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By Pat Bataillon
Five to eight guys sit around a table and look at each other with deadpan expressions on their faces. Smoke and alcohol are seeping into their clothes. Some of them are wearing hats and sunglasses. Money is exchanged. The atmosphere is tense. It’s the World Series. Of Poker. And it’s everywhere.
Posted on October 12, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
Last night I watched some pollution legally and literally go down off the coast of Florida. Florida allowed an old Navy aircraft carrier to sink and create a man-made reef. I do not claim to be a marine biologist, but isn’t it dangerous to put a mammoth, thousand-some-ton hunk of metal into the ocean?
I would imagine so, I mean, it’s metal and rubber and all the other do-dads that go into machines.
Posted on October 11, 2006
Pat Bataillon is no longer watching TV on Monday nights until the offerings are improved.
Posted on October 10, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
What a great day on television yesterday. All angles were covered. Baseball and football all day long. Bears win. Movies galore making for great filler. Let me walk you through it.
Posted on October 9, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
I settled in on my couch after work and fell asleep again for an hour. I am sleeping more than usual and I wonder why. I think that I have achieved something that I thought wouldn’t happen for at least a couple more months. I purchased a couch a few short weeks ago and have been waiting to get it broken in. Apparently, the couch has let me know over the last two nights that it is ready for me. I get on the couch and cuddle up with my Coca-Cola throw blanket and next thing you know it’s lights out.
Posted on October 6, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
The hippopotamus – this is what I would want to be if I were an animal in the African wilderness. They get to hang out all the time with their friends in the coolest place in Africa, the watering hole. Where there is water, there are animals from all over, and the hippos are cool with it as long as there is no trouble. When there is a little trouble, the hippos will just kill the troublemaker. Talk about justice! That sets an example for all the other wildlife around the watering hole.
Posted on October 5, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
Alright, let me get this straight: A Republican congressman from Florida is an online pedophile. He works in the Republican House in the Republican Congress under a Republican President. Somehow this
is the Democrats’ fault. It is a damn good thing I am not a political pundit these days because I would be banished from the brethren for not holding this opinion.
Posted on October 4, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
All my coaches in high school taught me to never give up, but Monday night TV has gotten the best of me. I’m just not sure I can continue submitting Tuesday columns based on the previous night’s television selections because they are that bad. Monday nights suck.
Posted on October 3, 2006
It’s got the ease of microwave food, but lets you pretend you’re a real cook.
Posted on October 3, 2006
By Pat Bataillon
I was at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska this weekend for a nail-biter of a game between Nebraska and Kansas. Thankfully, Nebraska won in overtime, so I am good spirits. I get back into town to hear that the Bears have won big over the Seahawks and the Cubs are going to fire Dusty soon. How could this weekend get any better?
It did. Thanks to TV.
Posted on October 2, 2006
