Palin retires and other observations from the past week….

This is Part II from my previous post.   Since I was away for a week I thought it would be easier on the eyes to break down the posts into 2 segments.

This is Part II:

Sarah Palin retired.  This would normally be exciting news, but it’s made my favorite radio personalities Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity virtually unlistenable.   Their shows have pretty much turned into 2 hours of defending Palin, and 1-2 hours of their regular nonsense.  Hannity is actually a tad more insane with his defense of Palin.  This exchange pretty much sealed the deal for me that he’s gone off the edge:

Female Caller:  Sean, you’re a great American! (I don’t recall if she said that but 80% of the calls start off this way.)

Hannity:  Thank you female caller, you’re a great American.  (He said her name, but I don’t remember it.)

Caller:  Sean, I think Palin left office because of David Letterman.  After what he said she was probably worried about all the pedophiles and maniacs that are lusting after her children.  She’s worried about their safety.  The pedophiles will be going after those kids now.  (Paraphrasing)

Hannity:  It’s possible, but………

It’s possible?  Are you serious?  Have you gone completely mental Sean?  Of all the thousands of reasons I can think of why she may have left office, her fear that pedophiles are about to rise up en mass because of David Letterman’s comments is probably the one I would throw away without a second thought.

Michael Jackson.  What’s going on here?  When did the media fall back in love with Michael Jackson?  He went from side-show freak, to a beloved misunderstood celebrity.  I’m not really paying that much attention to it all, but I am shocked by just how extensive the coverage is.  Well, not completely shocked since it’s good for ratings, but it all seems a tad hypocritical.

The Oscars upped the number of nominees for best film of the year to 10!!!!!  I’m pretty certain that all this means is that now we will see one or two summer blockbusters nominated each year (Star Trek), and one animated movie from Pixar (Up).  I’m not sure why some people are so upset, I like it at 5, but who watches the Oscars anyway?

The one good thing that may come out of this is that with 10 films being nominated every year there should be a far greater chance that a film featuring Claire Forlnai will be nominated.  You deserve it Claire!

Q-Tip.  I started listening to Q-Tip’s CD, Renaissance, this past week and I have to say it’s pretty solid.  It’s been out since November, so I’m a bit behind schedule on checking it out, but nevertheless it’s worth a listen.

Finally, I spent July 4th in St. Louis to see the fireworks and after hearing that St. Louis puts on one of the top shows in the United States I have to say I was rather disappointed.  It was good, but when I hear top 5 I expect the spectacular and I didn’t get that.  Better luck next year St. Louis.  The one thing that was truly spectacular in St. Louis this past week was my bowling.