Have You Heard That The Super Bowl is Sunday?
From the "Two Weeks Is Way Too Long to Hype Anything File", this was an actual feature on ESPN's prime time SportsCenter last night: Stuart Scott was the interviewer and he had Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson as his guest. Before a live audience he commanded Johnson to answer his questions, "as if he were playing in the Super Bowl this weekend." This feature was supposedly inspired by the banality of the actual Media Day interviews from the players actually playing in the game.
What circle of hell are we in again?
"Only Nixon Can Go To China"--Maybe Only Bush Can Wean Us Off Foreign Oil?
In the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Spock informs Capt. Kirk that he is being placed in charge of the Enterprise for one final mission: to rendezvous with members of the Klingon High Command as a prelude to peace talks with the Klingon Empire. When a flabbergasted Kirk asks basically, "why me?", Spock replies calmly, "There is an ancient Vulcan proverb: only Nixon can go to China." Cue big laugh from the audience.
But the line is a bit of a truism and makes a good point--Nixon, the big RedBaiter and anti-Communist, DID go to China and open the way for improved relations and trade that have been critical to the interests of both countries ever since. Maybe Bush's claim that he wants to be proactive in the search for alternative energy sources to "end our dependance on foreign oil by 2025" isn't just a line he threw out there for us Liberals to laugh at. With all the Bush family connections to the bin Laden's and the Saudi Royal Family, perhaps the Bushes can make it in Saudi Arabia's best interests to develop their infrastructure and invest their oil wealth in a new future while the U.S. aggressively moves away from crude oil-based energy sources.
Naw, you're right, it's all just B.S. Are Iraq's oil wells open for business yet?
Bush Really Hates Cindy Sheehan
In fact, she spent the State of the Union address in jail. DC Police and Congressional staff persons say it was because she was wearing an obscene anti-war T-shirt and refused to take it off or cover it up (Sheehan in case you forgot was the mother who lost a son in Iraq and led the anti-war protesters to Bush's ranch in Crawford for a vigil. The entire month he was on vacation, he refused to meet with any of the protesters.) Read Sheehan's version of events here, or on truthout.org.
Tomorrow: I finally talk about those Oscar nominations. Don't worry, I don't have too much to say about them...
Peace.
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