Yeah, that's ouchy, even if the person is smoking crack.

Which they are. Barry Bonds may not be the day-to-day story he is in the Bay, but he and his controversies are certainly general knowledge (some present company excepted, of course.)

Barry Bonds may not be the day-to-day story he is in the Bay, but he and his controversies are certainly general knowledge (some present company excepted, of course.)

Jon Stewart caps on Bonds all the damn time (he's recently added Paris Hilton to the capping roster, which just proves what a raging bigot he is).

I believe I've mentioned our more-or-less monthly Bataan Death March meeting here - each department gets up and does a review of what we've been doing for the past month, what we're doing for the next month, where we are financially ... it tends to go on all day.

Anyway, one person has threatened to do her presentation in interpretative dance. Another tends to wave her arms around a lot - we're not sure if she's going for interpretative dance, or semaphore (a la the Monty Python "Wuthering Heights").

Barry Bonds' divorce is too good an example to give up -- despite all the litigating celebrities find themselves tangled up in, very little of it goes to the appellate courts (which is where I need it to be for it to show up as an example in the research tools), and even less is a subject that I don't have to explain (i.e., 99.9% of people know what a divorce and a premarital agreement are). Besides, it's a damn good story.

So, phooey on that student. His/Her comment shall be politely ignored.

I think I'm missing something here, maybe because I don't follow baseball any more. What has Barry Bonds done or not done that puts him in the same league as Britney Spears?

Fred Pete, it's actually two different examples I use to illustrate two different points. My Britney example is a made-up story to illustrate the difference between fact and law at the trial level that allows me to use the punchline, "oops I did it again." The Barry Bonds example is his actual divorce case, that the appeals court ruled and issued an opinion on, that I follow through a number of research tools.

and someone called you abigot for that? sounds like you made a dry topic interesting.

Conclusion: People are weird.

Also, next time I plan to do something with corporate-lawyer friends, remind me how difficult it is to navigate the "you make bushels of money and I don't" waters when choosing hotels and activities.

Yes, I have been checking Jessica's progress -

There might be a room soon- hopefully nobody will come in in active labor before we get it!

eta: I'm pacing here! Poor thing, there 6 hours and no room at the inn hospital.

Conclusion: People are weird.

and some people may need anonymous smiting. people who are too aware of the power of words like 'bigot' used at random in an educational setting, but too unaware of the long-term impact a good teacher and/or lecture has on their lives, for instance.

::hefts spork::anonymously::