• When I was a kid, today was the day that was celebrated as “Veteran’s Day.” The armistice which ended WWI was signed on the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. That’s a lot of ones. I still find it odd that we move “special” days around to accomodate people’s desires to have long weekends. However, I suppose overall productivity for the week is higher if you have a three day weekend compared with having a day off in the middle of the week.
  • Also when I was a kid everyone knew veterans. If you didn’t have a veteran in your immediate family, you certainly had one (more likely several) as uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents, etc. It is my feeling that these days many kids growing up have never met a veteran of actual wars. I consider this a mixed blessing.
  • The reaction of the mainstream media and the nation’s “elites” to the Ft. Hood act of terror is as predictable as it is despicable. To hear our Homeland Security Secretary react to the shootings by telling kids in a Muslim school that the USA would focus on making sure there is no “backlash against Muslims” is nothing but evidence that this country is no longer a serious country. We can’t even address an actual fatal threat in our midst without bowing and scraping before the false god of “diversity.” Frankly as long as this is our reaction to such events, we deserve to have our asses kicked on a regular basis.
  • Perhaps the most cynical and disgusting single thing to have happened after the Ft. Hood massacre was to hear Obama’s despicable exhortation to Democrats in Congress to compare their vote on Health Care to the deaths of our innocent soldiers. I have rarely heard such a blatant attempt to use a tragedy to promote a partisan political agenda. One can only imagine what the worldwide outrage would have been if Bush had done anything remotely similar.
  • Hillary Clinton has been perhaps the least effective and least visible SecState in my lifetime. If her career in politics isn’t over when she leaves this office, I will be amazed. In reality her gross incompetence has been simply stunning.
  • I’ve been watching “Stargate:Universe” for three or four weeks now, and it sure seems like the driving force behind their plot development is how to keep the cost of set design, special effects and costumes as low as humanly possible. I’m not sure if this is a trend in Hollywood or just this one show.
  • I remember when Monday Night Football was actually entertaining. I pretty much tune out the commentary now. To call Ron Jaworski, John Gruden and Tony Kornheiser(?) boring would be to vastly inflate their appeal. John Gruden seems to be deliberately pantomiming John Madden in the way he sits, the way he talks and the way he tends to flail his arms around as he talks. I know Gruden is a football genius and all, but I don’t believe it is possible to be more irritating and shallow as a commentator. Plus he’s ALWAYS wrong, and the more forcefully he says soemthing, the more wrong he turns out to be. Jaworski is like that guy at your high school lunch who was always trying too hard to join the conversation. You know, the guy who is always leaning in too far, laughing too much and trying too hard to be oh-so-clever. Kornheiser may as well not even be there. Even when he comments on something I can’t remember what he said ten seconds later. I truly don’t even listen to them, they don’t improve the game, they make it less enjoyable. I can’t imagine how the network figures they deserve the millions of dollars they are paid. And the female reporter? I don’t even know here name, but more than half the time I can’t even hear her, and when I can hear her she makes Jaworski sound brilliant. Which takes some doing. Why would anyone run after a coach at halftime and ask them how they feel after falling three touchdowns behind? Is that reporting? Is there any sports fan on earth who can’t give you exactly the same answer that head coach is going to give? Isn’t the first rule of reporting not to ask questions you know the answers to?
  • Andre Agassi was married to Brooke Shields and apparently lusted after Steffi Graf. What am I missing? I mean Steffi isn’t bad, but Brooke friggin’ Shields?
  • So, speaking of female athletes, who was hotter, Katarina Witt or Gabriella Sabatini? And am I the only one back in the 80s who thought Tonya Harding was pretty hot? What a waste…
  • It occurs to me that I haven’t taken my family out to eat at a restaurant in months. I think I’m going to have to do that this weekend, just for fun. Is there a movie worth seeing this weekend?