Entertainment tonight

One of the big buzzes from the Olympics right now, besides Michael Phelps' swimming or the Phelps-Lochte rivalry for medals, is the US Swim Team's music video which has gone viral. Here it is:

Who'da' thunkit?

Our--black--president toasting the white, billionaire Queen?

I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.

There's hope for humankind yet.

After Friday, blocking tweets will be commonplace

Mark the date:

The British Royal Wedding

Tweeting banned from Westminster Abbey

Event organizers install technology to block guests from using their cell phones during the ceremony.

The fraud that is Afghanistan and their President Hamid Karzai

Just out from The Christian Science Monitor: Ballot-stuffing witnessed amid troubled Afghanistan vote "As Afghans voted Saturday, a reporter in Wardak Province spoke to an election worker about how his team had set out to stuff ballot boxes. The widescale fraud in Wardak may speak to troubles in the broader Afghanistan vote." Years from now, folks, sadly, years from now, there will be reports citing how many millions of dollars, at least, Hamid Karzai took from the US and his people--his own country. But he'll be gone by then, living very peacefully and very nicely, immune from it all. Mark my word. It won't come out for years. Enjoy your Sunday. Links to original post: http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/content/view/print/326696; http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7131270.ece

The most unbelievable, George W. Bush

You see? There are three things about George W. Bush that make him so unique. The first two--the main parts, his core, really--drive you mad. But the third one is the relief.

First, there is his virtually total ignorance, especially about all things political and historical. If he were an average citizen, it would be bad enough. But as PRESIDENT, for God's sake, it's criminal--and has turned out tragic.

Then there is almost complete lack of imagination. You wanna' bet "W" has never played a game of chess in his life? (Sure, it's an easy bet but, hey, it's out there). Can you imagine him thinking 3 PLAYS OUT, for crying out loud, as to what someone else will do, if he does "x"? No, ain't gonna happen.

So thirdly, then, is the only thing that comes from this chucklehead that makes life bearable. It's no replacement for intelligence and creativity but if we didn't have "W" for his nearly continuous source of humor--and as a butt for our jokes--we'd all go mad.

Like this, in the paper today: speaking to the The Times of London, of all papers, he 'noted that, like Frank Sinatra, he has a few regrets...'. He says "I think in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric,' the President explained, then added that saying such things as "bring them on" and "dead or alive" might have "indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

If I hadn't read it myself, I would never have believed it.

You can't write fiction that good.