In front of CNN's coverage ... a typical reaction to "Lou Dobbs"
"I can't bear to look at the election results!"
After a long night focusing on election results, Anderson takes a power nap.
For those of you who didn't know that I grew up in Ohio, I grew up in a suburb of Youngstown, an economically depressed area of the country with the lowest per capita income of any city in the US. Once a stronghold of the steel industry, the jobs all left in the late 1970s and all Youngstown can claim is that their citizens can punch other people hard, as witnessed by former boxing champion Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and current champion Kelly Pavlik. And, of course, they keep hoping that the steel industry will come back to Youngstown.
Their delusions continued with the victory of Hillary Clinton in the Ohio primary. Somehow this former member of WalMart's board who lent her campaign $5 million dollars and refuses to release her tax returns convinced Ohio voters that she represents the working class blue collar worker. If they fall for this sort of gimmick, Ohio deserves all of the bad economy it's been getting. That and the fact that they never left behind the dream of a janitor getting paid $30 an hour in the 1980's because of union protection and wondered why industries left for Mexico. Maybe Hillary promised that she would be gettin' them those jobs back. In Texas she tells us what we want to hear too. Regardless, this was her last hurrah and it's nice to see her willing to take down the democratic party's chances in November to further her career. She doesn't have the delegates and can't win without stealing the election at the convention. If McCain squeaks out a win in November, remember how she went negative now and gave the Republicans ammunition ...
On a non-political note, Natalie's parents came to visit this past weekend. A good time was had by all and we quickly had them babysitting while we went to "Dave and Buster's" for an impromptu date. Nothing more entertaining than watching Natalie play the simulated boxing game.
Otherwise, Anderson will be 6 months old tomorrow. We'll be celebrating this with banana-orange baby food, which Anderson will probably spit up in celebration. Big day indeed. On Friday he'll go to the doctor for his height, head circumference and weight. Given that one of the 2 month olds is as big as Anderson, we're already teaching him the terms "giddy up" as his athletic future is that of a jockey ...
