Word Association 2/24

Macbeth - With Patrick Stewart, at BAM Harvey. Already sold out. Drat.

Lady Macbeth - Er...Michelle Obama?

Michelle Obama - She loves her country for the first time in her adult life now that her husband, an Illinois State Senator less than three years ago, is about to slay a political dynasty. Now, I'm about the last person to see eye-to-eye with the right wing blogosphere or hate radio, but Jeez, Michelle, no love after you went from the South Side to Princeton and Harvard Law?

Harvard Law - I'll always remember fondly Shay's, a pub in Cambridge, where I found myself one Indian Summer afternoon (Jeez again, 17 years ago??), filleting a Harvard Law Review article on plea bargaining for a graduate seminar on judicial politics I was taking at SUNY-Albany.

Plea Bargaining - An idea for Roger Clemens whose time has come.

"Our time has come" - Mr. Obama has said this a number of times during his countless victory speeches the last several weeks. Now it's a statement of fact that Jesse Jackson said this at one of his convention speeches (either 1984 or 1988). I suppose that's racist, right? Or won't he try that one on McCain?

McCain - OK, OK, the New York Times may have gotten a little carried away with that piece on Thursday. Where is the righteous outrage coming from Hannity & Co. re false stories about Obama being a Madrassa-raised Muslim (lest you think the Brahmin is incapable of defending Obama when the facts warrant)?

New York Times - Has an expanded theater section today in the Arts & Leisure section pointing out that Chekhov's "The Seagull" is playing in the East Village. The Brahmin is interested.

Chekhov - Star Trek's unapologetic Russkie ensign. But how do you explain his line, ridiculing Scotty's fondness for Scotch in "The Trouble with Tribbles," claiming, "It was inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad"...some 400 years after that city was renamed in favor of the one it has always had?

Scotch - Still getting nowhere planning my Scotland itinerary. So many destinations, so little time planned. Gotta get a distillery or two in.

Distillery - OK, this is a stretch. But this is true. A couple of years ago I had to arrange for a deposition of some non-party witnesses in Boston. There is a local court reporting (stenography) agency called Jack Daniels. No kidding. At 4 pm every business day it must be uttered from one Boston calendar clerk to another, "Are you ordering Jack Daniels?" Talk about figuratively speaking...

The Brahmin