Friday
The end of the work week is upon us! Let the three day weekend begin! Work wasn’t bad; I had six or seven hours in flats, too. That helped the day zip along fairly well.

Other things …

  • On All Things Considered, there was a segment about Gay Athletes. Here’s the summary from the ATC website:

    Liane Hansen talks to Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about homosexual athletes in team sports. Earlier this week, a New York Post gossip column intimated that a star on the New York Mets baseball team is gay. Mike Piazza, the team’s catcher, held a press conference after the report’s release to say that he was not gay — and that he would not care if a teammate “came out.” (4:00)

    This segment irritated me. Why? Quite simply because I feel that a person’s sexual orientation is their and their partner’s business. Period. They brought up the point of sponsors, fearing some manner of public backlash, possibly pulling an athlete’s endorsements. Have we taken a giant leap backwards? This reminds me of the problems encountered by African-American athletes attempting to (and finally succeeding in ) break the color barrier in sports. The thought that someone would not back a certain team or athlete because of sexual preference makes an interesting parallel to Hank Aaron approaching and surpassing Babe Ruth’s home run record in 1973; there were MANY people who didn’t like the idea of a black man breaking (not to mention setting) records. Yet, today, there are kids of all ages and races who “want to be like Mike” (Michael Jordan). This instills me with hope. Maybe, just maybe, people will stop judging others based on their sexual preference and judge them on the content of their character.

  • Angie, Julia and I hung out for a while this evening. That’s usually fun; tonight was no exception.
  • I like Steve Harvey; he was a guest on the Conan O’Brien show tonight. He canceled his last scheduled appearance on the program because the RCA Building, where the show is taped, was being evacuated due to an anthrax scare. When Conan jokingly asked why he had canceled, Steve replied: “I was at Comedy Central, taping another show, and I looked at the TV and saw all these people [at the RCA Building] running around in space suits; I have a suit, it doesn’t look like that! I’m from Cleveland. This show doesn’t mean THAT much to me! I canceled.”

    When asked about his thoughts on the current problems facing the Catholic Church, he declined to make a comment about the clergy. He said that, as a whole, a number of good things had been done for the laity by priests and that he would not make light of them because of the transgressions of some of their number. He did, however, have a few comments about the man who claims that he was molested until he was 23. He thought that this was merely a case of someone coming ‘out of the woodwork’ to get some attention and anything else they can from the publicity: “You were 23… 23! You weren’t molested… brother, you were dating! You may have been crying about what was going on, but you were crying while you were driving over there.”

Today’s Quote of the Day comes, once again, from Dee: “If my ass had an ass, this place would suck that ass.”

It’s early and I have to get up later, so I think that I will stop here.

Peace.