Damn allergies. Even the full-blown Claritin-D hasn’t been keeping up. Let’s see what I missed over the weekend:
– Brett Favre supposedly wants out after the Randy Moss deal fell through. There are no good guys here. Favre is an idiot for thinking that Moss either wanted to play here or would actually play hard here, and Wile E. Thompson (mud) needs to be fired post haste for doing absolutely, positively nothing to address any of the 3 biggest concerns the Packers had (RB, TE and WR).
– The Thompson Twins crushed the competition at the RPW convention Presidential straw poll. Fred, who hasn’t announced yet, took 95 of the 306 votes cast, while Tommy (The Other) took 84. In a bad sign for Rudi, Mitt Romney outdid him for 3rd, 41-35. Oh, and stick a fork in McShame; when Sam Brownback gets 14 and the other unannounced candidate on the straw poll ballot, Newt Gingrich, gets 12 to your 10, you’re done. Also, Scott Walker, who will be running for Milwaukee County executive again in 2008 in an attempt to keep the tax-and-spend-and-tax-and-spend Board in line, crushed the competition in the gubernatorial straw poll, getting 142 of the 306 votes cast.
– In the good news/bad news of fire department, the good news is Tuscarora, my canoe outfitter, survived the ongoing Ham Lake Fire with nary a burn (just a lost shed and fort lost in the first hours of the fire). Same with most of the other outfitters on the end of the Gunflint Trail, and nobody has been injured. The bad is a lot of people lost their cabins and homes up there, and Wilderness Canoe Base got wiped out. Also, the route Oly, his nephew and I intended to take this year ended up in the path of the fire.
