Do you want us to win in Iraq?

It's amazing how many people won't answer that question. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a fan of Bill O'Reilly. In the last few weeks, I have seen him ask this question to several people while on his media blitz for his new book. But what is surprising is that no one will answer the question. Usually the response is something like "Well, the administration lied to us and..." For one reason or another we went into Iraq, and that is a debate to itself. But the question he is asking is a simple one. Would you like to see us, the American military, squash the killers and bring some kind of peace and democracy to the country? Or would you like to see the killers run our fine people out of the country in disgrace? It's really a yes or no answer, and if you answer no, I'd have to question your motives. At hand here are people that hate the administration so much for the mistakes that have been made, they actually want us to be humilated in Iraq, but are afraid to say it outright on camera. What's funny is that when a question that easy is asked of you, and you answer with theory and conjecture, the viewers that have any idea what is going on realize you just said "No."

Is this real?

Football? Or basketball?

Ok, I wasn't going to rant about this. I thought it was a little thin, and it probably still is, but I just saw it again. For the third time tonight I saw a NY Giant motion a basketball shot after a good play. One was after a sack and one was just after the latest interception; I can't recall the other one. What the heck does that mean? How is that even expressing your excitement? Woo hoo! I scored two points in a sport I don't even play. Can't we just get back to the old standard of muscle flexing and the ass-slapping?

Stupid Raiders fan

Ok, so I was torn today between wanting the Raiders to go 0-16 and wanting to see Denny go crazy again this week. I can't wait to see what Denny punches tonight on SportsCenter. But that's not why we're here today. So the Raiders fans are going crazy and the camera sweeps by one fan holding up a personalized license plate. The plate reads: "RAI8ERS." Now, isn't that cute. Our Raiders fan has a little stutter. The plate, as spelled, is pronounced "ray-ATE-ers." That is all.

Oh, SNL

It's another season of SNL and there's really no point in talking about it. It's not a very good show, and it doesn't look like it will ever be again. It's fun to watch the show on those rare occasions that your favorite actor is on, but even then, they can't seem to come through (Jason Lee last season). But why I'm here today is for the Weekend Update. When are they going to learn that the news segment is not the time to slip in more sketches? Keep the Weekend Update to the news. The news is generally funny and quick paced, but when they slow it down with silly skits that don't fit, it pisses me off. That's it. No more skits in the news.