It’s a big day today on Press the Meat, as Former Mayor NounVerbNineOneOne Ghouliani is set to regale us with tales of heroism about how he single-handedly saved the day back in 2001. Also on, White House PR man David Axelrod. Then it’s a roundtable with Dee Dee Myers (who, say what you will about her and/or her former boss, Bill Clinton, does not – unlike that twit that Bush hired, whose name escapes me at the moment – look like a Nazi chick), frequent Bill Maher (new season premieres next week, BTW) guest Reza Aslan, Republican creep (no offense to committees to reelect the president) Mike Murphy, and Ron Brownstein.

On CBS, Faze the Nation has Poppa John Boehner, House Representative Keith Ellison (on to represent Mooslams), and 9/11 Commission Co-Chair Tom Kean.

At Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace has the totally irrelevant, yet for some reason omnipresent, Newt Gingrich, plus the new Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Austin Goolsbee (who I think is related to Sybil Gooley, the checker down at Ferguson’s Market). Plus, ‘Power Player of the Week’, Washington Redskins Head Coach Mike Shanahan.

Goolsbee also heads on over to the Goebbels network to chat with Christi Amanpour on This Weak. Also up, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, plus a member of the president’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships and founder of Interfaith Youth Core, Eboo Patel, advocate for reform in Islam, Irshad Manji and founder of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, Rev. Richard Cizik. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a rountable with George :jerk: Will, Arianna Huffington (who will hopefully update us on how her aunt Zsa Zsa is doing), Kate Zernike and Jonathan Karl.

At CNN, Fareed Zakaria has a 9/11 retrospective, plus an “exclusive” with the first high ranking official to leave the Obama administration – Peter Orszag, and a look at how to tell the Taliban that it’s been fun, but it’s time for them to go away.

Then it’s the first Sunday of football season. Hard to believe there are only 17 weeks left (plus the playoffs). February 6th will be here before you know it.

Later, it’s the season finale of True Blood (the season is over? Sookie, say it aint so!).

And, finally, in my quest to spend every dollar I have, here’s what I bought yesterday (I realize of course that, with the exception of my sister, nobody but me actually cares but, well, take away the beer and this is all that’s left in my life – except for the dogs, of course). No, it’s not a big honkin’ monster with a cab, cd player, GPS, and a/c, but I’ve no need to plow the back 40 before lunch, either.

It is, however, a 2004 with a brand new engine and only 320 hours on the rest of it, with a front end loader and a 60″ mower deck, and it should be exactly what I need to plow the driveway, cut the grass, do some landscaping work, and help me cut and clean up the trails through my woods.

Kubota

By the way, here’s a shout-out to the good folks over in Osaka: if Kubota would like to start sponsoring this blog, I’d like to point out that I’m willing to work cheap (in descending order: a PTO-driven generator, a set of forks, plow shoes, or any item in your assortment of fine Kubota brand apparel). I will shamelessly plug whatever you want me to, and am willing to rename this the Kubota Happy Tractor Morning Fun Joy Blog (or, conversely, agree to pay me off, and I’ll keep your name out of it – whatever works for you).

Back to work tomorrow. That sucks.