KY-37: Nominations Tonight!

I just got this in my inbox today dealing with the 37th House District.

The Democratic Nominating Committee for Kentucky's 37th Legislative District will meet at the Louisville/ Jefferson County Democratic Party Headquarters on Tuesday January 10, 2006 at 9 PM. Any person wishing to be considered for an interview and/or nomination should submit a letter of intent to local Democratic Party Headquarters no later than 8 PM Tuesday January 10, 2006. Such person must meet the legal requirements, including residency, to run as the Democratic candidate in the special election for Kentucky's 37th Legislative District.

Good luck to any candidate that files!

Senator Lieberman has not made up his mind on Judge Alito but a filibuster is possible.

Walter Hawkins delivers the KentuckyDems.com response to the State of the Commonwealth.

Listen up, it's time to move on against the miserable loss to Kansas and wake up. We can still run the conference, win the SEC tournament, and have the chance to win the NCAA. It's possible. We have the talent but we must defend the perimeter and box out. Let's go Cats! Don't believe me, then read Mark Story's article in the Herald-Leader!

On Dec. 7, 1974 -- a date that shall forever live in Big Blue infamy -- Indiana hung a humiliating 98-74 basketball defeat on the Kentucky Wildcats.

Not only did Bob Knight's Hoosiers humble Joe B. Hall's lads with their play, but in a famous in-game incident, the IU coach also cuffed Hall upside the back of the head.
Of course, basketball historians will note that later that season, the same Kentucky team beat Indiana 92-90 to advance to the Final Four.

In January 1978, Alabama embarrassed an undefeated and No. 1-ranked Kentucky 78-62 in Tuscaloosa.

The same Kentucky team that two months later won the school's first NCAA title in 20 years.

In the Orwellian year of 1984, another undefeated UK squad went on the road in the Southeastern Conference and got drilled by 19 and 12 points in back-to-back games at Auburn and Florida.

Yet that Kentucky team played in the Final Four.

Even the probation-riddled 1989-90 Wildcats who famously got throttled 150-95 at Kansas came back later that season to score one of the sweetest wins in UK's epic basketball history.

In the aftermath of the rubble left in Lawrence that day, who would have ever dreamed that Derrick Miller, Reggie Hanson, John Pelphrey and Co. would beat the Louisiana State of Shaquille O'Neal, Stanley Jackson and the player formerly known as Chris Jackson?[...]

No recruiting class in the Tubby Smith era came in with the hype of Rajon Rondo, Ramel Bradley, Joe Crawford and Randolph Morris.

Rondo, Crawford and Morris were all McDonald's All-Americans; Crawford and Morris were both ranked by Rivals.com among the Top 10 high school seniors entering college basketball in 2004.

With the return of Morris from NCAA eligibility purgatory tonight against Vanderbilt, the Big Four are at last together again.

Billy Crystal was the first choice to host the Oscars.

"I'm so tired at the end of 700 Sundays," Crystal told the Los Angeles Daily News. "I didn't want to go from that into a meeting where I'm saying, 'Give me Brokeback Mountain jokes.' It seemed so not what I wanted to do."

700 Sundays, currently playing in Los Angeles, concludes its limited engagement Feb. 18. It previously played in New York and Chicago.

Stewart said he is pleased to have the chance to host the Oscar's, but speculated there were alternative motives to his being chosen.

"As a performer, I'm truly honored to be hosting the show. Although, as an avid watcher of the Oscars, I can't help but be a little disappointed with the choice. It appears to be another sad attempt to smoke out Billy Crystal," Stewart said last week.