FIU Welcomes

Minnesota's newest senator: MN Senator Al Franken Al Franken! Well done, Minnesota!

Rough week...

Since my salute to Ed McMahon post last week, three more well-known celebrities have passed away: Farrah Fawcett, Micheal Jackson and Billy Mays. That's a really crummy week from a pop-culture standpoint. T&P for their families.

Preach it, brother!

Rob at Say Anything: This actually illustrates a rather broad concept among liberals. The idea that nothing can be allowed to fail. Unions don’t let companies, or public schools, fire bad workers. Or they make it prohibitively difficult to do so. Nationally, Obama and his liberals haven’t been willing to let unionized companies like GM and Chrysler fail so that they can be replaced by companies that can be run at a profit. They haven’t been willing to let banks fail either. Liberals forget that failure, in a free market and free society, is as important as success. Failure allows for the bad to be replaced by the good. Failure is a part of life. It should be a part of life, anyway. Remember, this same concept is what allows kids that are of deficient grade level to get promoted up through the grades - unwillingness of those to allow them to fail, even if it's for their own good. Can't hurt their feelings. Get them through the system and gone. Get paid either way.

RIP, Ed...

Hiyoooo!

JR Ewing Movie Review: Hes Just Not That Into You

This one has been out for a little while so this is probably old news to most of you and not that helpful. However, I'm going to post it regardless of your feelings so get a helmet and shut your trap. It was definitely a girlie movie or "chick flick" and not something I would suggest a single guy rent on his own. However, my wife thoroughly enjoyed it and it really was not that bad. Many parts were actually mildly amusing and probably less than 10 minutes of the movie I found myself plotting my own death - which is pretty good for this genre of film. Scarlett Johansson is in it and actually didn't look all that superb. I know I just typed that. Neither did Jennifer Connelly though, so I'm thinking there was some jealous Nazi make-up, wardrobe and/or lighting director that did all she could to make them look bad. Anyway the movie is basically about relationships and love and an over-the-top cheesy depiction of how women approach that stuff. Again as long as that is what you were expecting it really wasn't too painful. The only part that was really done poorly was casting Justin Long as a bar manager that uses and then tosses model-type girls away left and right. In real life Justin Long the semi-famous actor guy couldn't get that much quality 'nanny that easy if he were in a "Who Wants to Hump Justin Long For Ten Million Dollars" reality TV show. ...but I digress. If you're looking for something to barter in return for renting the new Clint Eastwood movie that I'm going to watch next weekend or the newest of the Poison Ivy movies, guys this is a pretty good one.

Oh the humanity!

It's like one of my worst nightmares realized... Nestle USA says its baking unit has voluntarily recalled Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after a number or illnesses were reported by those who ate the dough raw. Probably a problem inherited from Bush somehow...