Wednesday, July 24, 2002

Wake Us When It's Over: That white noise you hear is the democrats keening about W's upcoming vacation when everyone knows it's nonsense. Here's Maryland's own somewhat spotted Governor Parris Glendening leading the Charge-of-the-Wet-Noodles saying it "sends the wrong message." Must check and see how many decades it's been since Crawford, Texas got phones and electricity.

Hush, Hush Sweet Matthews: Malaria has temporarily hit Chris Matthews' mute button. LComStaff apologizes for the somewhat snarky responses on the first thread of this news here yesterday. We wish him well. No matter how much a performer annoys he doesn't deserve this particular illness. It's awful and scary and we wish him all the best.

Rosie, Not So Riveting Anymore: Rosie O'Donnell doesn't seem to get the message. Always a marginally talented entertainer, she's dumped her TV show, admitted to fans who didn't want to hear it that she is gay, packed on 100 pounds of Devil Dogs and Chocolate YooHoos and gotten into verbal fist fights over guns, gay parenting and state adoption laws. Now her magazine is in trouble because it's about her. Enough already. The Peace Corps beckons.

Heads Up, Colorful Copy Coming: Tony Blair seems to have picked another colorful gadfly to run the Church of England. They hadn't even finished taking up the hem of his vestments before Rowan Williams, the soon-to-be Archbishop of Canterbury, was popping off about things political. There will be more where that came from. Meanwhile, his flock will have to tend themselves.

Loony Toons: In a piece of lip flapping demagoguery not heard since he left office, Clinton told the Rainbow/PUSH convention that without money and attention AIDS will produce "millions of young boys that are more than happy enough to be mercenaries or terrorists because they'll think they'll be dead in a year or two." Should someone tell him how hard it is to throw up, push an IV tree and carry a rifle at the same time?

-Your Happy-It's-Hump-Day LComStaff