Oatmeal and Coffee Dispatches for 6/16/09

I commented to my cat as we sat and looked out the window to the back yard, “A fine crop of young grackles this year, eh Watson?”

“Yes, yes, they taste like chicken, you know,” he replied.

Wasn’t the Brewer game fun last night? Oh sure, I watched the first couple of innings and got disgusted, went away, came back three hours later and the Brewers were rallying. I should stay away more often.

• Mayor Larry valiantly crossed union picket lines to nab a $150,000 lead paint grant for the city. He says that lead paint is most prevalent in homes built before 1950. Why my house was build before 1950 and I haven’t noticed … uh … what was I saying?
• In more important news, the Jazz Series begins again in Cutler Park. Here’s hoping the rain says away.
• And Divino Gelato is expanding their hours for summer. Huzzah!
• In the weekend Police Blotter, somebody doesn’t know that you don’t mess with the King, baby.
• Columnist Victor Davis Hanson tells you that your god Obama, is not all-knowing.
• In Tuesday Sound Off, everybody is right.
• Which brings us to the guest columnist, a member of Sophia, which isn’t an acronym for anything. This group is a member of another group, called Wisdom, which isn’t short for anything either. Each chapter of Wisdom takes its name from a Biblical character. Wisdom, in turn is part of something called the Gamaliel Foundation, Gamaliel being a rabbi who talked the Sanhedrin (of which he was a member) out of killing the apostles, as they had conspired to do to Mr. Christ some years before. You, too, can be a Biblical scholar just like me just by clicking on Wikipedia and it really, really works. Anyway, and I will get to a point here, the columnist is commenting on the debate in Pewaukee over an ordinance which would fine illegal immigrants for being there. He says, “Here we go, the City of Pewaukee Common Council has grabbed the Bible and wrapped themselves in the American flag.” He goes on, “I believe that we need people of faith in our governmental bodies, but I really get uncomfortable when someone cites a single passage from the Bible to support their point of view.”
• Well, Gamaliel uses a Biblical passage on their website to support their point of view on immigration reform. Wisdom uses one on their home page.
• The columnist is just peeved because Pewaukee beat Sophia to the punch.