While I fully realize that this will not be original, let it be known that I posted it before anyone else.
I have only three words to say about the Cowboys spectacularly bad offensive showing on Sunday.
Romo, Romo, Romo.
Tell me that I am knee-jerking as much as you want. But until the offensive line can lessen the pressure on the QB, you need someone who can run around a little bit.
Drew Bledsoe can’t.
Television Shows That Are Better Than I Ever Imagined They Would Be
The Dead Zone. Who would have imagined that the dork from Sixteen Candles would grow up to be the coolest psychic on television? And how did this show stay on the air for four and a half years before I caught on that it was really good?
Eureka. What I expected to be fairly shallow, cheesy and nauseating is actually fairly shallow, cheesy and entertaining. Won’t last long, but I’ll enjoy it until they cancel it.
Television Shows That Are Worse Than I Have Been Told They Were
Ghost Whisperer. I’m sure I disliked it precisely because it’s not as good as The Dead Zone. Take TDZ, then sprinkle in a liberal about of CBS family fare mood, some Dawson’s Creek style drama, then douse it in syrup. Gross. Even Jennifer Love Hewitt is not aging well.
Kyle XY. I’ll be fair. I was warned the acting was… uneven. I was not warned that the acting was… middle school play-level. The plot might be cool, but I just could not get past the feeling that everyone. had. memorized. their. lines.
Most Underrated Feeling That I Should Not Have Enjoyed
Running into an ex-girlfriend at the gym. Let’s just say I know where the 20 pounds I have lost have gone. And so did she. Oh, c’mon… keep the hate mail to yourself… can’t I just enjoy a little cruelty? I won’t make it a habit.
Meet the Press, Sept. 3, 2006
I’m typing this in front of my TiVo. I’ve rewound several times, because I simply could not believe what I had heard. Although I have edited for length, given that I am a lazy typist, all of the following are exact quotes.
Tim Russert (concerning a Pentagon report about sectarian violence in Iraq): This is Shiite vs. Sunni, Iraqi vs. Iraqi, what do you do about that, stay the course?
Rick Santorum (Senator from Pennsylvania): … We are fighting this war on multi fronts, and Iraq is simply a front. And Iran, which is the principal stoker of this Shia/Sunni sectarian violence, would love nothing more than to see the Iraqi democracy fail because of that. This is a tactic of Iran, to disrupt our efforts in Iraq by in fact trying to defeat the Sunnis. So there’s no question… at the heart of this war, is Iran. Iran is the problem here. Iran is the one that is causing most of the problems in Iraq. …[Iran] is the country we need to focus on in this war against Islamic fascism.
So, please, dear readers… help me out here.
Is Sen. Santorum saying we invaded the wrong country? Is he now recommending a military move against Iran? That is certainly what it sounds like to me. This is not a lunatic running for Congress with no chance of winning. This is the current Republican Senator from Pennsylvania.
His opponent in the debate today pounced on this stating that this was a long winded answer in favor of staying the course in Iraq. That is not how I read it at all. I read it as an endorsement of expanding our efforts in the Middle East dramatically, and toppling another government.
We are the most powerful military in the history of the world. But we are not all powerful. We are stretched thin. I cannot conceive of an argument that would convince me that any attempt to topple the government of Iran would be a good idea.
Sen. Santorum proceeded to claim that the invasion of Iraq was a war of necessity, because they posed a direct threat to the United States, right after he pointed out that we did find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Even the President has abandoned that viewpoint, and clinging to the premise that 20 year old chemical weapons left over from the Iran-Iraq war constituted weapons of “mass destruction” that posed a direct threat to the United States simply makes Sen. Santorum look petulant and childish.
Don’t get me wrong, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania did not impress me (he seemed far too focused on “My opponent is wrong” and not nearly focused enough on “here’s why I am right”)… but Mr. Santorum scares me. Although he did have a really nice dimple in his tie.