Halloween’s on a Sunday this year. How lame is that? I realize that there’s over a week until then, but really, who’s going to go to any Halloween parties on Sunday night, aside from those who lost their jobs in the Great Recession? Sure, there will be parties on Friday and Saturday, but it’s like celebrating Christmas on Dec. 22–it’s not the same, and you only do that if your parents are divorced. If you were busy whoring your new talk show during the League Championship Series, odds are you missed it.
Union oui!
Strikes, riots and protests continue in France over a pension reform bill. A major port has been closed for over a week, and six major labor unions are calling for a strike next week. The reform bill would increase the age of retirement from 60 to 62. The French don’t get upset about much, but you take away their right to be lazy, and watch out.
The pace of justice is slow
Justice Clarence Thomas is known as the joker of the Supreme Court today, but nearly 20 years ago, judge trying to get a promotion, when some woman said he shouldn’t get it because his humor was too awesome. Now, Thomas’ wife, Virginia, wants an apology from Anita Hill for her testimony during Thomas’ 1991 confirmation hearings that nearly torpedoed his job. Why now, no one knows. What we do know is that the pubic-hair-on-the-Coke-can gag never gets old around my office.
It’s a family thing
If you can out-drink your friend, it might not be your own skill, the fact that you think nothing of polishing off a sixer on a nightly basis, or your genes, it may actually be your friend’s genes. Geneticists have found a gene that significantly reduces the likelihood of alcoholism. The down side is that it also makes that person more sensitive to alcohol, getting drunk faster. That makes sense, because to be an alcoholic, you really need to be able to hold your booze. They don’t send you to AA because after work you go have a couple Mike’s Hard Lemonades and wake up on someone’s lawn.