Apparently, Don Siegelman's birthday is today.

Here's to hoping that the 60 Minute's piece will prove to be the best birthday gift Siegelman could possibly receive.

Of course, the rabid 19% will immediately try to turn it into another Rathergate (or whatever you want to call this particularly despicable episode). But I wonder if they will service Rove with the same enthusiasm they exhibited many years, and many scandals, ago for Bush.

Our little pistol packer seems to be reduced to shooting corks these days. We need to toss him a few Ricola, he is getting a bit hoarse and scratchy in his redundancies.

I was just getting ready to go do a few things on an excellent Sunday afternoon and am sure that seeing that would have made me stay here and write about it.

There's plenty of time to get back to ol' Pouty Puss King. I look forward to another whiny missive from him about how 'unfair' you are when you dismantle him. The only thing unfair about it is the ease of the pickin's. And that's not your fault. ;->

Get out in the sunshine and bring the ol' BP down a notch or two for those of us who are still stuck with sleet and cold.

WT & GC - my yard is always the first in the area to get lightening bugs, and the last to have them dissappear. I saw the first one this past year in May (!).

Where do I look to find Sirius? It is so difficult to really see the stars when one lives in a city. No one ever talks about light pollution and how it dims our vision.

When I am at my father's cabin in Canada I like to sit on the dock and look at the night sky. It looks like diamond dust strewn across midnight blue velvet. Viewing time is limited to tolerance of mosquito bites, but at least we didn't have to worry about getting West Nile Virus.;->

Someone needs to photoshop an American flag pin onto a pic of Osama and send that to the AP, FOX and MSNBC. The caption: "Is this man patriotic?"

I think he's already been wearing one, and the admin has the pictures - wouldn't that explain why we haven't been chasing him down and bringing him to justice?

Thanks. First clear night I will take a gander. Downtown is directly west of us, so there will be some light in the way, but I should still be able to see it.

We were very fortunate that clear (and pretty darn cold) weather prevailed the night of the eclipse. It was also in the east, which meant that the biggest obstruction I had was my garage.

The last time we had a good meteor shower (seems like it was late October, or November a couple of years ago, the Leonids?? I'm not really up on my -ids) was similar weather. My sister and I bundled up and I ran the engine on the old Explorer for a while. We took our blankets, thermos of cocoa (fortified with rum) and lay on the warm hood of the Explorer for hours watching the fireworks. It was like watching some cosmic artist going crazy with the biggest box of Crayolas you'd ever seen. Very cool.

The Star Trek schtick seems to suggest the possibility that they may all have been beamed up. Faux may be onto a much bigger story...

-- Northwestwoods

And since Kirk isn't yet available, they must be intended for the good Doctor's delectation.

Scotty will pop in whenever he isn't too busy dodging asteroids and tweaking the engines.

Not sure what I would do if my choices were limited to a has-been spoiler and an animated corpse that sings sick perversions of songs by the Regents.

Ted Diadiun, ombudsman of the Plain Dealer, just the other day bemoaned this sad fact when discussing how to handle the McCain lobbyist/love interest story. He said that when a story gets legs elsewhere, even if based on crap to begin with, then they are obligated to cover the nonstory-- because of its play rather than its newsworthiness.

I am curious as to whether his criticism was addressed to the sexual aspect of the story, the corruption or both. He has a point on the former but not, IMO, on the latter. This is repetitive behavior on McCain's part and the public, who has been subjected to 7+ years of a President who doesn't learn from mistakes, deserves to know if McCain will be more of the same.