HOLLYwood!
la-la-land....So Jennifer Aniston wants her life to be more private, and uses the opportunity of appearing nearly naked on a magazine cover to make that wish public knowledge. Excuse me? She can’t carry a movie and apparently can’t find a TV show that’s suitable for her self-image. What a pathetic run-up to a melt-down of a career. Please, can’t we just move on and worry about something more pertinent, like why Paris Hilton really DIDN’T run for president?

POLITICS
Also, I find it very entertaining how Rove and other Republicans have yet to leave the campaign trail – oh, wait, they NEVER leave the campaign trail, unless it's to start whitewashing their record over the past 8 years so they can win elections in 2010. (They'll work for their buddies on Wall Street and Corp. America in the meantime, why not, since they have all that money the Republicans like to funnel to Big Business?) For them the entire issue is about being in power, not about actually performing the public duty of the offices for which they strive with such diligent negativity and fear mongering.

Now there’s a columnist (the right-winger that the San Francisco Chronicle runs so they can say they’re balanced – when it’s obvious she isn’t) who is wondering why, after previous columns condemning anything Obama might even be thinking of because he's a liberal in her view, why-oh-why isn’t Obama stepping up and doing something about the economic crisis NOW (mid December). Shouldn’t someone remind Ms. Nasty Loser that her hero is still in office, and doing his very best imitation of President Buchanan? Namely, do nothing so the situation dissolves so badly that the next administration will be nearly helpless – and therefore to blame. At least, as others have noted, we don’t have to wait 3 years for the next administration to step in and try to save our Empire, all the while trying to trick the next administration into doing things that will handicap them in the future. (How come Hoover was smart enough at the end of his administration to try to entrap FDR, but not smart enough to try to do anything about the economy? Oh, wait – that’s right – he didn’t think anything needed to be done – he was convinced it would be good for the country to go through what it was going through, and the free market would salvage the remainder.)

Gotta wonder just how much similarity there is between the Empire of the U.S in the 21st century, and the Spanish Empire of the 17th century. Spain was the most powerful and wealthy superpower in Europe, all because of the gold they were raping out of the Americas. Once that pipeline dried up Spain declined to regular-country status (it didn't help that they had an inbred idiot as their last Hapsburg King). And now the U.S. Empire is crumbling, because the gold we were raping out of our homes and credit cards has dried up. Fortunately next year we won't have an idiot taking over the reigns of power.