Good morning to everyone today. If you're reading this from the office, congrats in dodging the challenging driving conditions present this Monday morning.
Now, I don't mean to get negative on one of the world's most popular sports. but….
While some of you were worried about the roof maybe falling down or standing water greeting you while you opened your door, yours truly had a severe case of cabin fever yesterday, and in the afternoon braved the weather to visit a local sports bar that usually isn't that crowded on a Sunday in late June.
Then I realized that soccer must be on, and it was. England-Italy in Euro2012. 120 minutes of so called action, with two overtimes. All with absolutely no goals being scored. The game was finally decided on penalty kicks.
Sorry, but what a colossal bore!
Okay, on to the news while we wait for the Supreme Court to decide on the individual mandate in the health care reform bill, which we could know about in two hours or as long as three days from now.
Although we missed the Republican shindig on Saturday night, we of course saw President Obama Friday afternoon in Tampa.
We also watched Marco Rubio on Meet The Press yesterday discuss why he never got around to producing that immigration bill that supposedly would address the same policy decision that President Obama's executive order did 10 days ago.
Another presidential contender comes to town in a few weeks. That would be Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson.
And CL's George Niemann has an interesting piece about The Regent over in Brandon.
This article appears in Jun 21-27, 2012.