Random stuff

Enforcing the law by day, violating it in an orgy of drunken debauchery by night? You know it's bad when the DC police chief has to come out and remind the visiting police officers that the law applies to them, and that the city will arrest and prosecute police officers who make menaces of themselves. Normally government officials at that level are not prone to being so blunt about their willingness to bust other government employees, especially in law enforcement circles.

The other night there was something on tv about a thirteen year old being hit by a car after the moron ran out in front of his school bus into oncoming traffic without looking. The part that stuck in my mind about it, though, was the fact that the media referred to him as "the little boy hit by a car." You read that right, they referred to a thirteen year old as a "little boy!" There was no other context such as, "he had the IQ of a little boy because he was retarded." You treat thirteen year olds like little boys and girls, and it's no wonder that they behave so stupidly...

We got Rachel her combination wedding band/engagement ring this weekend. It took us a good five and a half months to find something that we liked enough to find something that we were willing to pay the big bucks for. It's three quarter carats of diamond divided among seven diamonds that are set in a channel in the band. The diamonds are part of a series that is exquisitely cut and that really added a premium, but it was worth it!