"...It's one, two, three strikes your out!"

Gang, it's finally over.  The White Sox won the 2005 World Series.  I'm extremely happy about this.  No, I'm not a White Sox fan.  I'm not even a baseball fan.  I'm glad it's over so everyone can get back to their regularly scheduled programming and lives.  The last few weeks have been exasperating.  Every meeting or conference call I've had began with a 5-10 minute discussion about the Sox.  Of course I was left out and looking like some idiot.  My co-worker kept saying I should interject with something innocuous like the weather.  So everyone would be talking about the game and I would say something like, ".. and did you get that weather during the game?!"  Sounded too forced so I just sat there looking like an idiot.  Nothing new.  What really pissed me off was when I was watching David Letterman and he had Bette Midler on.  I love Bette!  They cut right into the game to announce the winner of the World Series.  Who cares?  I want my Bette!!

 

But it's over now so we can focus on such trivial matters like the possible indictment of high level officials in the White House.  Will Lewis Libby and Karl Rove be raked over the coals?  We can discuss minor issues like Harriet Meyers submitting her withdrawal as a nominee from the high court due to pressure from the conservative right!  Who will the president nominate next for the bench, Elmo??  (Doesn't all this stuff at the executive level make you think that political capital GW spoke about has been spent??)  I think people barely noticed that Rosa Parks passed away!  I know one or two of you out there is asking yourself, "Who is Rosa Parks?".  To that I say get on the bus, get to the library and read about some real American history.  Or you could be lazy and just click here.  This should give you a short primer of conversation topics for the rest of us.  Hey, looks like it's going to be a beautiful day today!