“Work is the curse of the drinking classes” - Oscar Wilde

It’s Monday.  What else can I say?

You’ve got to love political advertising.  You don’t have to worry about facts anymore, you just have to make assertions. (Thankfully, some idiot named McCain wrote a law that would clean up malicious and deceptive advertising by adding the line “I’m so-and-so and I approved this message” to all official campaign ads.  Glad to see that worked.)

Whatever happened to that $200 million that Alaska got for that bridge?  Sarah Palin gave it back, right?  No.  Hm… Oh well, she’s still a maverick.  A maverick that keeps the earmark money and then rails against it.

By the way, that movie sucked.

Thomas Friedman was on Meet the Press yesterday.  (Why do I torture myself by watching these shows?)  He annoys me to no end (”The world is flat, the world is flat, hari krishna, the world is flat….”).  Here’s a typically obnoxious quote:

FRIEDMAN: [...] And the world has a problem, it’s getting hot, flat and crowded. And I think we solve our problem by taking the lead in solving the world’s problem. Because the argument of this book is that in a world that is–global warming, hot, flat, rise of middle classes from India to China to Brazil; and getting crowded in terms of population, what I call ET, energy technology, is going to be the next IT, the next great industrial revolution.

Doesn’t that make you just want to reach through the screen and shake him, yelling “Stop repeating your thesis and speak in complete sentences!”?

I think I just don’t trust that man’s mustache.  What’s he hiding?

I think we should get a fund together to send him a globe.