I find it more difficult to sit and post my thoughts these days.   I don’t know if it’s a lack of time, or just an inability to process the absurdity around me into coherent paragraphs.

Take for a moment, the David Letterman Fiasco. For years we’ve been asking celebrities to own up to their mistakes.  To admit when they are wrong.  And to force themselves to the public humiliation they deserve.  And when some scum of the universe tried to “ruin” Letterman through extortion and blackmail, Letterman shocked his late night audience with an admission of guilt, preempting the tabloids.  He did exactly what we ask a celebrity to do when faced with the revelations of his impropriety.  And yet still, people want to find fault with him.  Good for David for coming clean.  The man didn’t commit adultery, didn’t harass anyone, and didn’t commit a crime.  He simply had poor judgement.  I hope this teaches extortionists a lesson.

Speaking of extortion – the IOC allowed Chicago business people to pour $54 million into wooing them into awarding them the Olympics, and then responded with 18 measly votes.  If there is any organization dirtier than the IOC (other than the NCAA of course) I’m hard pressed to find it.  How do I get on the IOC anyway?  I sure wouldn’t mind taking bribes from the richest people from 4 countries every 4 years, to award them the chance to ask their tax payers to build a billion dollars of new stadiums to host an event celebrating the achievements of athletes we couldn’t care less about the other 1445 days of the 4 year cycle.  But, is it really that shocking that one of the most overweight cities in America – where beer and brats reign supreme – wasn’t awarded an event that celebrates athleticism?

In the category of, “Can we finally kill reality TV once and for all,” I saw that the fat guy from the TV show with all the kids whose wife had a makeover and suddenly thought she was a superstar, allegedly took $200k from their bank account.  I’m sad that I know this.  But, I know this because it scrolled across the bottom of Anderson Cooper 360.  Mr. Cooper, I try to keep myself away from this nonsense, and I try to watch you to keep up with real news.  Please do not create a world where I cannot do both.    

All things being equal, I need to write more.  There’s just too much funny stuff going on these days…