Wednesday, May 25, 2005

grand chelem and other bits

one of my favorite french words is chelem--it means slam as in grand slam but it always
sounds to me that it was borrowed from yiddish.

many thanks for the advice on star wars--i guess i will suck it in and screen the whole shebang starting with no. 1---fast forwarding through jar jar binks will save time and nausea.

for the life of me i can't understand the democrats crowing over a victory on the filibuster issue.
we get 3 abominable judges, the possibilty of frist reviving the next 2 from the twilight zone of jurisprudence and the renewal of bitterness at a later date as to what defines "extraordinary"
circumstances.
it may very well be the best that could be done given the present republican majority but it's nothing to celebrate.

i was told yesterday,by the way, by r. from british columbia that he has received 3 calls
from americans looking for jobs in canada because of their despair over the direction of u.s. policy and politics.

2 comments:

dl004d said...

I recommend she start with Episode 4 and see them in the order that the rest of us did.

Anonymous said...

I full-heartedly agree with D. to watch 4-6 first, then 1 and 2, finishing with 3 in the theater.

At least it should be in the theaters for a while...