Are you scared yet?

Cheers to:

-the pilot and student pilot who came within 3 miles of the center of Washington, D.C. in their single-engine Cessna before special military helicopters were able to get them out of there. Thank you for showing the American public that we are on a retardedly heightened terror alert in D.C. and yet our "Homeland Security" Department couldn't stop this little gaff. Oh, and last month they saw a blip on the radar that they thought was a foreign aircraft and they evacuated the White House. Turns out it was some nice, puffy clouds moving by. Good work.

-George Voinovich, republican senator from Ohio who is taking a stand against president Dipwad Bush's choice for U.N. ambassador, John Bolton. Voinovich who "wanted to review allegations against Bolton, portrayed the nominee as “arrogant” and “bullying.” The senator said that while he would vote against the nomination in committee, he supported sending it to the full Senate for a vote."
Also, in a rare case of real humility and level-headedness, Voinovich declared "“That being said, Mr. Chairman, I am not so arrogant to think that I should impose my judgment and perspective of the U.S. position in the world community on the rest of my colleagues,” he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “We owe it to the president to give Mr. Bolton an up or down vote on the floor.”" For the full story, go to this article.

-the MBELftBoH, which finally cut most of its deadwood employees yesterday, but NOT before giving them another month, on the payroll to find another job. Now they can get down to the business of running the place with only 20 employees. Amazing what $50 million dollars worth of seed money can get you.

-to director Billy Wilder and writer George Axelrod, who made a film out of the play, "The Seven Year Itch" and who made sure to stay as true to the original as the conservative, oppressive rating board would allow in the 1950s. We watched this movie last night, and though it still isn't one of my favorites, it did certainly attempt to bring to light the odd social condition of sending the wife off to the country for the summer so the hubbies could 'play'.

Jeers to:

-anyone writing about all the goofy celebrity stuff in the news lately - monitoring every freakin' step these people take is so crappy. Course, I have to stop here or I will be jeering myself. We may not be as pretty, but we all live interesting lives, let's write about those more often.

-on the theme of jeering celebrity-worshippers, I'm sure that all networks do this, but I happen to watch ABC more often than any other, so I will pick on that particular network. Seen the commercial for "Nick and Jessica, Singing For Freedom" or some such drivel? What the ef? And to echo Bryan's disgust, last week the trailer for the new ABC show "Grey's Anatomy" was "Doctors don't just make house calls, they make BOOTY calls". How pathetic. It's a decent show, fast-paced and with likeable characters, but this network has done a lovely job making it seem like a dumb melodrama about doctors having sex all the time.

-and, finally, the biggest jeer:
This man is our president: Thanks to the blogger who created this entry.