Wm. Shatner and why he is launching new one man show

We found this gem in his NPR interview:

On taking risks

"It's very easy to say no to leaving the house. I'm happy with what I got. No, I'm not going there. No, I don't want a new idea — the old idea is fine. No, I don't want a new thing — whether it's a president, an idea, a concept. No. And you're safe. You're right in your little hole; you haven't moved. And what you're doing before is what you're doing now. And that's safe. That's comforting, and you're going to die that way. 'No,' and you're put in your hole and that's fine and you're dead. 'Yes' requires you to move out of that hole. 'Yes' is like those little animals that pop their heads out and look around. But some of them don't go."

Born March 22, 1931, William Shatner is 81 years young....thanks to one of our readers for pointing this amazing fact out to me. Many have given it up by that age, Shatner is pressing on, traveling to new vistas, just like he did on Star Trek. Hats off to Wm. Shatner, he inspires us all.

What is the value of thoughtful legal work when your political or cultural enemies have you in a chokehold?

Dharun Ravi turns down plea deal in Tyler Clementi webcam spy case

That was December.

Friday, March 16, 2012, Ravi is convicted, faces prospect of 10 years in prison or deportation.

Some say his sentence will be light, in any case. We've seen that movie before. Some said that about Rod Blagoevich, disgraced former Illinois governor, who joined another ex-Illinois governor behind bars this week.

"He'll get off light."

But Blago got 14 years, for corruption, more than many murderers and rapists get. (Guidelines here call for 10 years for murder with no prior record. Rape, about the same.)

You have to ask yourself (and I'm no fan of Rod, he should probably be incarcerated just for his bad management practices), but was Blagoevich 40% worse than a murderer?

We have a Republican friend who ran for county office few years back. The Dems got hold of his tax assessments, and boosted him right out of Cook County with a multiple of those around him. Nixon knew something about political enemies. Now, Blago.

If he'd have murdered someone, Blago might have gotten 10 years, on average. But Blago got another 40% tacked on.

Mr. Ravi has political enemies, too, or cultural. And now Mr. Ravi will have two months to think about those enemies, to read countless editorials, blogs, and comments about himself, to sweat it out, and then see the dice rolled on his behalf out of his control. Accepting the plea bargain? That was within his control. Gone now.

Wanting his "day in court" was something akin to doing surgery on himself. Where was his lawyer when he was turning down the plea bargain?

How much is good lawyering worth if you're in the really hot water?

Interesting things to ponder...........

Goodbye Billion, we hardly knew ye

One of our greatest and favorite comeback stories is that of J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter creator.

She went from near penniless to $1 billion US net worth on the strength of her powerful imagination.

Now she's dropped off the Forbes 400 list, for the best possible reason: appears she has given some $160 million of her fortune to charity.

Hats off to J.K. Rowling, read more:

Forbes list: JK Rowling fortune under vanishing spell - Telegraph

Zen saying

Sit, run or walk, just don't wobble.

Bike accident fells Chicagoan, but fights back, walks again

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Superbowl comeback(s)

That late drive by Eli Manning and the Giants was the 7th fourth quarter comeback to win for the team in this season.

Hats off to Manning, his teammates and coach Tom Coughlin. Sportswriters and fans were calling for his head just weeks earlier.

Now, at 65, he had led the team to a Super Bowl victory.

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