Time Delay

I was just reading this article at Yahoo! about Tom DeLay. Apparently, he and his lawyers want a new judge assigned to case. “Why?,” you ask? The current judge donated to Moveon.org. According to the footer of the MoveOn.org main page, this is who they claim to be:

The MoveOn family of organizations consists of two entities. MoveOn.org Civic Action, a 501(c)(4) organization, primarily focuses on education and advocacy on important national issues. And MoveOn.org Political Action, a federal political committee, primarily helps members elect candidates who reflect our values.

In reality, they are a far-left political group that is anti-Bush and anti-anything-or-anyone-Republican-or-Conservative. Being that this is a “politically charged” case, I can’t say that I blame DeLay for requesting another judge. I’m not sure that the current judge could put personal biases aside given the nature of this case.
Anyway, my original reason for this post is that if you say his name aloud — go ahead and do it, I’ll wait — it sounds like somebody with a southern accent saying ‘time delay.’ Here are some definitions, via Google. While I’m ranting about his name anyway, what’s with the capital ‘L’? It doesn’t change the pronunciation; “delay” and “DeLay” spoken aloud are identical to me. To quote Nirvana:

“Oh well, whatever, never mind…”

Fantasy Football

This is the first year that I have participated in fantasy football. My wife, father-in-law, brothers-in-law and some friends have a free league set up on Yahoo!, and let me tell you – it is a lot of fun. The scoring is all done for you, and you can trade players, pick up free agents, decide whom to play this week, and whom to bench. Each week you play head-to-head against another player in your league, and the one with the most total points wins for the week. If you are even a casual football observer I urge you to check it out, although you’ll probably have to wait for next season. Football fanatics must check it out. That’s right, you must. I’m not giving you a choice.
OK, OK, I know – you want to know how I’m doing in the league. Well, I could be doing better, but currently in our league of 8 people, I am in fourth place at 3-3. I just eeked out a win last night, 51.82 to 51.19, thanks to my starting quarterback this week, Peyton Manning. All in all, a good way to finish up my birthday. :)

28

…is the age I turned today. 30 is really coming up quick now. D’oh!