My Kentucky Derby picks didn’t go so well, but I’m still rooting for Curlin in the Preakness. It would be kind of nice to have a new triple crown winner, but I’m not crazy about Street Sense. I’ll blog back with the results.
Edit: Congratulations, Curlin! I was right this time; too bad I didn’t bet any money. It was a great race – at the beginning I thought Curlin was out for sure, as he was so far back. The finish reminded me of the 1998 Belmont Stakes, where Victory Gallop defeated Real Quiet by a nose and prevented him from winning the Triple Crown. Unlike in 1998, when I was rooting for Real Quiet, I was very happy with the results this time.
Great news on the Gardasil front: Texas governor Rick Perry has announced he won’t veto a bill repealing his mandate of the vaccine! This means that the young girls of Texas again have some rights to control their bodies and to be treated as something other than sexual objects. Although he finally made a morally correct decision, Perry shows that he resents having to make the right choice:
“I challenge legislators to look these women in the eyes and tell them, ‘We could have prevented this disease for your daughters and granddaughters, but we just didn’t have the gumption to address all the misguided and misleading political rhetoric.’”
How rude. I could easily look such women in the eyes with no qualms whatsoever and tell them that if they were celibate they could have easily avoided getting cervical cancer. I am keeping my fingers crossed that Gardasil mandates in other states will die before they become law.
Unfortunately, the hearing that was scheduled for today in the Neil Entwistle case never took place. I’m not sure when Judge Kottmyer will announce her decision about the motion to dismiss, but I will update as soon as I know.
Since the Kentucky Derby is coming up in about a half hour, I thought I’d share my picks:
1st place: Curlin – he’s never raced as a two-year old, but all of his three starts have been victories by a wide margin
2nd place: Storm in May – a long shot, this beautiful gray colt has only one eye
3rd place: Tiago – Giacomo’s brother, another long shot
