I don’t normally watch 60 Minutes these days (kind of a Dan Rather solidarity thing), but there it was on my teevee right after some really good basketball games, so I left it on. I wonder how long it’ll be before I’m no longer stunned by the sight of a President who is dignified and articulate (and, in Joe Biden’s defense, he looks pretty clean, too)? Right away, I knew his seeming to laugh about the economic situation wouldn’t play well in Peoria, though (and, honestly, had it been Bush, we’d have seen posts of scorn, hatred, and derision at all of our favorite lefty outlets). That’s kind of how I try to gauge my reaction to the things Obama does. Not WWJD, but WIDDI – What If Dubya Did It.

I did enjoy the way he basically told Dick Cheney to go fuck himself, without actually coming out and telling him to go fuck himself (though I really wanted him to say “Cheney ought to STFU and be glad he isn’t in prison”). Speaking of Cheney, the story about the paranoid schizophrenic guy was good, too.

How creepy are those pictures of the plane crashing into a cemetery in Montana? Kind of surreal. Reminds me of that old brain teaser: if a plane crashes into a cemetery in Montana, where do they bury the survivors? Or, better yet, how will the NY Daily News spell “cemetery?”

Sylvia Plath’s son, Nicholas Hughes, committed suicide last Monday. Like mother, like son, I guess. Except, instead of gas, he hung himself.

Pretty good weekend for me, sports-wise, as my old high school beat the Batavia Blue Devils on Saturday to earn a trip to the NY State Basketball finals. Syracuse moved on the the Sweet Sixteen by defeating the Arizona State Sun Devils on Sunday while my high school team was in the process of bringing home its second State Basketball championship in a row, beating the Peekskill Red Devils in OT. I cast ye out, Satan. Toss in an SU lacrosse win for good measure, and it makes Monday a little easier to take (though I have to admit to being somewhat exhausted, having been unable to sleep for various reasons), and a nice week waiting for Friday night’s game against Oklahoma.