The Random Thought Generator on overdrive....

by northstar at 02:27 PM on August 01, 2002

Dick Cheney IS still Vice-President, isn't he?? Has anyone seen him in the past few weeks? This is beginning to feel like the old "aging Soviet leader death watch" from the Cold War. Actually, Cheney does sort of resemble Yuri Andropov....

Al-Qaeda is reportedly forming new cells. This makes me wish I hadn't slept through 10th-grade Biology. Cell division always baffled me....

New research is out that links cancer in cats to second-hand smoke. Damn; now I have to figure out a way to convince my dog to stop smoking....

OK, so he's 52 years old. Who cares?? Bruce Springsteen is still The Boss. I just bought his new album, and, lest I date myself, if I listen to it with my eyes closed, I'm back in college again. I would highly recommend it.

The first anniversary of 9.11 is just a few weeks away. Will the media pull out all stops in an effort to gain ratings points? They would never be so crass...would they? Really??

Weblogs are beginning to play a role in keeping mainstream media honest. The current whipping boy seems to be the New York Times. Hey, it wouldn't hurt if it weren't true....

A suggestion for all the women in the studio audience: if you're going to use your Mercedes to murder your husband, don't leave it parked on top of him. That could be considered bad form....

By the end of this season, I will have been to four Major League parks (it would have been five, if the Twins had been in town while I was in Minneapolis). I'm wondering, though; will be there be a season to celebrate come October?

From the "Some People Just Deserve Each Other" Department: a couple in Houston ended up in the hospital last night after they stabbed one another during an argument. Thank God these two are inflicting themselves on each other....