I saw a bit of the interview with Gabby Gifford’s husband (pretty hard to avoid, even if you wanted to), and he talked about hearing how his wife had been killed while en-route to Tucson with his kids. Used to be they’d, like, check their facts before they’d report shit like that, but of course those days are long gone. Be first – don’t worry about being correct.

Sarah Palin says she won’t shut up. That’s good. As an insignificant and unpopular (not to mention annoying) fringe element whose 15 minutes have long since passed, she really shouldn’t have to. There’s no reason for “the media” to give her all the attention she gets (and craves), and it would be nice if they’d just ignore her. To quote The Who – “…let’s forget you, better still.”

Speaking of people who should be quickly forgotten, as everybody knows by now, it appears that our Pal Joey from CT has seen the handwriting on the wall, and won’t be running again. Part of me would prefer to see him run and lose, rather than be allowed to ride triumphantly off into the sunset as a legend in his own mind. And no doubt walk right into a lucrative job where he can keep screwing the public – but with a much higher profit margin. But then I suppose there’s a better chance for a Democrat to win with him not mucking things up (for whatever a Democrat in the Senate is worth these days, which, frankly – other than Al Franken, maybe – doesn’t seem to be much).

Today is Jean Stapleton’s 88th birthday. Hopefully she’ll celebrate with a few cans of cling peaches.

I didn’t get to see much of it, but yesterday was a nice, warm day here. It had kind of an annoying start, as I was part of what looked like a twenty mile long procession of cars following a salt truck for about three-quarters of my ride in. Our top speed was about 40, but mostly we were in the 25-30 range. Kind of annoying, but what the hell. It’s not like I have to punch a clock.

Things are supposed to get really cold here as the day goes on – and down below zero for the weekend. Oh boy. I really need to go and get a bunch of lumber to do some projects around here (not that I can really afford it; just paid the taxes, mortgage is coming up in a few days, a couple hundred for the utilities, cable, Internet…).

I guess I’ll just have to watch football and basketball all weekend instead.