I head to Boston on Thursday.  I'll probably still have time to blog.  I'm sure you're relieved to hear that.

Saw 'Les 400 Coups' (the 400 blows) by Francois Truffaut this week.  Not bad for an old film.  Give it a 7/10 or so.

It's been an incredibly mild summer in Austin.  Not a single heat wave yet.  60 straight days of below average temperatures.  Too much rain. 

Slow week.  Washington's on vacation.  Economic uncertainty rising (interesting to hear Jimmy Cayne's name in the news in a non-bridge context.)

Is it just me, or was that collapsed bridge story completely overblown?  I know, it's just me.  But c'mon, 8 dead people.  Local tragedy, sure, but not a national story.  8 of our kids and 80 Iraqis get killed over there almost every day.

I'm having a hard time deciding which of the 3 Republican front-runners is the creepiest.  You've got Giuliani, the opportunistic, conniving, lisping, philandering, cross-dressing, fear-mongerer, whose kids won't even vote for him.  You've got Romney, the vote-buying, flip-flopping, chickenhawk, who says he's going to increase the size of the military and yet not one of his 5 sons served.  Finally you've got McCain, the quintessential sellout.  A decrepit old man who made the classic Faustian bargain and has nothing to show for it.  Of the 3, Romney is the least offensive, but just barely.  If only Al Gore were completing his 2nd term and Jeb Bush were running against Joe Lieberman (speaking of quintessential sellouts.)  Oh, what a wonderful world it would be ...

 

See you in Beantown.