Amusements

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[Update: No Triple Crown winner this year; it was Curlin over Street Sense by a nose.]

First, the funny papers.

Here’s the sports section: Street Sense is the favorite to win today’s Preakness. But if you want to see a guaranteed triple-crown race, watch this:

I don’t think jockey Ron Turcotte used a whip at all. He was just there for the ride.

Film review: If you’re in the mood for a good chick flick, let me recommend “Waitress.” Sweet and tart, just like my mama’s rhubarb pie.

10 thoughts on “Amusements”

  1. Thank you for posting this. I can’t watch any of Secretariat’s Triple crown races without getting tears in my eyes. I remember watching them as a young man. For me the Belmont was and is the greatest of them all.

    My wife’s sorrel quarterhorse looks a bit like Secretariat if I quint a bit and take a few pounds off of him.

    By the way, I really appreciate your blog and read it everyday. Stopping to look at the horses is a nice little break for us political junkies

  2. My wife’s sorrel quarterhorse looks a bit like Secretariat if I quint a bit and take a few pounds off of him.

    Works for me. If you squint a bit a take a few pounds off me, I look a bit like Kate Hudson.

  4. “The rhubarb is set to take off”

    Ah…But the strawberries are in the here and now…(so sweet they make your teeth hurt)

    I just knew I was gonna like Kentucky…

  6. erratum:

    “everyday” should read “every day” I told you I had tears in my eyes.

  7. I don’t really understand the ponies, although now and then I get out to Santa Anita, a grand old racetrack out here. I don’t think it’s on the historic register, but it should be.

    Loved the Todd Umbarger cartoon. That man can draw. There’s even a wonderful Star Trek allusion:

    Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a constitutional scholar!

  8. Who’s bright idea was it to add music to this clip? For God’s sake, the race and the call are exciting enough. The music is a distraction.

  9. Here’s an amusement….

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18759973/

    Newt Gingrich quoting scripture?… how typical. I see he’s earning a chief seat among the hypocrites. I hope any of the graduates who shake hands with Newt have the good sense to wash their hand afterward.After all, there’s no telling what kind of behaviors a lacivious wretch like Newt might engage in, in private, when surrounded in public by a sea of young female flesh. Who knows?.. In keeping with the spirit of St. George, he might have slayed his own dragon before the ceremony.

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