Programming Note

I just wanted to inform my colleagues of some inside information that I've been able to come up with. Get this. CBS will in fact be coming out with yet another game-show this fall. It'll be emceed, though, not be a traditional host, but by the veteran actor, Mr. Ned Beatty. Early indications are that the show will be entitled, "Let's Make a Squeal".............sorry

Cockroach Jounalism X2

Here it is, folks, ANOTHER LIE! This time, though, damned if it isn't a real doozy.....Get this. According to the intrepid one, Mr. Bartlebee, I have consistently been a champion of that right-wing rabble-rouser/film-maker, James O'Keefe. His specific charge is that I've been heralding that ACORN expose of his and, yes, slandering ACORN as well. Well, guess what, folks. He's full of bull-crap. In fact, I don't think that I've ever even written once on the incident. Yes, I have done a piece that was critical of ACORN. But it had absolutely nothing to do with O'Keefe. No sir. It only had to do with ACORN's hypocrisy relative to minimum wage/unionizing (i.e., championing these concepts for most workers - boldly ignoring them when it comes to their own folks). Not that I expect an apology for any of this, of course. This, in that, nada, it simply isn't a part of his make-up - apparently.

Take a Piece of Advice and Call Me in the Morning

Maybe it's about time that the Republicans started listening to David Frumm. This, in that, yes, Mr. Frumm (who I initially didn't care for in that it was him who allegedly penned that stupid "axis of evil" talking point) appears to be one of the few folks from that side of the aisle making sense these days (this is not to imply that the Dems have been all that cogent, either). Especially adept he's been in articulating just how debilitating (to the party and to the country) all of this obstructionism has been. He feels that the Republicans should have been far more engaging throughout this process (yes, I'm referring here to health-care reform). This, I'm saying, as opposed to the flat-out rejection of a bill that in many ways was similar to a) the Republicans' own bill from 1993, b) Mitt Romney's Massachusetts plan, and c) the bipartisan Wyden-Bennett plan from, well, just last year!!..............................................................................................I mean, don't get me wrong here. The bill that the Democrats ultimately came up with was flawed (I personally support Ezekiel Emanuel's plan of vouchers and health boards) and, yes, because of that, I can totally see having some opposition to it. But come on, roll up your sleeves and try to make it better. Don't just go around trying to make the President look like an idiot. All that that does is make you look stupid.

New Wide Receiver's Society

Joe Watson (Davie High, Mocksville North Carolina) is one of those gridiron stars who, in the past, would have never even given Duke University a whiff. Now, NOW, not only has the 6'3" 215 pound speed merchant taken a look at Duke, he's verbally committed to them. This isn't to say that Watson had had an overabundance of ink. Other than Duke, only the University of Kentucky had extended him a scholarship. But, at least from what I can gather, the interest was getting high and, yes, it was only a question of time before other schools such as Wake Forest, Syracuse, etc. started courting. He IS that good. I'm telling you folks, if the people of Durham can 1) stay patient and 2) retain their coach, David Cutcliffe, they just might have more than college hoopsters to brag about.

Tea Stains

While I agree with you folks (yeah, I guess that I'm talking to liberals on this one) that Palin would more than likely be a disaster as President and that, yes, there is in fact a lunatic fringe element out there in her audience, I'm not so sure that I can go as far as to tar an entire movement. Just like I wouldn't tar the entire civil rights movement over some of the nastiness that Sharpton and Farrakhan have said....or the entire anti-Iraq War movement for all of those "Bush is a Nazi" signs that were utilized. People STILL need to be judged as individuals (a central tenet of liberalism, no?), I think.

A Not So Beautiful Mind

Hadley couldn't even find his way from hand-tools to the carpenter shop. And the fact that he continues to lead such a purposeless (or maybe the son of a bitch has an excess of purpose - it's very difficult to process, never mind decipher) existence - that, as well - it has to be a hindrance. Of course, the way that Mr. Hadley stays stuck at that dreaded concrete (as opposed to formal) stage of "operations", all of it; the repetitiveness/predictability of his buffoonery, etc., really shouldn't come at all as a surprise, now should it?

Happy Meals For Adults

One of the things that tends to bug me about conservatives/liberals (the much more doctrinaire ones, I'm saying) is that a large chunk of them tend to be conservative/liberal on virtually EVERYTHING!!!.....I mean, I just don't understand AT ALL. What, pray-tell, is this great connection between drilling in the ANWR/stem-cell research/gun control and, I don't know, abortion/minimum-wage laws/a single-payer health-care system? SERIOUSLY, I ask you! I mean, I don't know about you folks but, me, I would much, MUCH prefer to do my ordering off the menu a la carte - that, and to, yes, totally ignore what the idiot next to me is saying.