Drinking, judging and watching

Being a water conservationist and a dog owner can be a tricky balancing act. In a segment of the HBO series Six Feet Under a woman living in a cabin in the woods had a sign in her bathroom to wit: If it is yellow let it mellow, if it is brown flush it down. David Frei, in his 18th gig as the on-air commentator for the The Westminster Kennel Club's 131st Annual Dog Show, says that the dogs people see on the show drink out of the toilet.

Given the course of events in the Libby trial it is near impossible to believe the jury will exonerate. Of course that’s what most everyone believed in OJ's trial.

Was I ever wrong back in 1995. My wife and I were in a cinema in Paris (had to purchase reserved seats) and watched several commercials for various products before the movie played. It was a first time experience and I said we would never see this in American theatres. And yet ads in American movie theatres are showing surprising strength, according to The Wall Street Journal, and movie-goers are sitting through them; apparently preferring them to staring at a blank screen waiting for the flick.