The Sunshine Empire

This week is going to be a drudgery. With only a few days until my vacation in Oregon, and NFL training camps opening the next week, the midsummer is upon us. I have only a passing interest in Baseball so there’s not much to follow sports-wise, other than playing the shit out of NCAA Football 2008 on the new Playstation Three at the offices of The Thoughts of Biggus Rickus Blog. Biggus still beat me but I’m at least putting up a fight in this game.

Politics is more of the same. With the all-night Senate session behind them, Congress is not likely now to have a major showdown moment on Iraq with the White House until the September report of General David Petreaus, cheerleader and future fall guy for the Bush Administration. As many have written, if this surge does not succeed Tony Snow will be telling us that we all knew it was the General’s fault. In addition, Senate Republicans have made no secret of their strategy to prevent any legislation from passing. Look for the 2008 slogan of many challenging republicans in the Congress to be “throw out the do-nothing Dems.” Yet in sports and politics everything will heat up this fall.

But I still look at this trip to the opposite side of the country as huge. I haven’t seen a meaningful mountain in person in almost 15 years. I keep to flatter climes. I almost wonder if the toilets flush the opposite way. I’m also going to step foot in Texas and those people bother me. They’ve just become a little too full of themselves, and all they’ve given us is LBJ, Pace Picante sauce, and Dubya. We are then subjected to anything rugged being called “Texas” something or other. Those people are vicious. They execute retarded people. In all seriousness I’m sure most of them are good people like Hank Hill. And if I got to hang out with them in the ally then I would be willing to let bygones be bygones.