Opening Stuff:
If your are perhaps feeling a little tired of the Winter just think about Click and Crack! The click as the club hits the litttle white pellat 280 yards to the center of the fairway, and the crack of the bat as major League baseball revs up for the Red Sox march to the title. And then or course there is Whapp-Pop, Whapp-Pop, Whapp-Pop...
There was a little story in the paper with a pic of a little pussy cat outside of the venerable 10 Downing Street in London. It provide me with a vision of a kinder-gentler Prime Minister taking in the cute "Tabby" for comfort and calm. Until you learned that the little pussy cat was being hired to take care of the rat problem,. Yes Tabby is a killer. A blood thirsty hired assassin. 009-lives.
And then there was this item about Obama's awarding to the Medals to leading contributors to our society. One was George HW Bush. The little newspaper quickie bio said "He he has given 70 of his 86 years to public service starting when he at "18" joined the Navy." I guess the math was done by the the same people who are trying to tell us that 0-Man's budget is going to save us $1 Trillion over a decade.
One of our all time great observant readers reminded me that Miles Davis was not a pianist but one of the all time great jazz trumpet players...and perhaps one of the most influential jazz musicians of the great jazz era. And, I used to play a Miles Davis LP endlessly. I am losin' it!
The Question: With the days turning a little more Spring-like, I thought I'd move it along with a question about men in short pants...and the Whapp-Pop of tennis balls flittering across nets. Which countries have the most players and contributors elected to the Tennis Hall of Fame. Who were the earliest inductees?
The Headlines:
--Egypt New Sense Of Calm Broken By Agressive Labor Protests; Army Warns.--Dell Soars Past Profit Estimates; Inspires The Street.
--Borders Declares Bankruptcy; Starts Closing Stores.
--0-Man and Congress Punting Entitlement Football Back And Forth; No Yardage Gained.
--Stuxnet Worm Had Little Or No Effect On Iran Progress Towards Nukes.
--Scottish Deerhound Takes It All In Big Westminster Kennel Club Show.
--Bahrain Protesters Join Club; Small Country Is Home To US Fleet And Center Of US Middle East Ops; Military On Alert.
Back to More Stuff:
You have to love, I think , the Philadelphia English teacher who called out students in a profanity laced blog as "Disengaged, Lazy Whiners". The interesting question here is what's wrong with calling out the unmotivated students as a major ingredient, if not the most important one, in the collapse of US education. Somehow our culture has given some kids the idea that everything comes easy and that there is nothing they don't deserve.
The Egypt protests are over, but it appears the problems are only just beginning. The Labor gangs see it as a moment to request bigger salaries, in a time when there is very little income at all in the country. The jubilation of the mobs on 2/11 was also somewhat more brutal than originally reported by the media. CBS 60 Minutes Journalist Lara Logan was brutally attacked by happy Egyptians including a sustained sexual assault. too many people in Egypt will see the victory by the people as an opportunity for pressing for selfish ideologies or undisciplined rampaging. As I said, the end is the first step in hard beginning.
Yesterday I heard a recording of a well know Country Western singer doing some rap, or whatever it is called. It was significantly unentertaining. I thought you went to CW to get some melodies back.
Oh.. above I alluded to the slight of hand associated with the announcement that the new 0-Man budget would save us $1 Trillion over a decade. That's just a politicians way of saying that instead of my budget adding $8 Trillion to the deficit in a decade, I will only add a number the size of China's economy, $7 Trillion, to the deficit. Beware of politicians baring gifts. In other words this new bold budget just gets us into more hot water.
Most of the Hall of Fame's honoring sports heroes didn't start til the 1930's. But, you got to figure that there were plenty of athletic people in the 16th - 19th Century America. Or, were people just rated for how the worked on the farm or for the good of a community. Who was the first great athlete? Think about how huge athletics is in this society, as opposed to a past where it was barely mentioned if at all.
We often report on the vanishing symbols of America's great past, but has there been a bigger disappearance than that yesterday of The New York Stock Exchange. Yikes! The face of Capitalism now under the control of Germany's Deutsche Boerse, with 60% of the board not US. What's next? The White House owned by Islam nations?
Dell says it is projecting 8-10% in revenue growth for the next year. But, I'd watch this bellwether #2 computer maker closely. Will we learn that it "padded" its forecast, and will its results be depadded. The tech focus in 2011 will indubitably be upon the IPad and all of the many wannabees. This will be fun to watch.
The Answer:
In keeping with the Tids mission of not forgetting the past, I like Questions like this that pay tribute to heroes maybe forgotten as new generations roll in. The Hall was established at Newport's beautiful victorian style Tennis Casino in 1954. The US has 122 members far outdistancing Austalia (25), Great Britain (24), France (10), Sweden (5), Germany (4), Brazil and Italy (2) and Ireland/Mexico (1). The early inductees were Beals Wright, Bob Wrenn, Richard Williams, Hazel Wightman, Malcom Whitman, Holcombe Ward, Bill Tilden, Maude Wallach, Richard Sears, Maurice McLaughlin, Molla Mallory, Art Larson, Bill Larned, Bill Johnston, James Dwight, William clothier, Joseph Clarke,Oliver CampbellMay Sutton Bundy and Mary Kendall Brown. Kind of a surprise isn't it. Some of the early memorable names like Helen Jacobs, Helen Wills Moody, Don Budge or Renee LaCoste didn't get in until ten or so years after these earliest inductees.
The End:
That's me...I think I know something and then I find I don't. I guess that's as good a reason as any to keep on looking because you are bound to learn a lot.
Of course, I'll never understand why Hip-Hop, Rap and other new music genre are considered listenable. I guess it's more about animal instinct.
Actually, some readers may be worrying about me, as a couple of you wrote abut use of "Pot" in the recipe yesterday. And of course today I start with "Crack"!
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