Twenty years, it doesn't seem than long ago.

Twentieth anniversary of probably one of my top Auburn experiences. I bought season tickets from freshman year until I moved too far away to come back every game weekend.
On this trip to Auburn, the loveliest village on the Plains, my family arrived early Friday night to stay at my sister's house. We got up very early to set up our tailgate. The air was electric. I had invited some friends from Tuscaloosa to come on to Auburn they were afraid to come. But I convinced them to come. They had been to games all over the country, but never Auburn.

As my family approached Jordan-Hare the intensity grew as well as the emotions. I attended 17-16 my freshman year in college, the 49-26 game that Connie Frederick faked a punt and scampered around end past the entire Tide, Bo-over the top and even the Lawyer Tillman end around game, none of these had the significance as 1989.

Today thinking about the reasons that Alabama did not want to come still amaze me. Nebraska came, Virginia Tech came, TCU came and eventually Tennessee came in the 70's. I was at that TN game also, none compared to this. Them on our turf for the first time, goodness. I remember many trips to Auburn as a child and an adult, this one was one of the best.

My daughter was 7, she had been coming to Auburn since she was an arm-baby. She is still in awe of that day. The thing that seemed to trouble all of the bama faithful was that they "had to come." I was as happy as all of the other Tiger fans, even at Toomer's. That day was a great one, there will be many more.

I lived in Tuscaloosa for 3 years, we won all three. The only comments I heard were how pleasant the Auburn campus and fans were.

One last memory. When I got back to work on Monday, one of my friends, an Alabama fan (not a graduate), paced and paced around work. We had coffee in the morning, I said nothing. We ate lunch, I said nothing. We had coffee in the afternoon, I said nothing. By the end of that last coffee break, he came up to me and said "Aren't you going to say something about the game? Aren't you going to rub in in? Aren't you going to gloat?"
I leaned back in my chair and passed this along, "I know we won, you know we won, the whole world knows we won, so why rub it in?"

Oh and by the way, you know it took bama over a hundred years to beat us in Tuscaloosa. Yep, memories are a great thing. War Eagle!!!!

Old observations:

Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)

"A friend in power is a friend lost." and this pearl:

"Politics, as a practice . . . has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

Cap and Trade?

Do you actually know what this is?
Most Americans only know what they have been told by pundits and phony experts. In brief Sightline Institure has an uncomplicated explanation of what it is. Wikipedia has another explanation of not only the policy but also some objections.
Funny thing is most conservatives want less dependence on oil, especially foreign oil, but are vocally against this policy engineered to do just that. They imply that this policy will adversely over tax the small guys, however the intention and scope of the policy is to get at the major polluters.
Truth and fiction don't seem to matter with those guys.

GOP OMG WTF?

Recently the GOP put a list of "famous republicans" on their website. The irony of the posting is imaginative at best and deluded at worst. The link to FDL's comments and summary is here: http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/14/how-many-of-gop-coms-republican-heroes-would-be-republicans-today/
The analysis contains the following as prominent members:
Susan B. Anthony: sure in their dreams. If someone believes this they obviously don't know who she is.
Frederick Douglass: At the time of his freedom, maybe. But today with the obvious discrimination within the base, it is very doubtful.
Perhaps the most surprising is their love of Ronald Regan, who liberalized abortion, raised taxes and even signed a treaty against torture. Does any of this sound familiar?
The posting they have on their site is very creative. It reminds me of how they have spokesmen that have things such as these liberal traits: multiple marriages, drug addiction, extra-marital affairs (Lord knows how many times they bring this up) and beauty queens that either have no knowledge or fake body parts. I guess the last two are just another pair of "boobs".