Random Thoughts on Various Subjects

1. I am pleased that Andre Bauer beat Campbell. I was afraid that all that free entertainment would be lost forever.

A couple of people have ripped into me for my support (actually mock support) of Bauer. These folks need to get a life. Honestly, why does it matter who is lieutenant governor? It is a nothing job. Besides, all politicians are scumbags except for Ron Paul from Texas.

2. I have had a lot of laughs about the bitchfight on The View between Star Jones Reynolds and Barbara Walters. Folks, they made a huge mistake putting all those women on the same show. Women are despicable to each other. Men get mad and toss a few punches. Then, it ends. That's why feuds in NASCAR only last a week or two. But with women, it goes on forever. And it gets nasty.

I'll give points to Star for being the classiest of the bunch. This is ironic considering her recent controversies. She'll go on to better things.

3. I shudder to hear talk of raising the minimum wage. It is hard to believe we have such wide spread economic illiteracy in this country. Why not raise the minimum wage to $1 million per year? We can all be rich then. But anyone with common sense knows this is stupid because it would effectively unemploy the nation or at least create a vast black market of labor. Yet, people forget all this when it comes to raising the minimum wage a few bucks because they think the same principles that would adhere in my million dollar example are suddenly suspended when reduced to the small scale.

Raising the minimum wage is good politics though it is bad policy. Poor people will think that they are getting something not realizing the increase in unemployment rates and the price of goods and services. But they are stupid, so fuck them. This is the price for having shit for brains.

4. Boris Said has the pole at Daytona for tonight's race, and I like the guy even if he has had some static with Tony Stewart. Can the road course specialist turn left all night long? Why not?

5. PBS's Frontline had a really good program called "The Dark Side" which can be viewed at their website. It is an eye opener. Here's the link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/

The bottom line of the program is that Cheney hates the CIA, fucked up the CIA operation in Afghanistan letting bin Laden escape, and lied us into the current quagmire in Iraq. In short, the man is a combination of ruthlessness and idiocy.

Posted in: