- Way to man up, show some intestinal fortitude and stand strong on not giving more war funding to the unjustified, wrong, hideous and absurd spectacle of a war that our A-hole-in-Chief W. is waging in Iraq, congressional Democrats. Yes, you promised to take a hard line on giving that idiot more money to further propagate his own personal Vietnam, then you folded like a card table. Republicans threatened that unless Dems relented and forked over billions more for an absurd war, they wouldn’t get the votes from the GOP they needed to pass a bill funding government operations for the coming year. So even though Republicans are the minority in Congress and even a few of them don’t support this war, the ones who so ignorantly do have forced the passage of a bill giving more play money to W. with which to further the most idiotic war in U.S. history. And no, Democratic leaders, I don’t accept your excuses and rationalizations as to how you allowed this to happen. “Republicans, Republicans, Republicans,” whined Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. “The real problem here is the president and his Republican backers who have taken an increasingly hard-lined position.” Then you know what you do, Sen. Harry Reid? Take an even harder line and say f’ you, Mr. President. America and its government are prepared to suffer other indignities at the expense of ending this war, so either you start bringing our troops home or there will be no financing bill passed. Instead, we have Senate Republicans, dammit, attaching tens of billions of dollars in war funding to a $500 billion-plus government-wide spending bill and paving the way for the continuation of this embarrassment. It’s merely the latest setback for Democrats in terms of ending the war in Iraq, a year where there asses have been kicked from one side of the Capitol to the other on every single showdown dealing with the war. For a party that rode promises of ending the war right into power, the Dems have been a continual disappointment to me and every other anti-war American. Shape up, Democratic Party, or I may be writing in Mickey Mouse on my presidential ballot next year instead of voting for your candidate or whichever schmuck the Republicans nominate.
- Bobby Petrino is a piece of crap. Normally I would be the last person to rip a coach for leaving a bad situation to go somewhere new, but Petrino doesn’t receive that courtesy. He left the University of Louisville after last season to take the head coaching job of the Atlanta Falcons amid much fanfare. He was supposed to be a flashy hire, an offensive guru to help revive the Falcons’ flailing franchise. Instead, he came in and flushed the team down the crapper only to quit three games before the season even ended. He didn’t have the integrity or testicular fortitude to stick out a full season. Granted, he did lose his starting quarterback, dog murderer Michael Vick, before the season even began. Still, Petrino wrecked this team from the inside out, instituting moronic, dictatorial rules for players such as not allowing them to talk much above a whisper at team meals and treating them like the college players he apparently still thought he was coaching. He pissed off much of the team by cutting popular defensive tackle Grady Jackson during the season, not because Jackson wasn’t productive but because he didn’t blindly follow Petrino’s idiotic methodologies. He’s gone through three different starting quarterbacks this year and succeeded with none of them as his team has staggered to a 3-10 record and last place in the NFC South. Instead of sticking it out, though, Petrino is taking the chicken-sh*t way out, resigning mid-season so he can scurry back to the college game with his tail between his legs. He’s reportedly on the verge of taking the head coaching job at Arkansas, where fittingly he’ll be in the same conference as another coach who pulled the same no-balls stunt as he did, one Nick Saban. Of course, he may not have lied like Saban and said he wouldn’t leave his team and take the new job he’s rumored to be taking, but at least Saban can say he had the balls to make it through a full season in the NFL before quitting. Go away and stay gone, Bob-O, because the Falcons will be a better and happier team if for no other reason than because you are gone.
- What kind of weekend was it at the box office? Depends on who you ask. Leading the way was the new family adventure/fantasy film The Golden Compass starring Nicole Kidman, with $26.1 million in earnings. It’s a solid opening weekend for most films that aren’t mega-blockbusters, which I would argue that Golden Compass is not, but some around the industry and the film are disappointed because those earnings are well below movies like Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, two films Compass had been compared to. I don’t really see the comparisons and I don’t believe there was nearly as much buzz about this film as either of the other two, especially Lord of the Dorks, er, Rings. With production costs for the movie at $180 million, I can see where you might be disappointed with those opening weekend totals, but the film has also taken in more than $55 million overseas. My guess is it does good but not great business in theaters and scores big on DVD, so those calling it a ginormous bust are a bit off track.
- Maybe I owe VH1 an apology for so openly and frequently ripping their hack reality series Scott Baio is 45 and Single. Yes, the show is still about a has-been middle-aged actor who hasn’t been relevant in a couple of decades, and yes it does chronicle one of the more pathetic aspects of Baio’s life, but maybe the show did him some good. See, he’s finally tied the knot with girlfriend Renee Sloan and the couple have a newborn daughter. So maybe the show actually did help Baio, perhaps through sheer embarrassment, to get over his hang-ups and get married. Of course, that doesn’t mean I need a second season of the show, but VH1 is giving it to us anyhow. They clearly did not learn the lesson MTV taught us with its Laguna Beach franchise, i.e. that one season of reality TV about non-famous, screwed-up people is enough, but after a while people get bored with it. Baio isn’t nearly captivating enough to warrant his own reality show to begin with, but some people got a kick out of mocking him and laughing at him last season. Now, the novelty is gone and VH1 should let the series die. Will they? Of course not, because if they did, they wouldn’t be VH1.
- I’m sorry, but I don’t see anything suspicious about what Anne Darwin and her husband John have been up to for the past five years. Sure, the British couple may have inadvertently benefited from an insurance settlement paid out under false pretenses, but who among us hasn’t done that? Yes, Anne Darwin fibbed a little and said her husband died five years ago in a canoeing accident. Yes, she received a massive life insurance payment after his alleged death. And yes, she has been living in Panama for the past five years off of the money from that settlement. I’ll even give you the fact that her husband, once presumed dead, reappeared last week. I just don’t get why everyone is so upset. You all are acting like a lot of people who paid insurance premiums then saw that money paid out to a woman and her husband because he faked his death. Plus, you all are carrying on like this woman has been living off her ill-gotten gain in some warm, tropical climate for the past five years while her husband is still alive. Honestly, there are times when I just don’t get all of you……but what Anne Darwin and her husband had better get is a good lawyer, because I have a feeling they’re going to need one once the law gets its hands on them.
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