All the Days Dwindle Down

It is September, before a rainfall … no, it is September and time to catch-up.

Let's see. Michael Jackson's death has been ruled a homicide. The coroner thinks his doctor did it with an overdose of one of the drugs Jackson was using to get to sleep. Bizarre. He was buried in the mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery yesterday. "Oh, lay me down at Forest Lawn in a silver casket, with golden flowers over my head in a silver basket."

Teddy Kennedy died the other day. The left went into mourning. The media went crazy again. He went down as "the Lion of the Senate." I remember writing to him year's ago and urging him to pick-up the liberal banner and go forward. I wish I had a copy of that letter. I wonder if he ever read it? He's was buried in Arlington near his brothers. That's quite a family. I guess you can be "quite a family" if you've got money.

Yesterday it was announced that many of the CEOs of the banks that got bail out money are getting huge bonuses that will push their salaries to something like $13 million. That's obscene. Keep that up and there will be a revolution.

Let's see … a woman someplace is pregnant with 12 babies … a woman who was kidnapped as a child about 18 years ago has been found with two daughters of her own by the sex offender who kidnapped her … why didn't she try to get away … and why didn't the sheriff investigate more thoroughly … Bill Cosby came to Detroit to help the public schools … they need all the help they can get … theft, corruption, you name it.

In golf, they're into the FedEx Cup play-offs. Heath Slocum (who the hell is he?) won the first one. He beat Tiger by two strokes after Tiger missed a birdie putt on the 72nd hole. They're playing this week in Boston. I've got Vijay. He didn't make the cut last week. Either did the guy I had. Tiger still leads in the point count.

The Tigers are still in first place in the Central Division. They lead Chicago by seven and Minnesota by five with 29 games left. In those games, they play Chicago seven times and Minnesota three times. That will tell the tale. If they play their final 29 games with the same winning percentage they have now, they'll be tough to beat.

In local golf, I've been playing fairly well of late. I've had scores of 75 and 77 in Coscarelly's League. We scramble the drive so I get a break when I hit a crummy one and we're usually on all the par threes. Yesterday at Lilac Brothers, we used 11 of my tee shots and I won closest to the pin on two of the four par threes. That's when I shot 77 (38-39). At Rasin River and Taylor Meadows (where you play your own ball) I've been in the low 80s pretty consistently. Now watch it all go to hell.

The days are dwindling down … to a precious few.