Spring Cleaning

MORE IS LESS: Is it just me or has the constant need for bigger, better, larger, louder, more flashy and too trashy brought us to a point where we have a lot less really good entertainment and a lot more...CRAP? The music of Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Buffett has been replaced by the incessant noise of Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga. Instead of movies like The Godfather and On Golden Pond , cineplexes now offer us The Wrestler and Hannah Montana: The Movie. Where we once had M*A*S*H* and The West Wing, the networks give us The Bachelor and American Idol. Classic tales in novels like Exodus and To Kill a Mockingbird have been replaced by Going Rogue and yet another tome of soft porn by Danielle Steele. Perhaps another blog may be in order...yeah...Quality.com...reviewing retreads which even 20 or 30 or 40 years later are far superior to the dung heep we're presented with today...

STICK A FORK IN HER: Until she does something else incredibly stupid (read: about a week or two), comedy is really the only value Sarah Palin has left to offer. Following last week's 'Snatch and Dash' in the pre-Oscar party Swag Suites, Ms. Foot-In-Her-Mouth spoke before a partisan crowd in Indiana where she defended using crib notes on her hand so that when asked, she could remember what her priorities were, by comparing herself to God. Then the next day, before a group of conservative Canadian legislators, Granny Sarah changed the facts of a story she told during her infamous "Wink and Strut" speech at the 'Pub Nat. Convention. Did she think no one was going to remember that convention speech or notice the changes? Persoanlly, I am thinking Lettermen has her on his payroll. She's just giving him too much material to be doing it for free. Ands since you're on the way out Sarah, could you please take Nancy and Harry with ya?...

IF MEMORY SERVES...just following the first year of the Reagan presidency, Ronnie was bottoming out in the polls and needed something to get himself back on track and more importantly, get the American people with him. He wallopped the Air Traffic Controllers Union and then stood up before the tv cams and said, "THIS is how it's going to be, end of story". Right or wrong, the people loved him for having a plan, sticking to it, and not letting congress push him around. It's time Pres. Obama followed suit. Lay out the "original" ideas you had for healthcare reform, tell Pelosi and Reid they either get in line and play nice with the other side of the aisle or you're going to take a couple of visits out west this summer...on behalf of their opponents...and kick those two to the curb. And yes, I know that's two items in a row where I suggest the political demise of the Dumbnamic Duo, but this is that important and they are that bad...

THEY DID WHAT?: My sports-fix guru Dennis Miller, editor of ACES: Northern California's Premiere Golf Lifestyle Magazine ( www.acesgolfmagazine.com due to hit news stands with the debut issue this summer!) tells me that San Francisco 49ers team owners Denise and John York have gone and signed yet another FORMER #1 NFL draft pick, this time Houston Texans' reject David Carr, at the QB spot. Two thoughts here: 1. These people must have inherited their wealth, because no one can be successful and still be this stupid, and 2. Football intelligence is NOT hereditary. Denise, do the world a favor and on his next brithday (or better yet, for St. Patty's Day!), give your brother Eddie back his team. Trust me, after what you and your hubby have done to this onc storied franchise, the NFL will not only welcome EddieD (owner of the epic Niner teams of the 80's and 90's) back to the fold, but if you play it smart (meaning have someone else lead the negotiations), you can probably get the league to pony up for the new stadium...

WALKING THE DOG this morning, I was thinking about the 72 cardboard boxes that remain, untouched, in my garage, where they have resided since we bought the Brandon Drive house more than two years ago. Lisa and a friend are going on a three-state Temple-hopping tour in late June and I was thinking this may be the perfect time to move the stuff we'll never use from the garage out to the storage unit. But then I figured, this WILL be the summer we'll decide to pull out the peuce and fuscia fondue pot...

TOMORROW THE LOUNGE will offer up it's Hump Day pot of Solution Stew. But for today, here's a quick and easy fix to stop the spitefull bickering and useless arguing between the people who are supposed to be representing us and doing our work in the nation's capitol: FIRE 'EM ALL! The ULTIMATE Spring Cleaning Job. If every voter commits to select the challenger, and all the incumbants from BOTH parties in BOTH houses of Congress are shown the door, then the new kids in town can start over, doing what we want them to do, instead of appeasing the lobbyists and their election donations. Stop and think for just a second...how totally cool, and American, that would be.