Random Randomness

Just thought I’d start posting random thoughts about random items that happen each week.








When BP is finished with sealing the oil leak, I’d like them to cork the gusher that I consider the mouth of Rush Limbaugh.

Jesse Jackson spouted off about Cleveland Cavalier’s owner Dan Gilbert and likened him to being a slave master. Correct me if I’m wrong, did anybody ask for Jesse Jackson’s opinion? I didn’t think so.

George H. W. Bush gets lost in the fog and grounded his boat on the beach. Kind of sounds like his presidency.

I don’t know what was worse with the whole LeBron James prime time special – watching James inflated ego at work or watching ESPN sacrifice its journalistic integrity.

Hey LeBron, Abe Lincoln called. He said he wants his beard back.

I like watching the Deadliest Catch, but I’m sick of Mike Rowe.

LA Laker Pau Gasol obviously must have been a soccer player at one time. A player that dives and flops as much as him must have learned that feat on the soccer pitch.

Speaking of soccer, if the recent World Cup didn’t generate enough interest in the United States then nothing is. The World Cup displayed the game at its best, but the majority of Americans could have cared less. So, let’s end any discussion of the sport increasing in popularity in the states. It’s not going to happen.

I can’t wait for the vuvuzela Christmas CD.

Mike Tyson has concluded that he has wasted his entire life and has accomplished very little as a human being. I guess that makes it unanimous.

Why can’t we reduce our dependency on oil by using the hot air of our politicians as our primary energy source?

Last week there were protesters in Maine to march against the development of wind turbines on a mountain range upstate. One of the protesters, from out of state, chained herself to the construction equipment. They should have carted her carcass to the New Hampshire border and told her to get out, stay out and mind her own damn business.

I’ve got some vacation time coming up next week. I’m thinking life would be better if we had vacation time for most of the year and then would work for just four or five weeks.

Speaking of vacation time, I'll get paid during those weeks but wonder if I could make a case for getting paid double for the time I stay away from the office?

I don’t know if it is sadder statement about our news agencies or about society itself that the major news stories in recent days are about Bristol Palin and Lindsay Lohan.

The whole loading up of free agents by the Miami Heat makes me think I’d root for the Lakers if those two teams meet in the NBA Finals and that makes me really feel disgusting.

While rummaging through old letters and photos the other day, I found a note that stated I was to report to the college dean’s office at a certain time. Hmm. Wonder what kind of trouble that was about?

I see there’s a remake of Hawaii Five-O hitting the networks soon. Once again, Hollywood proves it is completely out of ideas and has to resort to rehashing has-been shows.

Wish somebody would tell ESPN's Chris Berman that his shtick is getting tiresome. He's not funny, his "Back Back Back" or "Way Back" and all his stupid nicknames are getting old. And, he's not much of a journalist any longer, assuming he ever was one.

And it is people like Berman that make media types more interested in trying to be entertainers or celebrities rather than journalists.

Wonders why our forefathers didn't create laws to outlaw stupidity?

I had a press conference at Mall Plaza in South Portland today. That's where I worked in high school when Shaws was there. Bet I still could wheel 14 or 15 shopping carts through those doors.