I’ve always read historical books. Guess it makes me a dull guy, but I’m always intrigued to find out how we, the human race, got from point A to point B. To me, there’s a lot of truth in the saying “Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it” (coined by writer George Santayana, who, oddly enough, I know nothing about). I’ve always used historical works to frame current events – makes reality a bit more palatable.
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Yesterday, the Triangle area of North Carolina was under a “winter storm warning.” For days, the local weather guys had painted a picture of an almost-certain “storm” of 2-4 inches of snow. For a region that averages about 8 inches every year – and hasn’t seen any measurable snow in about three years – this was big stuff.
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Tonight, I watched the Cowboys lose to the Giants, and if I was ever thankful that I spurned my allegiance to the ‘Boys, it was tonight (to recap: the Cowboys signed TO, and after two decades of support, I just gave up because, really, they don’t care about me, so I don’t have to care about them). This game would have been gut wrenching, not just because the Cowboys’ choke job turned Eli Manning into a clutch performer (no small feat). It’s mostly because the pre-T.O. Dallas fan in me would have been absolutely sure that Patrick Crayton threw this game.
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Tonight, the college football award will try to anoint its national champion with all the precision and deft care of a drunk frat boy trying to piss on a lit cigarette… while riding in the back of an RV… being driven by an even drunker frat guy… down a gravel road… at night… without headlights…
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Tonight, I sat down and surfed the channels a bit. When I got to Channel 54, I stumbled across In the Line of Fire, a pretty decent Eastwood movie. Of course, channel 54 is TV Land. The channel that was formed to give us a chance to see classic (or near-classic) shows like Sanford & Son and The Beverly Hillbillies. So, they’re playing a 1993 suspense movie. That makes sense.
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