Packing It In
posted by David Cloninger, 1/19/2010 11:47:00 PM
What’s that sound,
Everybody look what’s going down.”
---------------- THE BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
The country is locked into the worst financial depression since the one that popularized the term.
The death toll in Haiti is at 70,000 and rising after a massive earthquake.
Global warming is soon going to make us all have to walk around wearing 1,000-block suntan lotion.
I have several friends who just lost their jobs.
There are only two Beatles still alive.
Two young athletes, Jeron Lewis and Gaines Adams, died in the prime of their lives and careers from a problem that has felled several young players and seems to have no clue for detection or a cure to stop it.
Try as I might, I can’t forget about her.
Clint Eastwood may never act in another movie (but will probably still direct).
My mother still won’t talk to me about a previous blog I wrote mentioning all of my sins (and this one ain’t going to get me any extra birthday presents).
North Carolina is the defending national basketball champion.
And the Yankees won the World Series.
Over 5,000 Americans have been killed in an ongoing war that seems to have no purpose and no resolution.
The toll on the Southern Connector was raised 25 cents.
Tim Riggins no longer has any high-school eligibility on “Friday Night Lights.”
Jimmy Buffett is playing a concert in Columbia.
After Tiger Woods fell, it seems as if no athlete can ever be unscathed (which is why I keep thanking Dale Murphy).
I’m at an age where my heroes and idols are dying by the gross.
I bet a double-or-nothing kiss the other night and scratched on the 8-ball, losing the kiss and the previous bet where she would have had to wear a Duke T-shirt on our next outing.
My knee still hurts whenever there’s a sudden climate change.
It seems as if we have no politicians who truly have the will to change things, or if they do, they are opposed by the venom of the other side and not allowed to.
There are too many people who still think the best answer for every argument is to pick up a loaded gun.
Technology can build a telephone that can completely run your life, but cannot design a completely safe airplane.
And yet, we could gladly welcome all of it.
If only Eric Mack had come to South Carolina (sob).
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“I think it’s time we stop, children,
What’s that sound,
Everybody look what’s going down.”
---------------- THE BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
The country is locked into the worst financial depression since the one that popularized the term.
The death toll in Haiti is at 70,000 and rising after a massive earthquake.
Global warming is soon going to make us all have to walk around wearing 1,000-block suntan lotion.
I have several friends who just lost their jobs.
There are only two Beatles still alive.
Two young athletes, Jeron Lewis and Gaines Adams, died in the prime of their lives and careers from a problem that has felled several young players and seems to have no clue for detection or a cure to stop it.
Try as I might, I can’t forget about her.
Clint Eastwood may never act in another movie (but will probably still direct).
My mother still won’t talk to me about a previous blog I wrote mentioning all of my sins (and this one ain’t going to get me any extra birthday presents).
North Carolina is the defending national basketball champion.
And the Yankees won the World Series.
Over 5,000 Americans have been killed in an ongoing war that seems to have no purpose and no resolution.
The toll on the Southern Connector was raised 25 cents.
Tim Riggins no longer has any high-school eligibility on “Friday Night Lights.”
Jimmy Buffett is playing a concert in Columbia.
After Tiger Woods fell, it seems as if no athlete can ever be unscathed (which is why I keep thanking Dale Murphy).
I’m at an age where my heroes and idols are dying by the gross.
I bet a double-or-nothing kiss the other night and scratched on the 8-ball, losing the kiss and the previous bet where she would have had to wear a Duke T-shirt on our next outing.
My knee still hurts whenever there’s a sudden climate change.
It seems as if we have no politicians who truly have the will to change things, or if they do, they are opposed by the venom of the other side and not allowed to.
There are too many people who still think the best answer for every argument is to pick up a loaded gun.
Technology can build a telephone that can completely run your life, but cannot design a completely safe airplane.
And yet, we could gladly welcome all of it.
If only Eric Mack had come to South Carolina (sob).
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