A nominee for the best conspiracy theory ever, via hit & run:
In the opinion of Arlington [Tennessee] Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the "Peanuts" television Christmas special.
It's a Charlie Brown Christmas we demand,
The other shoe has dropped, and Tiger Woods has given his "I take full responsbility for letting my family down" (I can't believe I got caught) speech. (I've heard about at least three mistresses; would that be a love pentagon instead of a love triangle?)
Oprah's TV efforts have always seemed just a heartbeat away from being a freak show, and now she dives into the slime bucket head first:
WESTVILLE -- A month from the day he is set to be executed at the Lakeside Correctional Facility, Matthew Eric Wrinkles will appear on national television, confronting the family of his victims and Oprah Winfrey.
Most of the Soupy Sales obits concentrate on his national presence, but the Detroit Free Press has a good read on his early days as a local TV celebrity:
Sales was best known to Detroiters as the goofy yet cerebral host of “Lunch with Soupy,” a half-hour show that featured Sales hamming it up in a variety of sometimes surreal situations.
Richard Heene's balloon is held for evidence in the Larimer County Sheriff's evidence area in Fort Collins, Colo., Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Will Powers)
Drat. I got so busy with chores yesterday that I missed all the Sunday news shows. And I understand that our reclusive president made a rare appearance on some of them, explaining his health care reform plans. I do wish he'd speak more often so I could come to understand reform from his point of view. As it is, I have to rely on the few crumbs of information made available by rightwing Obama haters, and I guess you know how they twist things. If you listened only to them, you'd think reform was nothing but a grotesquely expensive expansion of big government.
Aww, man! Just when I had all my plans made:
So, let's recap. Women in their 20s and 30s have grown up beating the boys in math class, knowing that combat is an option for them, celebrating "Girl Power" and in general watching all traditional male-female roles go out the window.
The Food Network, which I like to drop in on from time to time, yesterday concluded its fifth annual "The Next Food network Star" co
