Potpourri

ALEXANDRIA, La. - A judge has ordered a teenager who blasted his pickup truck stereo to remove all non-factory installed sound equipment for violating a noise ordinance.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050502/ap_on_fe_st/stereo_penalty
Carp. There is a god and he doesn't like loud music.

Frist Should Have Taken The Deal
Peter Brooks, NYT
Last week, the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid, made an offer to head off a nuclear exchange over judicial nominations. Reid offered to allow votes on a few of the judges stuck in limbo if the Republicans would withdraw a few of the others.
But there was another part of the offer that hasn't been publicized. I've been reliably informed that Reid also vowed to prevent a filibuster on the next Supreme Court nominee. Reid said that if liberals tried to filibuster President Bush's pick, he'd come up with five or six Democratic votes to help Republicans close off debate. In other words, barring a scandal or some other exceptional circumstance, Reid would enable Bush's nominee to get a vote and probably be confirmed. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/opinion/01brooks.html?hp

Carp Frist risks his presential bid and the wrath of the GOP base, but hey, Reid promises to not filibuster the admistration's supreme court nomination unless Bush nominates a wacko. But the agreement must be secret, says Reid. Right , and Reid can sell you some swamp land in Nevada. Peter, where is your journalistic skepticism, You know, the skepticism you use when President Bush said he believed that Iraq had WMDs.

Runaway News
Yet another reality show clutters Fox. Its The "Runaway Bride" soap opera promoted by Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly et al. Hannity is almost orgasmic. He gets to talk to a myriad of ladies on his talk show. I don't know if Hannity just has a propensity for ladies or if he's on a quest for the holy grail of female listeners.

Its the "Princess Di" syndrome. Fox and sundry talk shows take a tabloid news story and beat it to death giving it much more importance than it deserves, but in this dumbed downed country, soap operas find an audience. Maybe its a women thing.

You know you're old when you have never watched a reality show or American Idol. My sister, a vice principal, and a very smart lady can't miss Survivors or the Great Race. Did you ever notice that all reality show actors are good looking with great bodies. To me reality shows are on the same par with wrestling.