Sunday Funnies

Books

Cormac McCarthy wins a British prize for The Road, which also won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Diane has just finished this book and found it excellent - both of us have enjoyed his writings, especially his Border Trilogy which included All the Pretty Horses, the one that got us started as big Cormac McCarthy fans. If you are a reader of books and haven't read any of this man's writings, then you have a real treat in store for you. Suggestion: get thee down to the library or over to your local amazon.com website and get yourself any one of Cormac's books, find a quiet room, and have a super time being transported to a different time and place by this master wordsmith. BTW, I started The Road but put it aside when Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress arrived in the mail. It's next in line...

War Deaths

Thers at Firedoglake blogs about the body count in the Iraqi War and laments the fact that we really don't know how many Iraqis have died. Thirty-seven hundred and something Americans, at least seventy some thousand Iraqis but maybe over half a million Iraqis. Americans want a stop to the killing; WH says go forward, just need a few more months or ten years, maybe twenty-five.

Sports

-Lorena Ochoa up by one heading into the final round of the Safeway Classic. Can she make it three in a row?
-Colts breeze; caught a little of the game in the fourth quarter last night; Blue #12 and #15 were playing catch.
-Brady Quinn plays some more for Browns, again is impressive. Go Browns (not against the Colts though...).
-Steve Stricker leading The Barclays. Missing Tiger. A playoff without the #1 golfer in the world? Must not be a real playoff then.

Heading back to the golf course. Eric had the clubhouse this morning; expect to see more of him there (what a great idea!). Pam at the controls at the moment. Diane had her Community League round with Lucas this morning, early, then took Lucas and me down to the Cabin. Kerry Stoll and Lisa Ader among the many good folk there enjoying a hearty breakfast. Lisa encouraged me to keep after her hubby and her brother; I assured her I would. Larry, the brother, is easy to keep after. Yesterday was one of his Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde days on the golf course. For instance, he finished up his 18 hole adventure by parring both holes #2 and #3 but actually hit six atrocious shots and only two good ones. Of course, those two were desperation shots that somehow found the bottom of the cup and thus became more fodder for the legend that is Larry Hembree (smile...).

Ok, see you over at the golf course.