This has been a very weird news cycle for me. There's a guy in England who probably shot his wife and baby and the police in Massachusetts where the crime happened are not trying to get him on a plane back here NOW NOW NOW. Now when I say "probably" I mean he totally did it. You know why? Because frickin burglars, psychos or hit men do not put the bodies under blanket after blanket to hide the bodies from sight. To keep them warm and to do a psychological triple lutz "They're just sleeping. I put them to bed..."
Additionally, some crazy guy on CNN says we're being invaded by Mexico, because some dirty Mexican military types cross the border every once in a while to drop off drugs. Eek! The Mexicans are coming! We haven't beat them down for over a hundred years, so I think we coming up on a nice ass-whoopin'.
And lastly, a comment was tossed off on "To the Point with Marvin Alny" or however you spell his name, by a dude named Tom Donnelly, who is one of those guys who I hear all the time quoted or actually on the radio though I have no idea what the hell he does or who he is. He used to work with the Bush Administration in some capacity and now works for one of those ominous sounding conservative groups called The New American Century. He said, "The goal in Iraq is not to make it safe for Americans to leave. It's to make it safe for Americans to stay there." No one even sighed, or took exception, or asked him to qualify. It's one of the most blatant statements of this American Imperialism I keep hearing about and it just floated right by. I almost had to stop the car. I wanted to call them and be like "Say what now?" But no one ever gets through with an intelligent question or remark. Not that "Say What now?" is particularly intelligent, but I think it is to the point, if you will.
By the way, If you missed the Beat Down of James Frey on Oprah, then I have to say you really did miss something. Oprah can be hard on people, but usually it's dumb emotional stuff. She beat this guy like he stole from her. I was seriously thinking she was going to just reach over and smack him HARD a couple of times. John Stewart did a brilliant piece on that little moment in history. He compared her systematic cutting of him into various pieces, to recent interviews by major networks with Delay, the Pres., and other various important politcal types. Most of them like "It must be amazing addressing the press from the Lincoln Balcony", or "You must find the attention your relationship to Jack Abramoff is receiving uncomfortable."
HAW!
In other news, it seems I may very well be able to donate my baby's cord blood, despite my likely exposure to evil deadly BSE prions in Germany because if they cannot use the blood and stem cells for an actual transplant or donation, they can use them for research.
Saw Dave Chapelle on Oprah today as well. High as a frickin' kite. I don't think he completed a single coherent thought. He was still funny though.
i think you've hit on something there. dr. phil is, these days, asking tougher questions of those he interviews than tim russert does.
the question becomes: how do we lure the evil ones onto these shows?
Posted by: raej at February 6, 2006 01:43 PM