Morning Coffee (15)

Morning Folks;

I trust that you all had a good Thanksgiving, with whomever and wherever you might have been. Mine was wholly uneventful. Coffee's been brewed and I'm ready to start the day…then start the weekend.

Where to start? How about saying that Iran's WMD program has been shut down by a powerful entity. Yeah, that's right, their soccer team has been banned from playing World Soccer by FIFA. You didn't think I was talking about their "peaceful" nuclear program did you? Nothing, not even the all-powerful UN can stop that. But it's peaceful. Trust me. How can you not believe a guy who ends every sentence with "Death to the Zionists?" This Ahmedinejad fellow is a lot like Cato the Elder, who at the end of every speech to the Roman Senate, whether it was about agriculture or aqueducts, "Ceterum conseo Carthaginem esse dalendam." Moreover, I advise that Carthage must be destroyed. Except Ahmadinejad says it in Farsi and substitutes Zionists for Carthage. Anyway, FIFA banned Iranian participation because of government interference in their soccer program.

The poisoned Russian "spy" apparently died yesterday. I was almost thinking that he was going to pull through it until he suffered heart failure the other day. But, he remained defiant till the end, uttering, "The bastards got me, but they won't get us all" in an interview just a few hours before he died. It may be that he was not poisoned by thallium. Perhaps they will never know what poisoned him.

Something to really think about: the College Republicans at Boston University went ahead and made a scholarship for people who are at least one-quarter white. I find that very interesting. Several on campus groups are very offended. Admittedly, the College Repubs did it with the intent to stir the pot and to get people to discuss racial preferences. The application for the scholarship even states "We believe that racial preferences in all their forms are perhaps the worst form of bigotry confronting America today." BU is not the first school to offer a scholarship like this: Roger Williams University offered a $250 whites-only scholarship a few years ago. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I think it's an issue that needs to be discussed, but in a calm, rational way. Probably not though.

Word of the Day: Spoonerism (noun): Th transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words. This word comes from Rev William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), who apparently did this a lot. How about some examples, people? Let's see if you're awake yet. Best example will be posted in Monday's edition.

On This Day in History: Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species (1859). And the world was never the same.
Also, if anyone cares, Mystery Science Theater 3000 debuts on a Minneapolis UHF channel (1988).

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." - Revalations 6:8 And that's likely the last time I will have a biblical quote in the Morning Coffee. But Revalations chapter 6 is about the only thing of interest to me in the entire novel. Sometimes, I ride a pale horse.

Everyone have a good weekend. Enjoy your offtime, for those that have it. See you on Monday.