1 The pot calling the kettle black is never easy to listen to... Now that Ben and Jerry's platinum ad has run its course, I'd just like to say I'm taking a group of kids swimming to Cuba this weekend to get some of that wonderful universal health care! Cement fillings for everyone and dirt-rag bandages to cover our jelly-fish wounds--after a thorough cleansing from water in a dirty bucket, of course!. Skill levels that would put US Civil War doctors to shame! Oh, B&J, if you're just renewing your ad, disregard the above. You convinced me that the US is a 'terrible, terrible' place to live without a Leftist Democrat in the White House...Except for all the other countries, of course.

2 Anyone have Lexis/Nexis that can count the number of anti-Wal-Mart stories in the LA Times over the last six years? I bet laid-off LAT employees have been scaring those remaining with horror stories of switching to cotton/Crocs from hemp/Birkenstocks after the shit-canning. Ad revenues do count after all.

3 Apparently, the bennies were pretty good in the 1980s—to prevent people from leaving. They used to call it "the golden coffin." I've only known a few LA Times people. The one who was a colleague was not . . . well, in the magazine trade we have to have a range of skills. Newspapers hire some specialized people who tend to work quick and dirty.

1 How much would I have to pay for a can of McCain Off? Never mind, whatever it takes.

2 I had some little wackadoodle leftie tell me the other day that McCain was the front runner for the GOP, and all the little GOPers loved him. It was a shame that was online, because it would have been nice to laugh in his face personally, rather then a: bwahahahahahahahaha! Moron!

3 I think I've met, like, two members of the GOP who liked McCain. At least, they said they were Republicans. And I, who dislike the term "Rino" ('cause it gets applied to me a lot), almost used that word.

4 Those tow are probably the same kind of "Republicans" like the one on Rush's show on Thursday, that started spouting off about "fascism" and "America doesn't have a king." I was yelling at the radio saying, "come one, guest host, call the fake republican on it!"