The wind rushed around outside, just a bit short of a howl, and The Boys were settled in near the wood-stove for a long, cold afternoon of reading. Marty grabbed the new issue of Monax Jones (How The Thing You Hate Is Ruining Your World!) and Warren snagged the iPad off the chair.
"Throw a log on half-bro," Marty said to Warren. With a new log safely ensconced in the metal box for wood burning, Warren set about to "reading."
"Why are you wearing headphones if your reading on the iPad," Marty asked. "Why are you wearing headphones! Hey! Warren!"
"What. Oh, right, you figured it out. Well OK, I'm watching cable TV on the iPad," Warren said. "So what."
"What's on," Marty said.
"I can't tell. It's either an old movie on TCM or it's the mid-term election results from the Democrats' point of view," Warren said.
"Oh I know that one," Marty said. "Top of the World."
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| The Boys watching a movie, or election results. |
From The Copy Desk: Loyal readers will remember back a few months ago when Marty predicted the Democrats would retain control the the U.S. Senate. He was wrong, another data point in the case against groundhogs as useful prognosticators. Phree Phil! If you want to predict anything, it's best to use the "wisdom of the crowd" to improve your chances. See this story,
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/04/02/297839429/-so-you-think-youre-smarter-than-a-cia-agent
