Breaking News: Summer isn't over yet!

I’m in the final throes of drumming up business for Yale among the Sailors. I gather a couple will put it off until too late, but one does need to get hotel rooms at a fairly early juncture. Last year we got shut out of the local establishments, which ultimately turned out to be a good thing, as we stayed at a nice place a short drive away, and we were spared the dealings with the local New Haven rabble. The town is not exactly Camelot, if you know what I mean. In any case, I’ve got no one yet who’s figured out that our driving there in cars requires them to come up with a driver and a car, i.e. parent judges, but they’ll tumble to that before too long. We’ve even got Horaceman, the superhero without any superpowers, back on board for the season, so next year should be interesting. (Is there anyone who didn’t think he’d be back?)

In this summer of our discontented ennui, I’m sort of disappointed in the lack of anything to complain about over at WTF. Aside from the World championships, which seem a bit of a stretch in terms of generating interest, not much is going on at my favorite website aside from a bunch of birthday notices that allow us to tell O’C that if it wasn’t for him, the world would be a bleaker place and Bush would still be President, and some notices that VBI is coming, unless I somehow missed it and it’s happening already, which is unlikely, given that when they’re in session they usually break into my local TV broadcasts with updates every five minutes, including announcing the homework assignments and what the little darlings had for tiffin that day. O’C says that parents love to keep such close track of their kids. I wonder. I’ve met a lot of debate parents, and a lot of debate kids, and most of the former are happy to wash their hands of the latter after the first novice sleepover, and vice versa. Posting a general daily announcement on the site—All Kids Healthy, Still Think They’re Smarter Than You Are, Check Back Tomorrow—would probably be enough to satisfy most families.