Oh, Kentucky

My dad flipped his lid when he learned I had enrolled in Heath's lone, single-semester, elective "computers" class in my junior or senior year of high school. "Make Big Business pay for its own employee training!" he raged. Once Dad calmed down, he somewhat ironically predicted that IBM would eventually buy and operate all of the public schools in the United States and that it would make typing a required subject every year from kindergarten on. Dad so cracked himself up that he continued with these predictions the rest of the night, at one point suggesting that, through natural selection after generations of focusing on computer screens, humans would eventually be born with just one big eye in the middle of our foreheads.

"Jackie Jones is the Director of Marketing at Barkley Regional Airport"?

"Which side are you on? Which side are you on?"

"... A few more days for to tote the weary load/No matter, 'twill never be light ..."

Speaking of Stephen Foster, ...

Remembering the day "The Vet" stopped the race.

Liberty is amid an interesting decision.

Kentucky's high-school football playoffs resume tomorrow with 24 games among eight teams in each of six classes. Some day, the KHSAA might be determining state champions in archery, dance and lacrosse, too, Ryan Ernst reported in the Cincinnati Enquirer. "We need to get more kids involved," Ernst quoted KHSAA president Julian Tackett as saying. "Every study we've seen tells us that kids who participate in sports do better in school. So why wouldn't you want to add more?"

While not opposing Tackett's point, Mike Fields in The Herald-Leader does sound a less-is-more note with regard to the football playoffs.

Does this mean Sen. McConnell was working to keep Bill Bartleman at The Paducah Sun until a few days ago?

The Lexington tour of "Please Don't Call Me Homeless...I Don't Call You Homed" closes tonight at Lyric Theatre. A release from the office of Kentucky's "first lady" says, "Every year, the Kentucky Housing Corporation, the state housing finance agency, coordinates the Point-In-Time Count of homeless individuals across the Commonwealth. The 2010 Point-In-Time Count of the Homeless identified 6,623 homeless individuals in Kentucky. The count also found that more than 9,800 individuals, outside of Lexington and Louisville, were precariously housed, meaning they live in substandard housing, with friends or family, or were expecting eviction within seven days." On a related note (but only somewhat related, my wife would caution), Business First reported that, "Overall foreclosures in Kentucky were down 29.8 percent in October from the previous month, according to the latest report from RealtyTrac, an Irvine, Calif.-based online marketplace for foreclosure properties. ... Nationwide, foreclosures were down 4 percent in October."

I didn't realize there was a "Jetson," Ky.