Miscellaneous

1) I'm not sure what irritates me more; Michele Bachman's rantings and ravings (replete with hyperbolic fear-mongering, of course) OR Keith Olbermann's incessant hand-wringing in response to it. Hey, speaking of Mr. Olbermann (his Cornell degree always close at hand), Ann Coulter (who, yes, is often unbalanced herself) pretty much sized him up nicely, "He constantly presents himself like Bertrand Russell."........2) Jon Stewart had a real funny one the other night. He showed some footage of George Bush (2) politicking his Iraq surge strategy. In it, Mr. Bush was arguing for an additional 30,000 troops. He then juxtaposed it with President Obama's speech - Mr. Obama also asking for 30,000 additional troops (for Afghanistan). Stewart, in his inimitable dead-pan style proceeds to query, "So, what is it, folks? Are 30,000 troops the military's equivalent of 'take 2 Advil'?" Laugh? - oh man, did I ever frigging laugh........3) I forgot who said this one, folks. I think it might have been Howard Fineman on "Hardball". In the middle of a discussion on President Obama's 18 month time-line for Afghanistan, Fineman posits this thought, "I think that the Taliban just came up with THEIR time-line; 19 months.".......4) I just thought of another great movie line; Deborah Kerr from "Tea and Sympathy", right before she kisses the much younger fellow - "In the future, when you talk about this - and you will talk about it - please be kind." Delivered as only Deborah Kerr (apologies to Audrey Hepburn, Jean Simmons, etc.) could have delivered it.