it must have seemed like a slam dunk

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop? ~Woody Allen, Annie Hall



(CANYON, TEXAS) At my first alma mater, which I attended as a freshman and sophomore and where I learned to think, retired bishops and faculty members are making one last stand to stop the Bush library from being built there.

But it will probably be built anyway, just a couple of blocks from the street my roommate and I used to block off with stolen orange pylons so we could sell parking spaces during basketball games at Moody Coliseum.

Meanwhile, my second alma mater-- West Texas A&M-- recently received word that Barack Obama was interested in making an appearance on campus.

I don't have a link here, just a very reliable source that the university refused Senator Obama because his appearance conflicted with a campus event.

A basketball game, in fact.

As we learned back in 1987, basketball fans aren't so hard to redirect. Surely their game could have been put off for an hour or a day or so to give the university community the chance to hear a Presidential candidate.

spacedark