JANUARY
4, 2007 --
On
Politics:
The late Peter Jennings, after the November 8, 1994 elections that gave Republicans
House and Senate majorities, suggested in a radio commentary that the American
people had just displayed a political tantrum.
As LPR sees it, the political tantrum-throwers are the liberals-every since
Election Night 1994, and expects the tantrums will continue by means of harassing
hearing, subpoena sanctimony and political power pillages.
LPR does not see Gerald R. Ford-like amiability on the left. It is up to the
country to keep Democrats in check, LPR fearing it is hopeless to expect Republicans
or media to oppose -- or even recognize -- political overreaching by
the returned Democratic congressional majorities.
Perhaps, however, if 2007 is to prove to be The Year of James Bond, we shall
prevail over the politicos and media people
who confuse cleverness for common sense.
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On College
Football:
Once upon a time, January 1 begat four major college football bowl games: Cotton,
Sugar, Orange and Rose.
Lesser bowl games, Gator and Sun, for example, were played late in December.
Then the Orange Bowl was pushed to prime time to one-up the Rose Bowl. And a
new major appeared -- Fiesta Bowl.
And not all the four majors were played January 1.
And bowl games got named for sponsors, not just for generic commodities
produced in the bowl vicinity.
And the major college football post-season game became the Bowl
Championship Series which is not a "series" at all, just a rankings
formula that perhaps a rocket scientist would have difficulty determining.
What is the NCAA trying to prove: the invalidity of the adage that the more things
change, the more they stay the same?
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