Return from Hiatus
I'm back from my hiatus. Unfortunately, I also have a doozy of a cold. So if I say anything particularly stupid over the next couple of days, I ask you to blame my condition...instead of, you know, the usual reason.
Hiatus is a wonderful place. Warm, too. While I was not writing on my blog, I was also not reading the paper, and not watching the news. I can't remember the last time I so enjoyed not doing something.
Even so, however, I couldn't help noticing that Jeanine Pirro dropped out of the Senate race, and declared her candidacy for Attorney General of New York. She had sworn she wouldn't be pushed into making a decision before the New Year. So it is a matter of record that her last official act as a candidate for the United States Senate, and her first act as an aspirant as Attorney General for New York, was to make herself a liar.
I say she's just as good a candidate as she ever was.
Early last week, Carson Daly interviewed Jennifer Love Hewitt, and publicly melted down on the air as he was doing so. I hate that guy, and his show, but I wanted it to last longer, because it's not often I see someone have a nervous breakdown on the air.
It was good television.
Fox News today reported that Rep. Tom DeLay's lawyers said the charges against him were "baseless". A lawyer, saying his client is innocent: Imagine that. That isn't news.
Now, it'd be news if they reported what murderers or corporate criminals these guys have also defended. They did that with the Scott Petersen appeals lawyers just a couple minutes later; they mentioned his lawyers had defended the Menendez boys.
What else was weird...Oh, yeah: Sen. Ted Stevens said the day the ANWR provision got voted out of the Defense Appropriations bill that that was the worst day of his life. Now, the man is 82 years old. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I'll assume he's loved and lost; and certainly friends and family have passed away, certainly he's witnessed personal tragedies of others close to him. But, according to his own report, what really crushed Senator Stevens' spirit is when they rejected a proposal to devastate the environment and kill caribou for some rich oil guys.
Kind of gets you right there*, doesn't it?
*You can't see me, but I'm tapping my heart.
7:32:11 PM 
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