1. Be sure to check out my continuing Monday posts on DaTechGuy blog each week. They go up a little after noon each Monday. This week my post reflects on the upcoming administration of John Bel Edwards. Color me skeptical.
2. Why is Donald Trump still leading in the polls? Seriously. I'm not being derogatory about Trump supporters, but I swear I spoke to one guy a week ago who said he likes Trump "because you just never know what he will say!" It's like reality tv! SMDH.
Okay, so Rubio and Cruz are trending up and that's good. Steve will never be on board with Rubio but I can be. My history with Rubio is very well documented, all the way back to May 2009 on this and multiple other blogs. I'm predicting the nominee will be Rubio (yes, I KNOW conservatives hate his immigration stance; trust me. The Legal Insurrection readers have flayed me over this).
And by the way, The New Yorker has an interesting profile of Rubio, here.
3. I think Ben Carson is a very kind, gentle man; he won't be president.
4. I really, really miss the sane, rational, intelligent voice of Bride of Rove. Perhaps she will come back in 2016? *Hoping*
5. There are some great local activities going on this week: the annual Candlelight Christmas Service will be this Friday, December 4, at the Brown Chapel on the Centenary campus. We went last year and it's just beautiful. I've been looking forward to it all year. Saturday, December 5 will be the Pioneer Christmas Parade and Trade Days in Grand Cane. It begins early but is always a good time.
6. Gertrude Stein once said “It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.” The revisions to my Cammie book are sitting here, ready to go, but I haven't done them. In part, I hate to get back in there and mess up what I've done, but I know that in the end it will be better. In another part, my deadline is August 1. That's a long way away and I work better under pressure. So, I'm setting myself a February 1 deadline. There's a reason behind that date that I don't want to get into right now, but suffice to say that my goal is to have the manuscript ready to go by February 1.
While I do have a contract with LSU Press, the manuscript still has to get by their panel of expert readers, so I have to get my act together. Right now I am doing some additional research and reading to round out a couple of thin spots in my manuscript. I had no idea what a long process this is; but, it will be a better book for it all!
7. What a screwed-up-dirty dog-cluster-monkey-mess this LSU story has been this week. The only person that needs to go ANYWHERE is Joe Alleva. What an inept ass. Both Miles and the players deserve better than what they got from Alleva this past week.
8. Have you tried this? It is heaven. I can only find it at Sam's Club -- during the holidays. Stock up.
9. I am SO ready for baseball season at Centenary to begin. This is the fastest three months of the year for me.
Have a good week. I'm back to work this week after Thanksgiving break and we are heading into EOC testing. We are ready. Then we get to kill Macbeth. Awesome! Then Christmas break!
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Trump is leading because he fights. He gets in the faces of the Lefties and gives them a good, strong dose of their own medicine good and hard. He's also been out front on the illegals and the "refugees" the Democrats want to import to a) stuff the ballot boxes in this country forever and b) to do that "fundamental transformation" to convert the rest of the country into that Third World sewer California has become.
ReplyDeleteWe do BJs, but I don't know if Popcorn Indiana is there. I think Bed, Bath carries it. The only good thing about Sam's (they're on my drop dead list for life because of the Confederate flag - and I'm a Yankee) is wider selection.
PS Macbeth, huh? Lucky you.
I discovered Master Will in III Form (9th grade in some quarters, III Form sounds so much better) with "Merchant of Venice", but we did Mac in IV Form and, as a counterpoint, "The Emperor Jones" (there was a series of books that bundled a Shakespeare play with something modern).