soapbox

Dammit all anyways! Here’s the crappy news, in case you’ve been spelunking or something and haven’t heard via TV/E-mail/text/smoke-signal/etc. I suppose Ortiz has always been suspect (especially to the haters), but I for one was hoping he’d be one of the good examples left when all the dust settles.

I just hope Papi proceeds along the high road from here: own up to it, explain yourself (like Pettitte did), and start earning your way back into good graces by upping the ante on his own unique brand of charitable efforts.

I’m so frustrated with all the doping mess in baseball that I’m thinking my general well-being would be better served by following a different sport. One where the money to love-of-the-game balance hasn’t tipped over to the profiteering-at-the-expense-of-sportsmanship line. I hear that pankration is making a comeback, and it would definitely appeal to the side of me that loves reading Sophocles, so that’s a bonus.

Just when I’d finally accepted the fact that Tom Cruise is crazy (duh) but it’s still ok to watch his movies, now I’ve made a horrible discovery and will never be able to watch a Jason Lee movie the same way.

Eh, it hopefully won’t be a big deal, as long as Lee doesn’t make it a big deal, but still… should I have been surprised? Did other people know about him/others on the list?

Biggest surprise to me: Greta Van Susteren – yes she’s on Fox, and that’s worth a few crazy points, but she has an education, for one, and by all accounts was a pretty good lawyer, so oh well.

Well, summer seems to have produced a lull in the ever-exciting soapbox blogging, so I thought I would fill in the gap with a question. Does anyone know why the northeast region in good ol’ VT is called the Northeast Kingdom? The barn girls & friends had the opportunity to spend some time on beautiful Lake Willoughby and I couldn’t help but ponder over “the kingdom”. The only explanation I found was that a beloved VT senator exclaimed that area was so beautiful that it should be called the northeast kingdom. However, I feel like this explanation is a bit sketchy and certainly anticlimactic, so if anyone knows a better story or just wants to make up one, I’d be all ears.

Lake Willoughby: You should all spend time here if you can.