The onset of Daylight Savings Time threw a monkey wrench into our daily 6:00 AM roundtable. It just seemed too early, too dark and too cold to get to Hope on schedule.
Today, I did improve and arrived at 6:15. Josh Rugby, the sports writer, beat me by a minute and, of course, Hiram and Faith had been in place since 5:30.
Hiram was ranting a bit about 'undecided' candidates. "Its kind of expected that Newt and Al Gore would hang back, but why should Senator Hagel and former Senator Thompson have press conferences to announce that they 'don't know' whether they are running? Procrastination is not my game. As someone named Bush once said---"I'm the decider."
That was a good point and Faith brought up another. "If Fred Thompson leaves Law and Order for a higher calling, who will be the Big Apple's new District Attorney?" She answered her own question. "Of course, Jack McCoy. He has been an assistant for over ten years and deserves the promotion."
"Is that a promotion?" I asked. " The DA speaks only 5 or 6 lines per episode while the Assistant DAs carry the show." It is amazing how we can mingle real and fictional people, merge true facts and fake ones, and consider it all to be genuine and authentic, as long as we are entertained.
Josh had another idea. "I would bring back Abbie Carmichael (Angie Harmon) and make her the new DA. That would help the ratings and show that there is no glass ceiling holding the women back. Jack McCoy would have to adjust to the new boss, whom he previously ordered around. There would be some, hmmm, tension."
Slowly, we drifted to another subject as Josh started complaining about several very good basketball teams who failed to get an invitation to the Big Dance. Hiram interrupted and reminded me to call his brother, Steve, and for us to make haste in preparing a campaign song.
By 6:45 AM, it seemed that we had solved at least a few of the world's problems.
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