141. Captain Jack Boyle was right, "The whole world's in a terrible state of chaos." Maybe not the whole world, but here along the Left Bank . . . .

Late last night a good friend of mine called needing a ride from one part of town to another. Being a good friend, I went and picked them up, but not without some requisite complaining that while they had no need of getting up in the morning, I did. Their response was "Why do you have to get up on Saturday?" Ah, the life of ignorance and bliss. As politely as possible, I explained that today [at that point Thursday] was only the fifth day of the week, a week in which I worked I worked on days two through six. They had no idea it was Thursday and in fact needed the called-for ride to make it to a party which was scheduled for Friday night, which I both both snidely and giddily informed them was 24 hours into the future. They were dropped off at their requested address anyway and I returned home and thus to bed.

If only.

This morning when I awoke the temperature here along the Left Bank of the Ohio River near Milepost 606 was a cool 62 degrees, this on the 20th of July, when the average low temperature is 70. I had opened all the upstairs windows last night (after the storms) before going to sleep, as well as the ones in the stairway, which are effectively 1 1/2 stories up, in anticipation of a cool night. Wouldn't it have been nice if my friend was right and it was indeed Saturday morning, and not Friday. Waking up to 62 degrees on a Saturday morning is about as perfect a way to start a day - any day - as I can imagine.

But it isn't so.

Today's arising was not only greeted by 62 degrees, but also by voices of dissent by those representing us in the legislatures in Louisville and Frankfort. Here in Louisville an internecine dispute is taking place amongst the Metro Council Democrats, dividing them over one councilmember's possible hire of another member's daughter, a hire that didn't happen since the daughter, a Harvard graduate, wisely took off to another state and another job. They've also entered into a discussion about one of the member's sexual orientation as well as the authorship of a very poorly written anonymous letter sent to the local media outlining all of the above. My youngest nephew is due to enrol in Kindergarten - maybe I'll deliver him to 601 West Jefferson Street, the address for the Metro Council, as opposed to 500 West Gaulbert Avenue, the address of his "resides" school, resides being an adjective created by the Jefferson County Public Schools to define where a child should go, as opposed to where they might go. But that is another story entirely, also one which got some play in this morning's Courier-Journal.

In Frankfort, House Democrats are trying to refuse being paid during the governor's politically motivated Special Session that won't end since the Senate Republicans refuse to adjourn for political reasons while the House Democrats did adjourn, for contra-similarly political positions, although to be honest, I think the Republicans, for once, have the upper-hand constitutionally, if that means anything, which more and more it doesn't. I'm trying to remember the last time the Republicans had the upper-hand constitutionally but can't. You may recall the Republican Senate President David Williams' last take on the Kentucky Constitution when he proclaimed the Senate had the power to seat a 22 year old if they so declared such person to be not 22 but 30, despite the Kentucky Constitutional requirement of having attained the age of 30 (I guess in a natural way as opposed to Williams waving some magic wand) to serve in the Senate. Before that he declared a resident of Indiana to be qualified to serve in the Kentucky Senate, despite a different Constitutional requirement that one be a resident of Kentucky to serve in the Kentucky Senate. Having the upper-hand constitutionally is not something one can usually say about Kentucky's Senate Republicans.

I'd like to discuss the national Republican Party's take on the federal Constitution, but that document is even less relevant in an administration lead by Dick Cheney than the Kentucky one vis-a-vis the events in Frankfort. So, we'll leave it for now.

Let's enjoy the weather instead.

Incidentally, I've used the Sean O' Casey line in the title line before - entry #36. I just wanted to see if you were paying attention.