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March 26, 2007
Random Musings: Larry King Style
The beauty of an entry like this one is that if you hate one topic, you just skip to the next paragraph where a new topic begins. If you hate all the topics, well, then that's a bit problematic.
Bob Simon is an absolute treasure on 60 Minutes. If you haven’t watched him in action, you should. And just to prove that I give proper props when props are due, yesterday, Katie Couric actually conducted a superb interview with John and Elizabeth Edwards. (I’m not exactly Katie’s biggest fan in case you didn’t know.)
Not too long ago, I shared an elevator ride with a man who has worked for my employer for a very long time. He’s being forced out of the government in a few months even though he only has a year and change until retirement. (He doesn't do a whole lot, but it really is a b.s. ouster.) This recent development has only served to enhance his usual dour demeanor.
Thinking Fool: Hey “Joseph,” how are you today?
Joseph: Life pretty much sucks.
Thinking Fool: Today in particular, or just all the time?
Joseph: Um, pretty much all the time.
Thinking Fool: Well, I hope today doesn’t suck as much as the other days usually do.
Joseph: Hey, when God closes one door, he opens a window. And then he screams, “JUMP!”
We shared a good laugh over that.
And then there were four. Go Bruins!
To the animal rights activists who want to kill the baby polar bear in Germany because he is being raised by humans at the zoo instead of by his mom (who abandoned the poor little bastard): You are all idiots. Go see if you can personally test some of the pet food that’s been roaming around America over the last few weeks. How is this animal better off being dead? I guess if All Dogs go to Heaven, maybe all Polar Bears do too.
The Coke Zero ads where Coca-Cola Classic employees want to hire lawyers to sue fellow employees who sell Coke Zero... absolutely brilliant in my opinion. Worth watching even if TIVO lets me skip them!
The comic strip, Pearls Before Swine, also brilliant! Give it a look at least once a day for two weeks. I bet you you’ll get hooked. And if you don’t get hooked, try meth once a day for the following two weeks. Then go back and read Pearls Before Swine again. I don’t know if that’ll make any difference, but I suspect it will. Let me know how that works out for you. (Note, I am not giving legal advice here.)
The last time I checked, U.S. Attorneys are political appointees, serving at the pleasure of the president, meaning they can be fired whenever the president wants to fire them. Perhaps someone should have explained this to the White House and Co. before everyone started inventing idiotic reasons for why these people were asked to leave. Tony Snow should have handled that question pretty easily. “They weren’t pleasuring the president anymore.... What?... No, not like that.... Well, sometimes, but only if the whipped cream is handy.”
Comments
My nit with the Couric-Edwards interview was that she kept asking "how this will affect his run for the White House?" No one ever asked Katie to quit her job when her husband got cancer.
Posted by: over_educated at March 26, 2007 03:12 PM
Katie wasn't running for president. And I think she asked the questions most Americans want to see asked, even if it was uncomfortable at times.
Posted by: Fool at March 26, 2007 07:34 PM
Pearls before swine is brilliant. A strip that often breaks the fourth wall, and then makes fun of itself for doing so... exellence.
Posted by: little fish in law school at March 26, 2007 07:57 PM
The Coke v. CokeZero ads are amazing!
Posted by: My So-Called Law School at March 27, 2007 12:54 AM
I didn't see the Katie interview but I heard a lot of people were really pissed at her?
Posted by: LisaBinDaCity at March 27, 2007 02:06 PM
I highly recommend the Pearls Before Swine treasuries ("Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic" and "Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My!") in which Stephen Pastis (a former attorney) annotates most of the strips-his comments are often funnier than the comics.
Posted by: D at April 5, 2007 02:47 PM
