Alright, what’ll it be today? Weather? Sports? Lazy media and hypocritical Teabaggers? Sarah Palin?

Let’s see, as for weather – snow. When I went out yesterday morning, we had, oh, I’d guess about 4 or 5 inches of fresh snow. So I figured I’d better plow (in my flannel robe – hanging out below my jacket – and Elmer Fudd hat, I was looking pretty dapper, if I do say so myself – not unlike Randy Quaid in Independence Day, without the cigar, which would really complete the look, I think, so I may have to take them up, at least while on the tractor).

Of course, there was another 5 or 6 inches when I got home, so I had to plow again (I have some pretty impressive piles of snow around here – higher than the front end loader can reach at this point, and it was all gone just a couple weeks ago), and I reckon there are yet another few inches out there waiting for me this morning.

I was able to get things cleared out just before 7:00 last night , which was key because (watch out, here comes sports) that’s when the Syracuse-St. John’s basketball game started from Madison Square Garden, which, despite being 5 hours or so away from here, and despite it being the Red Storm’s (a rather crappy name – they were formerly the Red Men, but that was just a wee bit racist, so they changed it) home court is considered (by the national media) to be a home game for Syracuse. In fact, they’ve recently expanded the area considered to be our “home” turf to include all of New York and New Jersey.

Geographically speaking, you may as well throw in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. In fact, SU fans take over the Verizon Center so completely whenever we play there, that Georgetown has concocted a scheme to try and keep Syracuse fans from buying tickets. Silly Hoyas. I guess they’ve never heard of StubHub.

Anyhow, in case you were wondering (and you know you were – admit it), after a typically abysmal start, SU stomped all over SJU, plowing through them like a Kubota through a foot of Lake Effect Snow (see, ‘cuz they were wearing their Orange away uniforms and St. John’s had their home white, so…oh, never mind) to go 17-0 on the season, and win its 1,800th game (fifth on the all-time wins list). I mention this mostly because it won’t continue indefinitely, and I figure I ought to get it out there just in case they lose to Cincinnati at home on Saturday – which you can be certain I won’t mention if it happens).

Of course, with Duke dropping their first game of the season last night, should SU pick up win number 1,801, they may move up a notch to #3 in the polls. Though that’s not a given. Duke is one of those teams that could lose a game and move up in the polls (except they’re already #1), and the pollsters love to crap all over Syracuse (because no matter where they play, it’s a home game, and because there are so many SU alums in sportscasting that they either bend over backwards to be “fair” or are despised by their colleagues, who know they’re nowhere near as good).

OK, back to weather. Newsflash: NYC plowed their streets after a snowstorm (assuming you can count what they got yesterday as a “storm”). Mayor Bloomie can hardly contain the pride he feels for himself.

Let’s see, Arizona. President Obama went there yesterday and spoke at a memorial service, telling everybody not to assign blame and use this tragedy as a teaching event or something. You have to wonder why the Republicans and Teabaggers hate him so much – he always seems to be there looking out for them, and making sure their point of view is represented and they get their way in pretty much everything. If he had an ‘R’ next to his name and bleached his skin tone down a notch or two, he’d be the second coming of Ronald Reagan.

Oh, I know, I know. He can’t come out and denounce the rightwing haters and the lazy urinalism that reports false equivalency between a concerted effort in the konservative echo chamber and Republican establishment to demonize Democrats and liberals, and a random commenter or two on some blog somewhere (I’m only hurt that they’ve never taken anything I’ve had to say and used it). He can’t do that, any more than he could fight for single payer health care, Net Neutrality, Wall St. reform, or, well, pretty much anything.

Of course, in all of this, it’s really Sarah Palin you have to feel bad for. She’s such a victim – people are being meanies to her, and there are even death threats against her (so she says – and I for one would never doubt her). Poor Sarah. I wonder if all those dead and wounded people in Tucson ever even gave her a thought when they went out and got themselves shot?

Does it strike you as odd that, had this nutcase been a Marilyn Manson fan or something, the Konservatives would be falling all over each other to denounce this dirty, dirty, rock and roll, and playing his music backwards claiming it says, “kill gabby, kill gabby” (to be honest, I can’t even understand what the f*ck he’s saying when it’s played forward), and preaching personal responsibility and the consequences of one’s actions? I mean, wasn’t it one of their heroes who said, “there ought to be limits to free speech?”

Anyhow, let’s get back to weather. The forecast for the next few days appears to be snow, windy, and cold, really f*cking cold and snow, really cold overnight, and then not quite as cold (and snow), and cold and snow.

On the bright side, both Bill Maher and Big Love start up again. I’ll be interested to see what Bill has to say, and what the world needs now is Love, Big Love.

Okay, everybody snap your fingers and sing along….