I am still around! Have just been fighting a chest cold for the past few days and coupled with "real" work, I thought best to keep the whining to myself.
I guess I should chime in about Dubya's State of the Union speech since that seems to have been a pretty popular blog topic of the week. Not much to add to the other blogs that I have read, you either love it or hate it depending on which side of the political fence you fall on ... obviously I was on the "non-love" side. The closing of the speech was the absolute clincher... steroids=bad, sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers=bad, "activist judges"=bad, sanctity of marriage=good, prisoner re-entry initiative=good. So even though I have "dignity and value in God's sight," my right to liberty and pursuit of happiness apparently falls somewhere below ex-cons.
On a totally different topic...have been tuning in to tennis' first Grand Slam of the year... the American...errr, I mean Australian Open on ESPN. It is the same quibble I have with pretty much the majority of US television tennis coverage - you would think no one is playing the tournament except for Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, and Venus Williams. I know it is all about ratings...but heck, if someone is tuning in at 11pm EST to watch the Australian Open I am guessing they are a tennis fan who doesn't need to be lured into watching some American thoroughly rout some teenager from the Czech Republic or Russia.
Okay to end on a positive note...something "American" and "Beautiful"... I am still getting through VH-1s "100 Hottest Hotties" series... once I get through it all I will share my own revisionist list. But I have to tell you right now... something is seriously wrong if Matthew McConaughey is way down at #72!
Quick P.S. -- Just read that my favorite sitcom Scrubs is being moved off of Thursdays since American Idol trounced The Apprentice on Wednesday... NBC Thursday is now.. Friends, Will & Grace, Apprentice and ER... with Scrubs moving over to Tuesdays at 9:30pm EST... up against one of my other faves ...24... damn you the Donald and NBC!!
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