Amusements

Watched "Top Gun" last night, which I had never seen...sort of liked it, very 80s...it wasn't the worst thing, and I did pick up some cultural references, always a plus.  479 on the list, more or less importantly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html?emc=edit_th_20161120&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=31060267

I got a kick out of that one...again, this could be me, but for a party that ran on a platform of ethnic division, and loses on it...well, you don't say.  

I forgot, or, more appropriate, registered incorrectly, that this is OSU/Michigan weekend.  I do wonder what the committee will do if OSU wins and PSU goes to the championship game...and people expect OSU to get the bid.  I've always felt they should go to the hoops model of winning your conference and advancing; hell, this year, you could get a Bama/WMU matchup in such a scenario, which some people would think is pretty cool.  I've also always said that they would never go for it, as the one year WMU beats Alabama...well, there goes the media money.

Finished up Kean's diary of his Civil War years, Inside the Confederate Government, and it was fairly interesting.  One, the guy had a look at the inner workings of the government, and in the diary, at least, he didn't shy from his opinions.  Second, at the end, he has this rant/list of all the parts of the Constitution being trampled on by the Union government, which would be less humorous, if, of course, the whole part about treason and not wanting to be part of said government in the first place...