could they not have picked a better theme for the alzheimer’s party?

we just had one finish high school and we are starting anew with the son. not even a year off to relax – great family planning there. he’s at the same school that i started at and i saw a couple childhood friends bringing their young ones on the first day of school too.

as of noon today, there has been no call from the office about marcos being involved in some physical altercation or trying to pilfer the supply cabinet of the teacher.

the giants could not complete a sweep of the cincinatti reds today at att park.

the doyle clan took caltrain up to the game for an end-of-summer family outing before school starts next week for the kids. we had a good time, but couldn’t stay for all 12 innings of the game, which the giants eventually lost. the boys liked the train ride, but maybe less than i thought. next time we’ll take the ferry into the game.

i still have faith in madison bumgarner even though he killed my fantasy stats today. on the flip side, joey votto hammered the giants today and he also is on my fantasy team. for all of his production (4-7, 2HR, 4RBI) i gave a discreet fist pump to myself so as not to anger the surrounding giants fans.

suddenly our dunking pictures from back in the day look pretty amateurish compared to these kids enjoying their summer break. if only we had a pool and a video camera (and balls) when we were younger.

marcos masters the photobomb. i was going to take a picture of mom walking back with the baby and he jumps up to get a face in.

urban dictionary defines the photobomb.

the recent ruling by us district judge vaughn walker has lifted the spirits of lots of folks around here in california and the bay area, more specifically. his arguments in support of same-sex marriage were pretty solid and i hope that the 9th circuit court of appeals will not stick their noses into the issue and let his ruling stand.

of course, conservatives are up in arms about the whole thing saying that it destroys the sanctity of marriage, etc. just about everything the right-wing says these days seems so at odds with what i believe in, this included. let people get married if they want! they’ve been doing it in other states for a while already and there has been no apocalyptic moment where their state gets sucked into some religious vortex for allowing this.

if you do not like same-sex marriage, then don’t marry someone of the same-sex! if you do not like chinese people, then don’t marry a chinese person! but, just because you do not like chinese people, you can’t say they can’t get married. you know, we used to make black people sit at the back of the bus, but now they are allowed to sit anywhere on the bus. of course, black guys still tend to sit at the back of the bus. maybe they have not yet heard about rosa parks? there is an entire outkast song about her, but i digress.

anyway, it’s stuff like this that makes me want to become a lawyer. former solicitor general ted olsen had this to say:

chris wallace is like a little league baseball player compared to albert pujols there, like chau pham compared to chau nguyen on the links. ted olsen has argued tons of cases in front of the supreme court of the us, and chris wallace thinks he can break him? i would like to see ted olsen take on fellow fox news failures bill o’reilly and glenn beck so he can shame them into retirement.

that’s all for now.

i wish i could have a recurring segment to post up clips of jon stewart’s daily show. this guy is the voice we need to drown out that fox news bullshit that a lot of people listen to.

SWEEP! the giants are now 6.5 games behind the giants after the sweep in san francisco over the weekend.