Confessions of a Failed M.C.

State of the Union 2007

Two comments -

First - I think he wrote much of it himself.  Nothing useful at all.  Even the policy proposals were worse than usual.  For example.  How will a tax break for people who already have insurance help make health insurance available for uninsured people?  Answer - it would have the opposite effect, by subsidizing an increase in prices paid by the insured, putting insurance further out of reach for the people who don't currently have insurance. 

Second - "This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we're in."  So, if we weren't there, would we go in now?

Falcons New Coach Petrino's Discipline Policies

Sure, Petrino's an imaginative offensive mind.  That's great.  But supposedly Knapp was too.

The important thing about the next Falcons coach will be discipline -- can he make multi-millionaire 27 year-olds bust it every day?

On that note, here are some comments by one of his Louisville players (from College Sports TV.com) :

Senior RB Kolby Smith 
(On Coach Petrino's philosophy) "He wants to establish discipline. It's going to take hard work to be apart of this team and that you don't have to be a senior, anybody can come in and play. (He is also about) perception - how you are perceived is how you are going to be looked at. It's not hard to work with because he lets you know up front what he expects from you."

(On how Coach Petrino establishes discipline) "If you break the rules, he has discipline ways for you. Either you're up six in the morning running stairs or in the weight room. I don't really know because I haven't broken the rules. I try to stay out of that path. If you're late to weight lifting you have to push a 45-lb plate around, as many times as you want. Some guys have pushed 3-4 times around the weight room. I've seen guys, while we're warming up, pushing the plate around. It's not fun - it burns our legs." "I don't anyone who has missed curfew."

(On the work ethic of the coaching staff) "The coaching staff is up all times of night. They get up early in the morning trying to find the best ways to beat the defense. They create scenarios and go off their tendencies. They are breaking down the team all day trying to find the best match ups."

(On playing hard for the coaching staff) "All they want us to do is go out there and play the best that we can. You have coaches staying up all night trying to put us in the best position to win so you have to go out and work hard for them."

I'm optimistic.

New Falcons Coach Must Have Emergency Medical Training

. . . Because the only way to save this team is foot-to-ass resuscitation.

Hell, I'd just as soon let Crumpler run the place.  From the interviews I've seen over the years, Alge would bench his own mother if she didn't show up at full speed every day. 

The name is Barack Hussein Obama

The guy's middle name is Hussein.  Hussein Hussein Hussein.

Oh no!  That's really going to hurt him with the second-to-fourth grade demographic.

Dear Obama campaign:  It's better to have this conversation in 2006 than 2008.  Indeed, a giant round of silly wailing about this could be a great pre-kickoff publicity generator.  Kind of like Gennifer Flowers, but even more substantively irrelevant.

Besides, he can easily make up that lost ground with the recess crowd.  Just show how good he sounds in the name-game song:  Obama-rama-sho-shama-be-bi-bo-bama-banana-fanna-fo-fama- - Obama!

We're Gonna Be Okay.

Life can get you down. 

But every once in a while a piece of news comes along and you know, deep in your heart, that everything is going to be fine.

America, announcing the beginning of a political, cultural and business alliance that could save us all:
    Barak Obama and, my personal hero*, Mr. Christopher Bridges.

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*seriously.  Guy's a genius. He knows the first rule, and tells it like it is.