Newscoma

So, you need to waste some time. I’m your (wo)man.

I think there are is some weird stuff going on in Washington. I mean it was always crazy/criminal peculiar but I think something is teetering underneath the surface. Let’s take a look.

•  Vice-President Dick Cheney doesn’t recognize stuff like laws. He’s above the law.  He is a Super-Neoconhero that don’t need no stinking laws. And he will break you if you, you know, try to oversee what’s he’s doing. The Crone has more. I’m scairt.
• It’s not true. Or is it? Gitmo Bay is in the news.
• Former Attorney General John Ashcroft says they were fighting like 12 year-old girls over the quarterback for the football team. I’ve seen this first-hand with 12 year-olds. It’s not pretty. (He didn’t really say this, but you get my point.) Go and read what the singing lawyer is talking about.
• Finally on the political front, if I send someone from the newspaper to cover a story, they are representing the paper. It’s my call as managing editor to send whomever I want to send. Adam Kleinheider had the right as a reporter and representative of WKRN to cover Nashville mayoral candidate Karl Dean’s  conference call. As I work for both a newspaper and I blog, Mr. Dean, media is different and if you want to run a city, you are going to have to move with the times. And he is a reporter. If Steve Gill had been sent, would have been alright with that? How about Ann Holt or Bob Mueller? What’s funny about this story is one of the guys that works with one of the politicians on his campaigns from ’round here and I discussed this for a long time yesterday. Yup, we are talking about this in Hooterville. Politicians and their handlers need to realize that the times, they-are-a-changing. Carter is right here. And Dean looked goofy.

So let’s root around some more, because, dang you, it pleases me.

• Badger Beth does a self-portrait which has nothing to do with politics but I thought I’d add it anyway because she makes me laugh.
• Scout is headed here. And for her, this just might be a dream come true. She is being accompanied by the lovely Finn.
• Sometimes, I just want to sit at Malia’s feet and listen to her because she is such a positive, lovely, understanding person. Seriously. She is proof that people can all get along and it is a good thing. And she has gorgeous red hair that just needs to be seen.
• CROP CIRCLES IN TENNESSEE! CROP CIRCLES IN TENNESSEE!  Man, I love me some alien visits. Well, at least the nice aliens. Not the blood-sucking ones who want to eat me and turn me into soup.
• I’m not nuts about blogs that just yell at me. I get enough of that in my non-virtual world.  Kat Coble tells you the ones that irritate her.

It’s Friday. Thank Goodness.