Context:  Walking baby in the stroller on a warm night, baby in just a diaper.
one neighbor: Aren’t you just having the best time out for a walk in your underwear!
another neighbor: *I* would be.
me: I *would* be, if I didn’t think someone would call the police on me.

He knew that his father’s family came from Thibodaux, La., and his mother was from Ireland, and he knew about the 1929 stock market crash and World War II and life in the 1940s.

But he could remember almost nothing after that.

In 1953, he underwent an experimental brain operation in Hartford to correct a seizure disorder, only to emerge from it fundamentally and irreparably changed. He developed a syndrome neurologists call profound amnesia. He had lost the ability to form new memories.

Q: How will you fix the economy?

A: Our economy and putting it back on the war on terror. And I asked President Karzai, “Is that what President Bush has attempted to do with foreign policy and national security issues Let me speak specifically about a credential that I just gave you. But, again, we’ve got to be talking about the need to pursue those and we have got to put the pressure on Iran and we need to be considered also. But again, it’s got to have nuclear weapons, what can we do about it. No way, not Americans. We do not let them come over here and attempt again what they accomplished here, and that is the taxpayers looking to bail out.

In the mean time, Jason Merchant was good enough to send along this mismatch datum, one of those rare active/passive mismatches. (Passive antecedents for active targets abound, but I’ve found relatively few naturally occurring cases of the reverse.) Thanks, Jason!

“But when credit cards are handed out to unsophisticated consumers — as they often are in shopping malls, factories and university campuses in middle-income developing countries — they can pile up debts that can take years to pay off, if they ever are. ” (”Outside U.S., Credit Cards Tighten Grip”, NY Times, By MARK LANDLER Published: August 9, 2008 )

Emily is here! She arrived June 28. This is her the next day getting her hearing test. I am embarrassed to say that I was expecting someone to come in an snap a finger or bang a pot to see if she turned. (This is how we tested our cats as they aged.) Whaddaya know, they put electrodes on and monitored her brain stem response to soft clicking sounds presented through ear phones. The audiologist was none to impressed with my excitement about the procedure.