Quick Hits

Over Memorial Day a thought struck me. What did the loud mouth little weasel Bill Maher have to say about American servicemen? You remember smug little Bill - the little weasel that said al Quaida’s 9-11 mass murderers who flew airliners into the ground and famous buildings had more courage than Americans who flew airplanes into battle. Well what did we have to say about the courage of the American fighting men in Fallujha? Did little Bill have any problem with the courage on display there and in scores of other Iraqi cities?

I was driving along half-listening to my wife read Henny Penny to the kids – yea I know, libs who drive along while talking on their cells, checking stock numbers on their Blackberries and sipping double soy lattes will be appalled at my lack of attention. But that’s kind of the point. Henny Penny is the ideal lib. She runs around sounding the alarm for every emergency, real and imagined and ends up getting everybody but herself in trouble. “The earth is cooling! The next ice age is upon us!!” shouted Henny Lib during my school daze. Now Lex Jr. hears Henny Lib shouting, “The earth is warming! Oh! The Humanity!!” Henny Lib is willing to do anything but give up the 50 room mansions – two for each climate, the fleet of limos and the wing of G-5 aircraft to “make a difference.” Henny Lib rails against the Second Amendment, all the while surrounding herself with gun toting bodyguards. Just like Henny Penny, Henny Lib ends up at home safe and sound while leading her friends to destruction with her senseless hand wringing. Henny Lib expects everyone to lead the miserable life that she directs so that she can feel better about herself living in splendor.

Well there really is a Deep Throat. I have always thought that he was a figment of Woodward and Bernstein’s imagination. I thought DT was sort of like Dan Rather’s phony documents, or Newsweak’s Koran story – nothing more than a means to an end that the reporter believed to be true but just can’t prove. So they make up some “unnamed source” or phony documents to fill in the gaps. Well who’s to say this is the real DT?

Michael Jackson’s trial is almost over – thank God. Who knows and who cares what the outcome will be? We all knew Michael wasn’t right a long time ago. What kind of parent would allow their child to spend unsupervised time with a guy, irrespective of his considerable fame and talent, as just plain weird as Jackson?