Yesterday was the first anniversary of Barry Bonds' either tying or breaking Hank Aaron's career home runs record. No one on this year's San Francisco team has hit a many as 10 homers. So much for them being the "Giants." Which leads me to wonder whether the team should have received an automatic exemption from the steroids ban just to be able to better embody the team's nickname. Maybe Barry Bonds should use that argument as part of his defense. "I had no choice. I had to be a Giant, in every possible way."
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I still can't figure out why the Dubya administration felt the need to trump up a bunch of secret evidence against Osama bin Laden's driver to use (in secret) at the driver's trial at Gitmo. [That's "Guantanamo Bay" to you normal, not-infected-by-being-connected-to-the-military, people.--Ed.] There was no need to subject the driver to torture via rendition or anything else. We have a picture of the driver standing next to Obama--and the driver is holding an assault rifle. Assuming the picture wasn't PhotoShopped, I have to agree with the prosecution's argument that no one who wasn't highly trusted would be allowed to get that close to bin Laden with weapons in his hands. So what's up with all that other crap that Dubya's minions pulled?
Maybe they LIKE torturing people.
Creepy.
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So the Green Bay Packers apparently blinked. Brett Favre has been reinstated by the NFL Commissioner, and he's in Green Bay, and as I write this, the promised press conference hasn't yet been held so that we'll all find out what the Packers organization is doing next. Like we don't have anything else to do except wait to find that out.
The NFL is already playing pre-season games. And college football fall camps have opened. It's 90+ fricking degrees outside! C'mon! The baseball pennant races are just now starting in earnest. It's much too early for football. Excuse me while I go take a nap inside my freezer.
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Does anybody know the name of the singer who's featured in the current Reebok NFL-related T-shirt commercial? I've tried finding out, using "Traveling North" as the name of the title of the song she's singing, but that hasn't worked, so now I'm asking for help. And I'm going to feel really stupid for not recognizing her myself once I learn the answer, aren't I? Oh, well. So what else is new?
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I'm with Lisa Marie Presley. Those "Viva Viagra" commercials make me puke. Her, because she thinks they disrespect her dad. Me, because no one connected to the ads apparently gets the irony of the singer calling himself an "ol' goat." And health plans that jumped all over covering Viagra still won't cover female birth control. Feel free to roll your eyes in disgust. I know I am.
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John McCain has obviously planned his campaign around PT Barnum's admonition that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. He said he wasn't going to run a negative campaign, but so far, all his ads attack Barack Obama--and not even with facts, but with lies and distortions and innuendos. He said he had no intention of playing the "race card," but so far, his most-frequently run ad juxtaposes pictures of Obama with Brittney Spears, Paris Hilton, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower, and crowds of Europeans applauding for Obama. He said he was going to stick to the issues in his campaign, but so far, his tactics are to claim that Obama is either too popular or to thin to be president.
This is perfectly in line with McCain's contempt for us, the voters. He lies about his voting record on a regular basis and expects us NOT to censure him for it. Anyone who does call him on his lies is branded an evil "liberal" member of the press, denied access to McCain's so-called Straight Talk Express, and demonized as just another cog in the machine conspiring to keep McCain from getting favorable media coverage.
Where'd I put my spare barf bags? I'm gonna need more than one or two at this rate!
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