One Bombshell, One Dud

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Right after a meeting with some potential new clients today, I retrieved a voice mail left during the 2:00 conference. It was another robo-call from Emily's school district. Since the weather was fine and it was so late, I got a bit nervous as I listened on, and for good reason:

Someone left a written bomb threat at her school late this morning.

They evacuated the kids to the college campus across the street, and the resulting search produced nothing, so they returned for a couple of delayed 15-minute periods and the last couple of classes cancelled altogether.

We're still a bit concerned about why they waited close to two hours to get word out to us, but I'm sure they factored in the panic that would have been heightened by hundreds of type-A helicopter parents showing up to rescue their baybees.

Everyone's fine, other than from having to stand out in below-freezing temps for quite some time until they got the full evacuation under way. I hope they catch the culprit(s) and subject them to what someone in MAD once described as the cruelest and most unusual of capital punishments: being locked in a room and forced to watch Brady Bunch reruns. Alone.

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I got to see a little of Roger Clemens's sneering face at the Congressional hearings today, but it was during the car trip after that, on the way to my appointment, that I made a connection apparently lost to the entire baseball media. The Toronto team doctor who was at the heart (or, rather, the buttocks) of the controversy offered one of the most damning bits of evidence against Clemens's claim that he was only taking vitamin injections during his time there. The reaction to one of those shots, the doctor said, was one he had never seen in more than 1,000 administrations of vitamin injections, but was far more consistent with a bad steroid reaction.

The sports show mentioned the doctor's name. I recognized it. It was a former member of the New York Mets who, I knew, had gone on to a career in sports medicine after his playing days were over.

I believe this is referred to as a "scoop." I also believe, from the thunderous applause silence it's generated on my other blog, it may also be referred to as "dull."

Comments

[aaacck.livejournal.com]

well, all I have to say on the matter is that if I had the power, I'd oust every congressperson digging their noses into sports leagues' issues. I don't condone the behavior, I don't oppose investigations, but let the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, etc deal with this. Congress should be spending their time on more important issues, like health care, education, Iraq, and forgiving my student loans!

Okay, so the last one is a bit facetious, but come on! Is this really a congressional issue?

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Bombs threats were common in the Spring at my high school. When the weather breaks, young boys' hearts turns to throughts of getting out of school...and the phone calls to the office would begin. All 1400 of us would be shuffled out to the football stadium while Kingsport's finest and their dogs searched the school. It was good for at least an hour out of class. If they found nothing, the parents weren't even notified at all. Truly sad that we were all so blase about it.

I watched most of the hearing today. If Roger Clemmons had been my client, I think I might have bitch-slapped him right then and there. I've never seen a worse testimony, and I've been a social worker called to family court!