From the Edge: Restroom Rendezvous Edition
31 08 2007Number 1, Number 2 or Number 3???
Now, in this space I normally don’t delve into politics, mainly because I find the subject to be akin to how I used to feel when moms tried to feed us CoCo Wheats for breakfast: Utterly disgusted and quite bored. Because truth be told, no matter how much CoCo you put in the wheats, it still tastes like crap! And yes, one can be bored with CoCo Wheats!
But I’ve gone off on a tangerine. Back to the point; politics are not usually a topic which are entertaining (Maybe if Hillary gets elected we can get the spice back into the White House with Badboy Bill!). Senator Larry Craig, the gentleman from Idaho who was or was not fishing for fresh booty in a mens’ room, is going to resign. Now, hygiene aside, was my man REALLY hoping to score some action in a lavatory? He says he’s not gay, but for the heat he’s taking, he may as well have been caught with his weiner out, cause right now his tail is in the wind. Mixed metaphors and all, the republican party is going down hard. Democrats must be salivating at the possibility of taking more seats from the “other” party. Another senator, John Warner of Virginia, has simply decided not to run again, leaving two republican spots in jeopardy during the next election. But what’s more interesting is to look at the week, heck the year, the party is having.
Rumsfeld gone, Gonzales gone amid controversy, Cheney possibly dead and simply propped up on a seat with Frank Oz’s hand up his butt, the war continually eroding confidence, Hillary and Obama becoming the faces of the present, George W. looking more and more like that caricature from the cartoon “Little Bush,” daughter Jenna getting engaged to some corny looking dude (Okay, so that last one doesn’t necessarily affect the country, but really? If George is having trouble at home with the kids, isn’t he more likely to take it out on say, Iran, than Laura?), and there’s still time for it to get worse.
All I got to say is: Folks, get out and vote in 2008, because we REALLY might be able to change the world with this election.
Slumber is over
After watching more monotonous Web Gems diving catches and barehanded grabs than I can fathom, or even wish to, the sports coma I usually enter around June (just after the NBA Finals) is beginning to wane. My senses are beginning to wind into focus. The Michael Vick saga awoke me a bit early, but that only whetted my appetite for the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Football season! Between now and January, I will watch collisions so violent that groups will protest, and try vainly to have an NC-17 label slapped on the game. I will inhale deeply the beauty of Ladainian Tomlinson juking three clowns (it won’t be the Cleveland Browns, thankfully) so nastily that the commentators ask for a replay three times. I will even get pumped when the Browns (my team) win a game, all five times they do it, because it’s the beginning of NFL regular season, when even the palooka teams have dreams of the Super Bowl. Then come NBA time, with my Cavs trying to make it back to the Finals and win one (more on that some other time).
But one thing I won’t do, no matter how far the Indians make it into the postseason, is miss watching highlights of the baseball regular season.
Random Thought
Robert Downey Jr. is going to be playing Tony Stark, aka the Iron Man, in what might be next year’s big summer movie. I’ve always liked Downey Jr., he’s a crazy guy who gets to play crazy guys in movies but never really struck it big, partly because he’s a crazy guy. We’ll see how this will play out, but the pictures look cool. And it’s cooler to know that it’s actually Downey in the suit, and not cgi magic.
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