CFB Week 1 Live Blog / Live Chat

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YAY!!! It’s football season!!!

The party officially starts at 3:30 PM EDT (when USC and ND kick off), but y’all are welcome to start using the Live Chat window (below right) whenever. As for the Live Blog (below left), I expect the frequency of my updates will vary wildly, as I’ll sometimes be holding a baby or chasing a toddler around the house, and other times I may just want to, y’know, watch the game. 🙂 But I’ll post when I can, and will also do a bunch of live polls throughout the games. In addition, anytime Jeff Freeze (@bigfreezer) tweets from Notre Dame Stadium, or Michael Walsh (@uscfootballnews) tweets from the Coliseum, it’ll show up automatically. My tweets will appear, too.

The Live Blog will not necessarily end when the USC and Notre Dame games do. It may take a break, then resume when BYU-Oklahoma starts. Or maybe not. We shall see. Much will depend on the whims of Loyette and Loyacita, and the tolerance of Becky. 🙂

Incidentally, let me know what you think of Zoho Chat, which I’m using instead of Chatroll (largely because Chatroll appears to have randomly deleted all my archives of prior chats). Zoho is one of several available options, so this is sort of a trial run, and I’m curious what everyone thinks.

Anyway… GOOO IRISH, BEEEAT WOLF PACK!!! and FIGHT ON TROJANS, BEAT THE SPARTANS!!! Oh yeah, and a bit later, LET’S GO MORMONS COUGARS, BEAT THE SOONERS!!!

Then and now

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Once upon a time, say five years ago, my ritual on the night before any given Saturday of college football season (at least one with an ND home game) would have been something like this: Go out with friends to Corby’s, have a bunch of drinks, talk football and law nerdery and miscellaneous nonsense, then head to The Backer, have a bunch more drinks, dance (in standard awkward-white-guy fashion) to bad ’80s music, have a blast, sing God Bless the U.S.A., sing the Victory March, go home, get to sleep shortly before 4am. In the morning, perhaps at 10am, wake up to the sounds of Chris’s computer blasting the Victory March. Sing along, then counter with Fight On (assuming USC also had a game that day), then play some more ND music, or possibly something from the “Rudy” soundtrack. Eventually, head out, tailgate, drink some more, go to the game. (Apropos of which, note my new masthead.)

My ritual tonight & tomorrow? Shortly before Loyette’s bedtime, sing the Victory March and Fight On, repeatedly, to both daughters, while holding Loyacita on my lap and bouncing Loyette on my knee, sitting on the couch. (I say “repeatedly” because, at the end of the songs, Loyette kept saying “ageeee!,” which means “again.”) Shortly thereafter, head upstairs to put Loyette to bed. At the tail end of her bedtime routine, sing her two lullabyes: All Hail and Notre Dame Our Mother. Go to bed myself around 10pm. Wake up at 6:30am (or whenever Loyette starts chirping), dress her in her USC Song Girl outfit, and go to the zoo with both girls (and Becky and some friends). Be back home in time for Loyette’s afternoon nap, and the games.

I think this is what Becky means when she talks about the “seasons of life.” 🙂

P.S. My Domer readers will be happy to know that the girls, particularly Loyacita, seem to prefer the Victory March to Fight On.

Revisionist constitutional history

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“What part of the Constitution says you get to take over health care?”

That would have been an excellent question to ask — in 1965. But I haven’t exactly seen a groundswell of conservatives asking it in the 44 years since Medicare became law, calling for the repeal of this obviously unconstitutional program.

Nor, certainly, was this question being so widely asked in 2003, when a Republican Congress and a Republican President massively expanded Medicare with a prescription drug entitlement — one that will, I might add, cost tens of trillions of dollars over the long haul, without any effort to even think about how to pay for it. Yet that, apparently, was constitutional. But when a Democrat does something with health care, suddenly it’s an anti-constitutional outrage!

*sigh*