I watched Milk last night (the movie, that is), and it reminded me that long before Florida was known for electile dysfunction, it was known for Anita Bryant. I’d kind of forgotten about good ol’ gal Anita. Her 15 minutes should have ended in 1959 when she was runner-up for Miss America, but she actually managed to turn a mediocre singing career into the prized position of FCC (Florida Citrus Commission) spokesmodel. Sadly, as is often the case with halfwits, bigots, and Miss America losers, she started to believe that people should actually give a shit about what she thought. Her third (and final) fifteen minutes of fame ended after she managed to galvanize the gay community against her twisted homophobic “Kristian” views. After divorcing, going bankrupt, and getting remarried, Anita tried to revive her singing career by playing Pigeon Forge Tennessee, but she was a bust (if you can’t make it there, you can’t make it anywhere).

The Obama administration continues to fall all over itself, trying to figure out where it stands on the “public option.” The only thing I can think of is that they feel a need to get one Republican to vote for reform, so they can pretend it was bipartisan. Either that, or they’re just as deep in the pockets of the insurance industry as the Republicans and Blue Dogs are. Or maybe they really just aren’t as smart as I thought they were. It’s not all that unusual, I guess. Good at running a campaign doesn’t necessarily translate into good at governing. Oh well, at least he’s better than Bush.

Basketball season officially began yesterday (if an exhibition game against a Division II team can be considered “official”), and the home team looked pretty good. I actually got to watch the second half, after schlepping my 3 tons of wood pellets down to the basement. Granted, they were only playing Cal State-Los Angeles, but for a first game barely a week into practice, they looked OK. Hopefully they’ll still be looking good next March.

Oh well, time to face Monday.

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