Miscellaneous Thoughts

In addition to yesterday being Veteran's Day (formerly Armistice Day) - it also would have been George S. Patton's 119th birthday... The official drink of the Men's Olympic Figure Skating Team?... I would like to take this opportunity to point out that I picked Johan Santana as the AL Cy Young winner in preseason... Happy birthday to Sammy Sosa (36), Tonya Harding (34), Neil Young (59) and Al Michaels (60)... There has been some controversy over where Yasser Arafat will be buried. The simple solution to this dilemma is to have an open casket in Palestine and then let his followers swarm over his body. You know that they will be grabbing pieces to have as mementos. Within an hour or two nothing would be left and the funeral dilemma would be all over...