What Have You Done Lately?

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Happy Birthday, LMK!

Last night Liz and I went to see "Come Back, Little Sheba". What a wonderful play and two such strong performances in the husband and wife roles. William Inge made a career of writing plays about the sad human condition. This is basically the story of a strong wife who stands by her alcoholic, extremely abusive husband while living in the past when everything was romantic and the future looked so delightful.

Congrats to Ms. Hillary and Mr. John. It is still a very long way to go but it is definitely interesting to actually have a race.

Speaking of John McCain, I am still reading Chris Matthews book, slowly for sure. There is a chapter called "Rites of Passage" where he writes about moments that changed peoples' lives.

"For Senator John McCain, his moment of testing came on a very specific date: October 26, 1967. It was the day his plane was shot down over Hanoi. ............When a surface-to-sir missile sheared off his right wing, McCain ejected. Knocked unconscious, both of his arms and one leg broken, he parachuted into a lake. An angry crowd, bitterly weary of the American bombing, dragged him from the water. One Vietnamese broke McCain's shoulder with a rifle butt. .......McCain was denied any medical attention. There were to be five and a half more years of imprisonment and beatings. For two years he was kept in solitary confinement."

Then we have JFK. We all have heard about his PT109 whatever.

"PT-109 was three miles from shore. To get his men even to relative safety...Kennedy swam for five hours. He did so with the strap of a badly burnt crewman's life jacket in his teeth."

Like I said-what have you done lately?

Can I explain something about Lidocaine? You know-Lidocaine that your dentist injects into your mouth before he rips it apart. You know-Lidocaine that Roger Clemens claims his trainer injected into his ass. Lidocaine is a local anesthetic. It only affects the tissue in the area where it is injected. It does not travel systemic and offer relief anywhere else. So unless Roger was looking to relief a pain in his ass? No one would inject Lidocaine in his ass otherwise.