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I was In the US Army a long time ago, in something called a STRAC unit. Here’s what wikipedia says that means. To us it meant we were supposed to be able to pack up all our equipment and arrive at Pope AFB within two hours of being alerted. We never went anyplace for real, but we practiced enough so that when the alert came during breakfast, we finished breakfast before we started packing. Having said all that, I wish someone would explain to me why it takes a week to get a US Navy hospital ship from Baltimore to Haiti. I assume there’s a good reason, but I have no idea what it is. You don’t have to pack a ship. You do have to provision it, but I understand the situation in Haiti is dire, so why not deploy the ship and send the provisions by air to meet it when it gets there?
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If Carlos Beltran or any other professional athlete needs surgery, he needs surgery. But I dont remember any NY Met doing anything important last October, do you? Pitchers and catchers report to spring training on or about February 15th. When do Met centerfielders report?
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Now we have a TV reality show about a family of four in which everyone, including the 14 and 16-year-old kids, eats way too much. What’s next? A reality show about a family that sits around the living room or family room watching TV all the time?
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The other day, the Long Island newspaper Newsday, printed an article in which it described a 61-year-old man as elderly. This led me to three questions: does the 61-year-old man describe himself as elderly; how old is the reporter who wrote that; and how old is the editor who allowed that to go into the paper?
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Would it be too much to ask if when you search Facebook for someone by name the exact matches come up first?
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Which makes you feel better, being happy or doing something to make someone else happy?
