my alma mater and flip flops

what's not to like about this story? my alma mater has won its first national championship EVER in the sport of women's lacrosse. the ladycats got a trip to the white house to recognize their accomplishments and now there's some controversy over their choice of footwear.

daily kos has waggishly suggested that perhaps the ladycats are protesting bush's "flip flop" on how to punish the leaker in his administration. funny story.

read about it.

click on the image above to see the offending footwear.

the dark knight

this past weekend sarah and i saw batman begins. very good, without exception -- and yes i mean the michael keaton one too -- this was the best batman movie hollywood has made. wait, let me qualify that, this was the best live action batman movie hollywood has made. the animated series has provided consistently good movies.

but all in in all this one had decent acting, good storyline, atmospheric in the style that does justice to the frank miller adaptation of bob kane's batman. definitely worth your $7 or $8. sarah -- whose not really a fan of "comic book" movies even liked it best. she thinks christian bale is much more believable as a bruce wayne than michael keaton.

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4th of july 2005

so in what seems like forever ago, sarah and i drove out to iowa to spend some time with her family and our extended "family" the hansons. good times, cute babies, golfing. what more could you want? it's iowa man! the heartland. corn country. kevin costner and shoeless joe walking on a baseball diamond. a caucus every four years. sigh. good stuff. i like iowa. click here for photos

21 days

that's about as long a hiatus as i've ever had in updating the blog. apologies all around the last two and half weeks have been just crazy. travel, a brief, a moot court competition, a trial @ work. sheesh. but i'm back. did ya miss me? lots of things to upload and talk about. look for about 3 or 4 back dated posts today.

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shebly foote (1917-2005)

as a who man appreciated history, shelby foote would probably only note that he just missed seeing the 142nd anniversary of what he called "the crossroads of our being." i reference of course the battle of gettysburg (july 1st - 4th in 1863) and the now the passing of the authority on the subject.

like most americans i became intimately aquainted with both the battle and the story behind it through ken burn's the civil war. as a principle commentator and contributor foote brought the documentary to life; his soft mississippi drawl fit the sepia toned photos of the war like a smooth wine.

when sarah and i lived in nyc and i was unemployed i actually had the time to tackle foote's magnum opus, The Civil War: A Narrative. its a BIG three volume set that's definitely not for the meek reader or these days the busy law student. do yourself a favor some summer and work yourself through it. foote's lyricism and tales of the war capture the essence of the in way comparable only to homer writing the illiad about the trojan war.

this book: the killer angels is also worth a read, especially this weekend. on this date in 1863 the union captured the high ground on a hill called little round top. . .