Bond! Idol! Baseball! Stern! Letterman! Rock and Roll!!

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Bond! Idol! Baseball! Stern! Letterman! Rock and Roll!!

Hey, it’s my .12 Cents…….

Oh what a week it was. I just had to take a break and tell you about it. Just finished my daily dose of slaughtering some of my fellow humans. Feels good to tell you the truth. These aren’t real people mind you, just the enemy in 007: Everything or Nothing. See, I broke down a week ago and finally got my kids PlayStation 2. Got them a couple of games as well and figured I would try the Bond game out for myself. I’m sure in a month or two, I’ll let my kids take a turn.

Good to see where the nation’s attention was focused this week. Mario proved himself a quitter and left American Idol. With the media storm to get him to answer why, it would have seemed to a stranger that the kid had the secret codes to Area 51 to give away. And when we all weren’t focused on him, we got to see Congress hard at work fawning over current and former Major League Baseball players. Did they use steroids? Here’s a clue. A guy shows up one day with Popeye’s arms and belts a zillion homers, it ain’t cause he’s eating right.

What should we have focused on this week? How about the continued disintegration of our civil liberties. When they aren’t getting their balls signed, it seems Congress is doing everything possible to eliminate the First Amendment. They want to fine broadcasters for talking about farts and boobs. Congress would have you believe Howard Stern is a worse enemy of the state than Osama. Look into this. You will see that Stern is in trouble for broadcasting “indecent material” (which is currently undefined) during safe harbor times, which is most of the day prior to 10:00PM. Safe harbor is when kids may be listening. Do you know one kid who either A) would listen to talk on the radio instead of music or B) is listening to the radio in the morning when they should be in school? If so, perhaps the issue isn’t girl’s boobs but the boobs who don’t care their kids aren’t in school. Of course, Congress is offended too. Seems the more Stern they hear, the less baseball and their balls they can focus on.

So what is good you ask? I’ll tell you. For a good laugh, weekly and free of charge, visit the Letterman site. He has a weekly contest where visitors are given a Top 10 List subject and are then asked to submit their ideas for entry. (Letterman Top 10 Contest) It’s updated every Monday with the 10 winning entries posted and a new contest up for grabs. If you don’t think at least half the entries are chuckle-worthy, maybe you should run for Congress.

What else? Last week was the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions. I won’t argue worthiness of the individual acts with you, but I will point you in the direction of the best speech of the night. Bruce Springsteen inducted U2. His speech conveyed everything cool about rock and roll. His sincere affection for not only the band, but of the power of music, was beautiful. And who would have ever guessed he hung out with Pete Townsend?

Last tip? Go find a book by Lee Child and read it. One of the best thriller writers out there today.

Now if you will excuse me, I believe it is killing time once again. As soon as I can chase the kids out of the room.

By Austin Kody

   

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