Religiously litigious

Last night we made our way to the much talked about Cadillac Ranch (or more accurately "The Place We Cannot Name"). Cadillac Ranch is a large and rather cheesy bar with Thursday night Karaoke that I suspect the guests of the Q centre have been keeping in business for the last eight years. Faculty (me) are not allowed to talk about it or encourage participants to attend because this country is so ridiculously litigious.

The Q centre and Accenture cannot have any affiliation with the Cadillac Ranch for fear that someone may come to some harm there and then blame them. We are not allowed to refer to it by name hence we call it "the place we cannot name". I went and asked about the transportation to get there at reception. They had obviously received the same memo and were even more guarded. "Hmmm.... we don't have anything to do with it but I believe there is a private bus company that takes people there in the evenings". As if they haven't noticed the school buses (brought by an enterprising St Charles resident) that have been ferrying the majority of their guests to and from Cadillac Ranch every Thursday without fail for the last 5 years.

I had to hold back on the Karaoke because when I was here two years ago I lost my voice for ten days from an obviously overzealous singing session. I managed to get in a song or two though. Our section (the guys we taught) sang "You've lost that loving feeling" from Top Gun. The Karaoke guy announced it the best song he had heard all evening which is not saying very much considering some of the other more cringe-worthy numbers but an accolade none the less.