet.

If you're reading this, you weren't blown up in Somalia, executed in China, or drowned in the East River yesterday.

People might get over their unresolved issues faster if they handed their shrink fistfuls of cash at the end of every session.

Check out Star Trek VI again. You could do a lot worse.

The immunologist who died from cancer days before his Nobel Prize was announced--after applying his life's work to his own body in the form of experimental treatment--seems to have spent an exemplary time on this planet. He happened to be Canadian. I wonder if he went for the sweet-potato fries. I'm hoping he did.

The Blaiser Blog Post-Season Dream Team:

Starting Pitcher

Catcher

First Base Coach

General Manager 

Outfield

Infield

Manager

Third Base Coach

Pinch Runner

Designated Hitter

Closer

Bat Boy

Bat Girl

Relief Pitcher


Thanks for indulging me. Please also try to remember that the only thing that keeps us from floating off into space, and certain death, is gravity.

And You Thought You Had It Bad...

Given the profound devastation in Haiti coupled with the profound reflection of the recent Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here in the USA, BlaiserBlog has been on a thoughtful hiatus.

Like Abe Vigoda, however, Zany Optimism ctm is not dead. Please give money to your favorite aid-relief organization. I patronized Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) earlier this week, not only due to their sterling reputation, but also because they use accent marks, which always make me feel exotic and hipper.

Thanks for reading, and always remember that it shouldn't take stacks of dead, poor people in the streets for us to be reminded that 1) we should be thankful for what we have, and 2) Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh are uncivil embarassments of the first order, and awful, awful human beings.

 (I'd have Chief Justice Roberts, for example, over for dinner any day of the week, because I respect his mind, and the conversation would be stimulating. But those other two jerk-weeds aren't making it past my front door.)