Tax Time

Busy with taxes. Mine, yours, whomever.

The new season of "24"

I've been hearing a lot of buzz about the Fox show "24" at work and flipping through the blogs. This show is great entertainment, just like an old western, where all the bad guys ultimately get what they got coming to them. Last season was the first I watched, since I don't make it a habit to watch a lot of new TV. For the most part, I find new shows lame and not fit for family viewing, especially the so-called comedies. And while this show also has stuff I wouldn't recommend to kids, there's something deliciously politically incorrect about skirting all the rules to get the terrorists. Anyone who has ever worked for the government knows about all the rules and restraints placed on you from all the layers or bureauacracy.

Man, Do I Stink

I am the worst in terms of picking playoff winners. I was sure Indy would win easily, but I guess I should've known better by how well the Steelers handled my Bengals last week. Its a really good thing I don't actually bet the games, because I woulda went broke. Maybe the Bears will do something and kick a lot of field goals. Fantasy football players have a sickness, I'm convinced.

Alito through the worst of it

Supreme Court Justice nominee Samuel Alito has finished his interrogation by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and will be confirmed soon. The Senate Democrats did not disappoint, with yet another disgusting display of partisanship. The thought of the idiot Durbin and the drunken Kennedy sitting in judgment of someone like Alito is frankly nauseating. It's no matter, because of the fact that the Dems keep sending guys like this to Congress, which is the reason they've become and will continue to be the minority party.

Bengals Fans Hopes Sink With the Loss of Palmer

After many years of waiting for a playoff game, Cincinnati fans hopes of a post-season run were cut short when Carson Palmer was injured on his first throw of the game. Both the receiver and thrower were hurt on the play, and though the Bengals held a lead through halftime, they could not overcome the loss of their franchise player and eventually fell to the hated Steelers.
Well, as they say, there's always next year.

Playoff Week; Excitement Building

It's finally here, my Bengals are in a playoff game, against the hated division rival Steelers. Pep rallies and smack talk. All the things that make football a party.
By the way, congrats to the Longhorns, what a great victory over USC!

Romance on TV

I've been watching Ohio State and Notre Dame play today, and I've seen ABC run a bunch of ads for new "romantic" comedies like "Emilys Reasons Why Not", "Crumbs", and "Jake in Progress". These shows purportedly "put the fun" back in romance, but, from what I can tell from the promos, all they really do is trivialize real romance and reduce it to the glorification of casual sex. I mean, what is so funny about "I nailed a chick in the freezer, I win" which was in one of the promos for "Crumbs"? Is it really smart to offend that portion of America with any remaining morals by producing such shows? Whats worse, they are aggressively promoting them with the sleazy inuendo during "family" programming (if your family likes to watch football games.)
I submit that the real romance was shown during halftime, when Faith Jarvis, in a fund-raising promotion from Tostitos for the USO, was surprised by the appearance of her boyfriend, 1LT Ray Vera, who had just got off a plane from Iraq, and proposed to her on the spot. All this, of course, on national television. And lets not forget the girlfriend of Ohio State's AJ Hawk is the sister of Notre Dame's Brady Quinn, a story which got a lot of play during the game itself. Should the executives suffering from rectal cranial inversion at ABC recover long enough to see that the real romance was at the Fiesta Bowl and not from imaginary characters that think "monagamy is overrated".

Happy New Year!

It's a new year, and hopefully we'll make it better than the last. I will make the blog better, get my health better, get in better shape, and get my mind ready for new challenges.
I'm going to start a new award for this blog only, the RCI award (short for rectal cranial inversion.) It will be given for substantial rectal cranial invertedness during 2005, and ordinary inversion just isn't enough. If you have some nominations, leave a comment.