Electric Josh

Pres
A lot of the Presidents have been cousins. For example, FDR and Richard Nixon are 8th cousins, once removed, which, I would think, makes it much less meaningful that Bush pere and Bush fils are both 10th cousins of Herbert Hoover. Bill Clinton, unsurprisingly, isn't related to any of the other presidents. What does it say about me that I stumble across this stuff?
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War
More Get Your War On for you to enjoy. "Why is Afghanistan so far behind in registering voters? Don't they know they've gotta be a democracy by June?"
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Mad River
This is why we will move back to Vermont someday. Saturday saw Mad River Glen with every trail open, hardly any bare patches at all, no ice, and 50 degrees. The sky was cloudless and the lift lines surprisingly short. The moguls were in good condition, and I surprised myself by somehow finding the stamina to hit the bumps most of the afternoon without collapsing in a winded, dehydrated heap. I even found some of my old form on the bumps. My back feels as fabulous as it did every weekend from junior high through grad school. Just a wonderful day with my dad and sister and an old family friend who is a ridiculously good skier, and who managed to have such a good time that he broke both skis, like matchsticks, just in front of the bindings. I'm not completely sure I understand why people, once they've driven to Vermont, bother skiing anywhere else. What a lucky boy.

Furthermore, those of you who happen to be my wife would have shared my enthusiastic appreciation of a seven-year-old who, with her mother watching nearby, was were hitting the moguls on Fall Line (roll over #27 near the upper left of the map) at least as well as anyone else I saw all day. One hopes that this cute baby will find herself so lucky as to be bombing down Fall Line so elegantly someday.
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