Weighing in on Various Issues, Volume 3

So many issues, so little time! Where to begin? Ah:

ON THE MISSING GIRL IN ARUBA:

Fer crissake, yes, it’s a news story? But do you have to splash it all over the place. It’s a story that has come to rival the "runaway bride" story in scope. And it’s serving as yet another way for the “liberal media” to distract our attention away from more important things, like GM dropping 25,000 jobs, or American soldiers being killed at the rate of 2 per day in Iraq and Afghanistan, or the so-called “Downing Street Memo”.

This case is, and should be, important to her family and friends, the authorities in Aruba, and the people of Aruba. It should not captivate the entire country the way the media has made sure it would.

It's just another example of how the need to fill 24 hours every day with content can cause today's news organizations to make Everest-sized Mountains out of the tiniest of molehills.

ON THE OHIO COIN-FUND SCANDAL:

Or, as I call it, the scandal that keeps on giving. Scarcely a day goes by that The Blade doesn’t have some new revelation to splash all over the front page. The latest story is about how the company that lost $215 million dollars in Ohio BWC money is headquartered in Bermuda, and that the state will have a very hard time getting that money back, if they can get it back at all.

I swear you can’t make stuff like this up. Every day, it seems, the State is reminded of the dangers of one party controlling everything for so long. And I am enjoying every minute of it.

Seriously. The corruption of the Ohio Republican Party is staggering. If the voters in this state return a single Republican to office next year, then they deserve to lose all their money.

ON THE PISTONS:

Congrats, boys, on making it back to the finals. And for once again proving that Shaq is human after all (all evidence to the contrary). Now, if you can just figure out a way to beat the Spurs…

Good luck tonight!

ON THE MUD HENS

Every time I go to a game at Fifth/Third field, I am reminded of how lucky Toledo is to have such a great little gem at the heart of its downtown. Last Friday, I saw possibly the greatest game I’ve ever seen there—with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, the Downtown Destroyers managed to rally to tie the game, and then win it in the tenth.

ON THE PRICE OF GAS:

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to find gas for $1.97 a gallon.

Take a minute to read that sentence again. Did you ever think there would be a time when you would be grateful to find gas for $1.97 a gallon?!

It’s time for this country to get rid of its addiction to fossil fuels. Seriously. It took less than a decade to put a man on the moon using technology most of which can now be found only in a museum. Surely, with today’s modern technology, we can put together a project that can make this country energy independent less than half that time.

Yeah. Like that’s gonna happen!

Sometimes I wonder why I bother talking. It doesn’t seem like anyone’s listening!

Oh, well. I'll continue to be a Voice in the Crowd.

(P.S. Now that I've figured it out, this inserting-links-in-my-blog thing is fun!)