Open All Night

NOTE: If this is going to be read aloud, please adjust your text-to-speech software to reflect a South Boston accent.

Somewhere in a feng shui-ed condo a young ad exec settles into his leather arm chair to bask in his Harvard induced brilliance. You see, he has just received a huge bonus due to his groundbreaking ad campaign that will catapult his company into the “big leagues”. For a mere half a billion dollars, his commercial will appear for a few seconds during the Super Bowl this Sunday.

As he sips his scotch, he turns on his plasma tv only to find that with a few hundred dollars and the cooperation of Boston’s Finest, another ad campaign will have exponentially more impact than all the talking frogs and whining cavemen ever could.

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Two things this week reinforced something that I already believed, namely that children who are part of the middle class or above in the United States are coddled beyond belief. The first was a radio discussion about how kids today essentially don full body armor to ride their bike. The second was the asinine law proposed in California (by a legislator with no children I might add) that parents who spank children under 4 are committing a crime. Both of these are surprising to me, and I am not even an old coot (yet).
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As we welcome in 2007, Half-Baked Schemes Racing’s is also welcoming a new support vehicle with a brand new home page of it’s own. Take a look at our newest member, a 2007 Black Magic MKV GTI

Well, happy freakin’ 2007. Another year has gone by, and I have seemingly managed to become even less productive than in the past. I set a minimalist goal for what I want to get accomplished, and it looks like the 07 will require the bar to be lowered even further.

And, here, on a completely unrelated note, is today’s topic - the “War of the Roses” that is held on a local radio station. It is a weekly or bi-weekly (who the hell knows) feature that they have. Presented below for your consumption is what happens in a somewhat accurate chronology, and without a narrative bias (hi MSNBC!).
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