* 2012 RNC in Tampa. Phoenix was a finalist, and having it there would have made it a lot easier for the party’s Presidential nominee.
* He took the Eddie Money song (“I wanna go back, and do it all over”) a little too seriously. Perhaps the reason he was able to keep the scam going for as long as he did is because he decided to go for a re-run of his high school basketball career at a football-crazy school, the one portrayed in Friday Night Lights the book and movie. The most infuriating part of this story is that the school let him enroll and play on the team because he claimed he was an illegal alien from Haiti. Sounds to me like Texas needs SB 1070. Before that, it needs a decent Governor.
* Most of the 20 least patronized National Monuments are in NM and AZ, but two of them, one in Missouri, jump right out at me for a very obvious reason. Which leads me to this conclusion: Morris Dees, don’t expect to make up the money you’re spending to convert the old SPLC home office into a civil rights museum too quickly, if at all.
* Did you know that the SPLS runs a special high school within the confines of CVAP at the old Southwest, and one that will soon be housed in a building of its own near SLU/Glennon, that is described as giving refugee children “a safe place to learn?” Now all we need is for the SLPS to do the same for school-age students representing St. Louis City’s biggest racial minority of native born people.
* Michelle Obama obsesses about fatty and sugary foods and children, but her husband still hasn’t appointed a Chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.
* One bad turn deserves another: Guess whose plagiarism Elena Kagan treated with kid gloves while she ran Harvard Law? Yep, Lawrence Tribe, who was one of the superlawyers who took Al Gore’s side as he tried to steal Florida from Bush in 2000.
