In The News...

The Olympics are over!
Having to choose between old re-runs and Olympic curling competition made it tough to watch TV. I'm not a big fan of figure skating, but after watching a few nights of it, I was pretty impressed. Some of the bad calls sucked. I'm surprised there is not a bounty on Kramer's speed skating coach's head. Lindsay Vonn's wipeout and the subsequent yellow flag which stopped Mancuso screwed Mancuso's chance for a medal. But hey, Go NightTrain!!
Earth 1, Chile 0
Another earthquake and following tidal wave hit Chile. I'm waiting on the doomsday crowd to start pointing fingers. The craziest thing I saw was on the news last night. They were showing the looters, who were saying that they were just taking food, but one guy I saw had a small refrigerator on his shoulder. What the hell is he going to plug it into?
Federal employees on furlough
A pissing match (no surprise!) in Congress stopped a bill extending some transportation construction programs as well as unemployment benefits for 400,000 people. Jim Bunning (R-Ky) says the bill will add to the deficit. What bill doesn't these days? What is so stupid is that, since federal inspectors at jobsites are furloughed, the construction workers can't work either. Won't that just add to the unemployment numbers? Don't you just love the whole R-Ky thing? Sounds like our guvmint at work!