First they were in hotels, then in retail stores, finally movie theaters.  Now, bed bugs may in your office too. Yup, the little hitchikers have made it into the working world.  They’re taking over the cubicles, break rooms and even the file drawers.  They’ll move in anywhere they can find space.  It’s just disgusting, they seem to be the lice of the modern age.  Hardy, fast traveling and virtually impossible to eradicate.  I don’t know about you, but this news just makes me feel itchy all over.  Gotta go scratch!

home of the brave and also the insanely stupid.  I caught wind of this headline today:

Why do 1 in 5 Americans believe President Obama is Muslim?

I’m sorry, what?!  And this actually comes from a distinguished source, the Pew Research Center took a poll indicating that 18% of Americans think Obama is Muslim.  Bizarre.  I mean I just don’t understand how these people completely missed the memo about his being a Christian.  Sure he’s not overtly practicing the way Bill Clinton was, but still.  Did they even follow the last election?  I’m absolutely flabbergasted.

comes out of retirement…again.  And all it took was $20 million dollars.  Who says we’re living in a bad economy?  I say we all retrain and become NFL quarterbacks.

The Frog and I have been watching The Wire this past year and we both agree it is some seriously brilliant television.  What we didn’t realize is how prescient it truly was.  In it a dirty politician finesses his way out of corruption charges using nothing but his silver tongue.  Couldn’t really happen, right?  Unless you’re Rod Blagojevich.  The ex-Illinois governor’s trial ended in a deadlock on 23 counts and conviction on just one…lying to federal agents.  So the only thing he’s guilty of is lying about not lying?  Only in America people, only in America.

The democratic representative from Florida came out with a doozy this week.  He’s frustrated, and rightly so, that nothing coming out of the House is being taken up by the Senate.  Here’s his quote direct from TheHill.com (and paraphrased a bit by moi):

It doesn’t make a difference if the Republicans in the Senate are blocking everything they can.  At this point, if you put a cure for cancer up in the Senate, it would get filibusters

Sad but true Congressman, sad but true.

Apparently the Republicans are all about freedom of religion until it hurts someone’s feelings.  They came out in force this weekend against President Obama after he made an impassioned plea for the mosque at ground zero.  Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) wants to make this an election issue.  Cornyn believes that Obama is disconnected from Americans’ feelings on this issue and said that, “voters would render their verdict in November.”  He went on to say that Americans don’t like “being lectured to”.  Um, Senator did it every occur to you that New Yorkers don’t want to be lectured to either, particularly by some asshat Texan?

President Obama announced that he will be swimming on Florida’s Gulf Coast this weekend.  He won’t take press though because ostensibly he was photographed shirtless in the past and wound up on the cover of several magazines.  Now I have to say if I never see another president in his bathing suit that would be just fine with me.  However, I think he’s being disingenuous on this one.  He banned the paparazzi not because of shyness, but to avoid having someone photograph him floating amongst the tar balls.  What do you think?

I’ve been noticing recently that headlines are getting a bit strange.  They use slang, bad grammar, and often they are misspelled.  Now they’ve gone cutesy.  Like this headline today:

Baby born on 8/9/10 at 11:12

This is news?!  And on CNN.com no less.  I think journalism is well and truly dead.

Anne Rice used to be one of my favorite authors. I loved the lurid mythology and worlds she created in her vampire novels. Heck, I even watched Interview with a Vampire and survived a blonde Tom Cruise as Lestat. Then she started writing about Christ. Interesting, I thought. I mean nobody really ever talks about what he was doing between the ages of about 9 to 30, so there’s lots of room for historical interpretation. Except, the books were crowded with names, places, groups of people, but not with much insight into what the Christ was thinking.  Well other than that he didn’t want to be “the Christ”. Last week when I read in numerous articles that Anne Rice had “quit” Christianity via her Facebook page, I found myself wondering can you really unfriend an entire religion?

Now that his engagement is off, this joker has announced he’s running for Mayor of Wasilla.  And…he’s working on an new reality show.  Mark your calendars, the Levi era has begun.