Party at SCOTUS

According to thishttp://www.scotusblog.com/2012/03/argument-recap-it-is-kennedys-call/#more-141900, Justice Kennedy is going to make the deciding call on the individual mandate portion of Obamacare, now being argued before them.  As per custom, the four reliable liberal judges are being reliably liberal while the conservative justices (with the exception of Justice Thomas who is busy sharpening pencils) are open minded about things--going this way and that.  Curious how that works out--the lefties being dogmatic while the knuckle draggers are thinking outside the box.

I sat through an hour long webinar about reform, the elections, the economy, and most particularly about some incredibly bureaucratic even by bureaucratic standards requirements that will be put in place for your friendly employer out there and am still sitting here stunned, open mouthed, and on the verge of wetting myself.  Ruinous stuff created by Mandy, and Simon, and Eleanor, and Zoe, et al--smart Ivy grads with a heightened sense of justice as it applies to you and me and the untold zillions of employees that are being chained and beaten and forced to accept wages and cable television and live in a society run by capitalist running dogs.  To date, Mandy and friends have written 12,260 pages of regulations for Obamacare--roughly more than two King James bibles and there is not a soul alive including those brave Dartmouth and Brown grads who know what in the flying f*** is in them.  Fact.  It's a bigger boondoggle than even the most pessimistic doubters of the law would have thought possible and far costlier.  To recognize that President Obama will be re-elected given the debacle is the most damning of indictments regarding the dazzling lack of appeal possessed by Mitt and Rick and Newt and the band of fools the Republicans have trotted out.  It's really best to just go off in the woods somewhere and drink for four or five years.

Saw "21 Jump Street."  Not impressed.

"Mad Men" is back in bidness and it looks like a season of some heavy "social justice" lifting ahead of us.  That will, of course, mean more of Peggy Olsen and her earnest righteousness and who I would prefer not to look at or listen to.  Instead, I would rather watch Don and Roger drink and smoke and make fun of people.  Call me old fashioned.

Less than 160 days to college football season.  As per custom, the NCAA rules committee is filling the void by coming up with inane rules changes.  One--if a player's helmet comes off during a play, he must be disqualified from participating during the remainder of the play and then also sit out the next down.  Personally, I think that if a helmet comes off, it should be deemed a live weapon that a player on either offense or defense may then use to bludgeon an opposing player or NCAA rules committee member.

Baseball is right around the corner and my team is facing a season of heightened ineptitude and record suck.  It makes tolerating Yankee, Red Sox, and Cubs fans even worse than usual.

Thinking about taking one of those European river cruises in the next few years.  Except, every time I look at the brochure, it shows a guy even older than I am in some kind of ridiculous embrace of a slightly younger female who in real life would never put up with that bullshit because she got tired of his lame act thirty years before.  Anyway, it looks semi-appealing until you consider that the boat will be filled with old guys wearing taupe colored shoes with Velcro straps.  I hate Velcro.  And, taupe.  I also don't like the French so maybe we'll just ride on a motorboat down the Colorado.

Peeps (especially the yellow bird ones) go surprisingly good with Modelo Especial.