President Obama didn't win any major awards. I believe he thoroughly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, but it's OK to go a day without anything big.
We're again at peace with the moon. Although I thought it was suspicious that I didn't see it in the sky last night. I didn't freak out, because I assume if we blew it apart it would've been on the headlines.
And Marge Simpson limited herself to Playboy, although she is said to be in talks with Larry Flynt for more.
Why does "The Place for Politics" have a doctor show on in the morning?
I'm not much of a TV watcher in the morning, since I have to work. But once in a while I turn it on, like the other day. And what do I see in place of news and politics, a doctor show! Dr. Nancy.
How much of this do we need? Dr. Phil, Dr. Nancy. I heard Mr. Food was going for his doctorate. So we'll have Dr. Food. And there's another Doctor Somebody and I think there's even a show called "The Doctors." Must be a collection of doctors who couldn't get their own show so they just banded together.
Maybe this is why we're having so much trouble with health care. All the doctors are on TV instead of the office. I knew something was up when I went for my physical and had to step through a curtain like on the Johnny Carson show. And the studio audience did a real groan when it was time for prostate test. Not as bad as my own groan.
My prescription for TV: Get rid of the doctors. Their patients are sick of it.
Walter Cronkitemania is sweeping America now that he's passed on. Fans are lined up outside the Staples Center. His old CBS newscasts are number one on iTunes.
It's weird that once upon a time we had a few TV channels and respectable guys on the news. We really looked up to these guys, Huntley and Brinkley and Cronkite, etc.
If they would've told us one day we'd have 24 hour a day news we would've been as happy as clams. That would have been awesome.
But how has it turned out? We have 24 hour a day news channels and they're wall to wall crap. You can't stand to turn it on because it is wall to wall crap. With just a few exceptions.
We have this scurrilous knave, Beck, who symbolizes all that's wrong with the whole scene. I don't personally watch him (ever) but I've read about him on blogs (and seen a few minutes of clips), so I know he's trash.
Quite a descent. Like that famous evolution progression in reverse. We are Devo.
Seriously, get rid of the news channels and have an hour or half hour every night like we used to. It would truly be progress.
The news is the stuff of all oddballs, all the time. Sometimes I'm seriously wondering if I'm insane and reading it wrong. I very well could be. In which case this won't make a bit of sense, but will be like all the papers flapping on the wall in the movie, "A Beautiful Mind."
President Obama makes a joke about the Special Olympics? I love the guy but c'mon. Does he have a secret plan or is he just trying to feed himself to the conservatives? I see that on the headlines and I have to wince.
World's deadliest spider found in Tulsa, no antidote for its bite, if there is a bite?
A suicide forest in Japan?
Joe The Plumber tells a gathering of conservatives he's "horny"? Of course plumbers are all about pipes and fittings and things. As for sex among conservatives, all I can think of is David Vitter, diapers and hookers. They're a self-loathing bunch and I'm sure their action is very much a dead end affair.
I've been away from the computer most of the day. Then I come home and notice there's been a full day of news, happening with or without me.
It's like Rip Van Winkle. He falls asleep and the world goes on. Or every corpse in town. They're dead and a'moldering and the world goes ahead full steam. You may have an opinion to add to the din, but if you don't ... no one cares.
How could you care? You don't keep track of every sleeping soul and whether he's alert enough to pay attention to the news. There's nothing I know about it. That's a fact.
So what has happened? Michael Steele did something else. He's again threatening the senators who don't toe the line. That's weird. The NFL guy who was found on the boat said the others just gave up and drifted away. That's very fast to just give up. The other guy thought he saw a light and swam for it, without his life jacket. They said he might not know what he's talking about because of the cold he suffered. I'm sure it was a nightmare. Rush Limbaugh wants to debate President Obama. This guy is a total clown. Guess which one I'm talking about.
They had Times Select for a couple years ... and that's been probably less than two years ago ... then it was done away with and the New York Times website became free for all again.
I was a subscriber for a while, but my interests come and go and so I dropped it. It's nice to see it free, but if they feel they need more money and want to charge, that's their business. Go for it.
I'm not a big reader of it anyway. Once in a while I'll catch a column. I'm not too interested in Maureen or Brooks or Kristol, who I understand is now gone. Who are the others? I don't even know. I like the liberal ones, Frank Rich?
The rest of the news sections might be for charge though. And sometimes I see some things in there. I'm having a hard time working up any objection to it, though. Whatever they want to do. It belongs to them. Charge if they want to.
