cold comfort

If you're a fan of the Patriots who is having trouble dealing with yesterday's loss, here's something I heard on the radio today that might help:

A Pats fan was in Vegas at the beginning of this season, drunk out of his mind, and he placed a $500 bet on the Patriots having a perfect season. Odds something like 13,000 to 1. So on Saturday, Vegas calls this guy, wanting to buy him out of the bet for $2.4M. That's million. The guy says "what would I get if they win?" and it's something like $6.5M. So he says no thanks, I'll take my chances.

There, don't you feel better?

My endorsement

OK, it's taken me until just this minute to make up my mind, but I'm voting for Hillary Clinton tomorrow, and here's why.

I decided that I'm going to vote on issues and not the cult of personality, and universal health care is my number one issue this year. If anyone can move us toward that goal, she's the one.

I have nothing against Obama, mind you. If he wins the nomination you can be certain I will vote for him in November. But he's too young to relate to the universal health care issue on a personal level, so I'm voting with age and decrepitude, here!