tour de france. wimbledon. sports from around the world!

i am reading this book dragonfire which has elaborated helpfully on the cover - a novel - because you would not want to confuse this book with any actual factual books about dragons such as dragon handbooks or care of dragon instruction manuals. those would of course be shelved in an entirely separate section of the liberry. hmm... i just now clicked over to the dewey decimal classification system to enlighten you as to where the dragon handbooks & instruction manuals would be shelved, and blimey if the ddcs doesn't take up 4 freaking volumes! the intro alone is 3freakin7 pages! at any rate, you'd find the dragon books in a section such as "Obedience training (pets) - 636.088" or somewhere between "Deer - 599.65" and "Elephants - 599.67". the ddcs doesn't list factual actual dragons - it only lists them in the fiction category, and i'm really not sure why.

steve mcnair - former titans qb - was shot & killed yesterday, along with his 20-year-old girlfriend. turns out they've been dating for several weeks, although i am not sure "dating" is the appropriate term for what a man does with a woman when that man is married to another woman. i do believe that is called "catting around". so this girl worked at dave & busters, and mcnair was known to patronize d&b with his pals and his family, and he picked up this girl and started "dating" her. he co-signed for her cadillac escalade, and he was a passenger in this vehicle when she was pulled over for a d-u-i last week. [she reportedly told police she was not drunk, rather she was high. bright of her to clarify this, eh?] all this is coming out now - the co-signed loan, steve's presence in her car, her limo rides - which goes to show you that as much celebrity news as there is in circulation, there is much celebrity news that remains undercover.

mcnair was known for being a family man who contributed much to various charities - a well-liked, easy going, small town boy who made the big time through hard work & solid ethics. was this girlfriend someone about whom he was serious? she told a friend that she & steve were going to be married -- but that's doubtful, eh? more likely this was one dalliance among many. the complete cover-up from friends to police to car salesmen, the available condo, the wife out of town... no, this would not appear to be steve's first rodeo. so, mcnair's a womanizer - how does this affect his legacy of being a leader on the football field and in the field of charitable giving? also, what does it say about the lifestyle of his friends - that they take this behaviour in stride - are they all also living this way? is it just common among professional athletes to have wives & girlfriends?

what are the morals of people today? do folks believe in commitment & monogamy? and in the bigger picture - what is the definition of cheating & stealing? what's acceptable & what's across the line? where is the freakin' line, anyway?

::sigh::

the care & feeding of minor dragons would seem easier to understand than the foibles of humankind.