Things are going well; we're four weeks into the summer quarter, and things are moving along fairly smoothly, save for a flu-like set of symptoms that laid me low last night and today. We had a campus-wide picnic yesterday, so I had hot dogs for both lunch and dinner (they had a 11-2 shift for the day students and a 5-7 shift for the night students). I'm not sure if it wasn't a bad hot dog not cooperating or a rotavirus, which is the technical term for the stomach/intestinal flu.
For years, we jokingly called such a critter the Roto-Rooter flu, for it cleaned you out on both ends. Well, it may better be pronounced Rota-Rooter.
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The British Open might be interesting viewing this weekend. The leader board is shark-infested, with Greg Norman only a shot off of KC Choi's lead. Last year's champ Padraig Harrington is three back, as is US Open runner up Rocco Mediate.
That's a 53-year-old Greg Norman, set to bust the oldest-major winner record wide open, if Rocco doesn't do it. Hey, marrying Chris Everett must suit him well.
The other name a bit back on the leader board is a blast from the past; Jean Van de Velde. It was nine years ago at the British Open that he had probably the worse choke in golf history, coming into the 18th on Sunday up three, then making triple bogey to fall into a playoff that he lost. He's at +4, five back, but is a hot round from getting up into the short-version of the leader board. If Mediate or Norman can't bag a title, getting VdV to shake that image would be nice.
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Some interesting politics down in Argentina, where a tax on food exports (not imports, mind you, exports; they wanted to keep the food at home) was narrowly voted down in their Senate, with the Vice President voting against the government to break the tie. Picture Dick Chaney voting down a Republican must-pass bill, and you get a bit of the drama. That's going to be an interesting cabinet meeting, especially if president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner cusses like Hillary can when mad.
That's good for food prices, good for free markets and bad for left-populism. Between the FARC getting put on the run in Columbia and the Peronistas getting shot down in Argentina, it's not been a good summer for South American leftists.
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