Blogger Discusses Military Morale

Last month the last of the famous SeaWolf class submarines was built and commissioned for service. It was given the name the USS Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter is an extremely nice man. He avoided doing anything remotely scandalous during his presidency. He deserves some sort of recognition for such things.

However, Blogger holds the position that being an ex-president should not automatically mean that naming a $3.2 Billion dollar piece of military equipment after you is appropriate. Names mean something.

Our ships are supposed to remind our soldiers and those who see them prepared for war of America's great history in battle. Jimmy Carter does not help the cause.

Have the British named a battleship after Chamberlain? Uh huh. Not quite.

Naming a submarine after Jimmy Carter is expanding the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy to the name of their submarine.

Sailor 1: what ship do you serve on?
Sailor 2: I'm not at liberty to discuss that.
Sailor 1: Oh, I'm sorry Sailor, carry on.

Blogger points out that you can do something to try to keep this sort of thing from happening in the future.

Vote Republican.

Oak Brook Athletic Heroes of Softball

Blogger played in his first softball game with the Clayton Campbell assembled Bakersfield Maggots. Clayton Campbell IV (Affectionally referred to as "C4") moved into Oak Brook Athletic Hall of Fame contention with a brilliant hit to right field.

C4 slid face first into third base, distracting the third baseman from catching the ball, then scampered for home.

In a spectacular display of athleticism and heart, C4 dove head first for home plate as the throw home was being made.

We regret to report that he high centered upon the center part of his anatomy and stopped three feet short of the plate, where he was unceremoniously tagged out.

On another note, consistent with the Oak Brook Athletic Mission Statement of mixing the spiritual with the athletic, Blogger successfully prayed the whole game for the ball to not come to him. He managed to avoid touching the ball in the field of play without incurring a single error-a significant accomplishment for Blogger in his current athletic state.

Blogger Living Bachelor Dream Life

Blogger apologizes for his absence. He realizes that his scarcity may have been cause for concern in many circles.

He is happy to report that all is well. Very well indeed.

After signing off at the beginning of March with his last day of work with the Madera Public Defenders Office, Blogger has fulfilling the dream of many young attorneys who want to split time between New York and LA and live a life of excitment and thrills.

Except that it's Bakersfield and Fresno.

And there aren't that many thrills.

Or excitment.


But despite that, Bachelor Blogger is the envy of many while hanging out in Bakersfield (Legal Pad I) and Fresno (Legal Pad II).

In the Bachelor Barrister Mobile he shoots up and down the Hwy 99 corridor listening to books on CD such as Mozart and the Fighter Pilot. He currently works to avoid notorious speed traps for well intentioned busy people intent on making this world a better place but inhibited by money loving, progress stopping, Roscoe P. Coltrane emulating officers of interstate commerce monitoring fame. So far, he has been met with nothing but success.

For this, Blogger is grateful.