Garry Meier Returns to Chicago Airwaves

This item is admittedly of limited interest, but since I'm in charge here, it's going up.

Garry Meier, after a three year absence from the airwaves, signed a contract this week to do an 8-11 morning slot on WCKG in Chicago. He's bookended by syndicated act Opie and Anthony before and Stan Lawrence and Terry Armour, who cover middays.

Radio God Steve Dahl follows Stan and Terry.

In terms of radio quality (among other things more directly and intentionally provided by my parents) I grew up a  very spoiled child.  Chicago had a number of fantastic music radio stations including WLS in its heyday and WXRT.  On the talk side, Larry Lujack, Kevin Matthews and Steve and Garry were always on the box growing up.  The latter duo probably explain the deviant habits and sense of humor I ended up developing.

Garry's an interesting guy.  He's excellent as a sidekick.  While acting as a straight man with Steve, as well as doing character voices such as Cliff (who runs the Radio and Film Ranch for Wayward Boys in Unincorporated Grundee County), Garry Meier is priceless.  I can still remember being at an old high school job with a friend of 
mine, doubling over in pain I was laughing so hard when they did a bit about 
"Cliff's" delivery of gerbils getting lost at the station. 

But he got too big for his britches and this contributed to the duo's highly publicized breakup in the early 90s.

Since then, Garry has struck out on his own and only started to find himself part of something meaningful when he paired up with Roe Conn on WLS.  The Roe and Garry breakup followed an eerily similar script as the one with Steve.

During this time, it should be noted that Steve Dahl has, for all intents and purposes, remained continuously employed and able to reinvent himself as time goes on.

After three years out of work, I'm very curious how much staying power he has after the initial "how ya been doin?" schtick wears off.  I'm equally curious how this will play with Steve and Garry both at the same station...where Steve is no doubt playing the Alpha role.

Aside from a local bombshell reunion last summer in Chicago, the two had apparently not spoken in some 12-13 years.

I'll be tuning in to the podcasts next week....

My Sweet Lord

Predictably, the fair-and-balanced folks over at Fox are running with this story above stories about the dog food scare and a how-to video for wannabe pedophiles that is circulating.

Basically, this is the same song and dance we see all the time....attention-seeking artist comes out with something meant to offend only the most moronic of zealots (whether they be genderzealots, religiozealots, politicozealots....) and, like trained dolphins, they play the game.

Some yo-yo out in New York decided to put on a show this week with a milk chocolate replica of Christ on the cross. Predictably, Bill Donohue came out complaining as if old ladies were being beaten with the Holy Chalice on their way into morning Mass.

"This is one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever."

Bill Donohue, The Catholic League

Honestly, if your faith is so fragile that some half-cocked artist can shake your foundation by melting down some Hershey bars and molding them, then it might be time for a little bit of self-examination. And for a man whose church has had more than its share of scandals recently, Billy should remember that those in glass sanctuaries should not throw stones.

Talk About a Boob Job

I was flipping through the "news" networks this evening and had to stop on BillO's FNC show.

He had what is known as a body language expert on.  She had mildly eyecatching looks and methinks that's about all she brought to the table.  Her banal observations about the Edwards couple's body language 
during the Couric interview justified turning off the volume. 

Unfortunately, what I found did not surprise me much.  Aside from sales pitches, I could not pull together much more information on Tonya Reiman.

Tonya Reiman is a Long Island based body language expert, hypnotist and professional speaker, best known for her body language analysis of political and celebrity figures on The O'Reilly Factor. While certified in hypnosis, she holds no advanced degrees in psychology or body language.

She caught TVNewser's eye awhile back., too

"He said he had a problem," Police Said

I understand a lot of vices, and pity the people who have them.

This one is just plain funny.

Hill Brings in the Bling Bling

I really have no problem whatsoever with pols getting donations from people with money, but I enjoy these stories just like I would a "religious right" Senator's name being found in a madame's black book.

Last night, our gal Hil raked in 2.6M at the home of grocery boy Ron Burkle.  Some of you may remember Ronny from his run in last year with a New York Post gossip columnist.  Burkle claimed that the guy was shaking him down in order to avoid unfavorable articles in the Murdoch rag.  This legal controversy rages on...as does the campaign.

Another New Yorker on the Ballot?

It's now possible to imagine a scenario where we have three New Yorkers, two of them having held the title of NYC Mayor, on the Presidential ballot in November 2008.

The Washington Post has a story today citing friends of the Mayor who say he has his eye on a third party candidacy and is waiting to see how the major parties line up.

The billionaire would be less constrained by funds than any of the other announced canidates.

God Bless the Jesuits!

I've watched a grand total of about 10 minutes of NCAA basketball all season long and 7 of those were the last minutes/overtime of the North Carolina v Georgetown game yesterday.  How exciting.  As a graduate of another Jesuit institution, I will be rooting for John Thompson III and the Hoyas this weekend in Hotlanta.

Chuck Hagel's Shot Across the Bow

"Any president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed _ if a president really believes that, then ... there are ways to deal with that."

Chuck Hagel as quoted by the AP

A Sensible Ruling by a Federal Judge

I'm aware that taking this stance opens me up to claims by all three of my loyal readers that I'm advocating the content protected by the ruling.  That said....

Late last week, a Federal Judge struck down a 1998 law that would require "adult" website operators to jump through hoops to verify that their visitors were of adult age.  Judge Lowell Reed Jr. argued that there are alternative and better ways for concerned parents to protect their children through commercially-available filters.

Furthermore, the benefit that these children may have by avoiding some exposure to pornography as youths would be outweighed by their watered-down rights in adulthood.

Kudos to the Judge.

While no one wants a wild wild west with no restrictions on behavior, I do tire of people who use "for the children" as an argument that can never be questioned.  To disagree with the "for the children" argument automatically brands one as "obviously against the children."

If you're against further limits on gun control, you must want children toting guns in their backpacks using them to settle playground scuffles.

If you're against making Prince perform at the Super Bowl as if he were on Sesame Street, you must be for children having free access to hardcore pornography.

If you don't want de facto censorship of smoking scenes in popular movies, then 
you must be for having cigarettes handed out as part of the school lunch program.

Bleh.

 

Gee, Thanks, W!

The LA Times and other outlets are running with a report out of the Pew Research Center that shows broad shifts in voter opinions away from the GOP and towards  the Democrats.  This trend has been going in this direction since about 2002.

In fairness, this is as much the fault of the moron in the White House as it is the GOP members of Congress for acting as enablers to his shenanigans.

I can't be the only one who notices the humour in the fact that the #s converged at 43 and then everything fell apart.

While the field is still wide open, one can't help but assume that the GOP candidate will be running pretty hard from the Bush record.

Of Five Marriages, Second (Kissing) Cousins, Third Parties and First Ladies

Turns out that Rudolph Giuliani's biography got a little more interesting in the last few days when the New York Post reported that Mrs. Giuliani has had two, not one, husbands prior to bedding America's Mayor.

I find it hard to believe that even the GOP is so hard up that they are going to look the other way on this Catholic candidate's eccentric story.  Maybe there's room for him on an alternative ticket, though, if he's still interested.

Justice Breyer Didn't Know About Iggy Pop's Sausage

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer appears on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me gameshow this weekend.  On the show, taped this past Thursday, Breyer wasn't able to match the rock star with
interesting facts....such as Iggy Pop's having gone a full year eating nothing but German sausages (is it wrong, buck?).

Be sure to tune in on your local affiliate or grab it online starting next week.

Pot Meets Kettle

The recent billion-dollar lawsuit that Viacom filed against YoutubeGoogle recently gets more interesting now that folks realize that Viacom's iFilm appears to have its own share of copyrighted material it does not own.

Hilarity ensues.

Prairie Homophobe Companion? No Way.

"The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men -- sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in overdecorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers... If they want to be accepted as couples and daddies, however, the flamboyance may have to be brought under control."

Garrison Keillor in Salon

These words got the host of A Prairie Home Companion in trouble with some gay advocacy orgnizations and media outfits. While I don't blame folks like Dan Savage for offering a loud retort to this article (your average department store could surely afford the occasional shoplifter, but they have to make examples of the ones they catch to set an example for others thinking of pulling larger schemes against them), a few things are clear to me.

• This was a satirical observation and not intended to be taken literally.  Anyone with a modicum of cultural literacy is familiar with Keillor's schtick. And in the absence of that, the rest of the column should have tipped them off.
  
• On a moral level, I don't know how much different this was from Ann Coulter's recent jab at American society's need to rehabilitate/re-educate anyone who offends.  While homosexuality was the subject of their remarks, it was in neither case the object.
• The mainstream media is not interested in this story because it was started by a soft-spoken entertainer from the Land of 10,000 Lakes, rather than a leggy blonde bombshell who likes to speak in quippy soundbites.  If you don't believe me, try GoogleNewsing "Garrison Keillor."  The result set is almost exclusively gay-oriented blogs and news outlets.

I'm going fishing out at Lake Wobegon.

The Silliest Political Event of the Day

Bubba is hitting the road today to raise money for his wife. He'll be speaking at a fundraiser on the People's Democratic Republic of the Upper West Side where folks in a spinning class will be able to watch his lips move for the affordable price of just $2300.

Power to the people.

Will John Edwards Bow Out of the Prez Race Today?

John Edwards cancelled an event in Iowa today to fly home to make an announcement on his wife's health. For those who don't recall, Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer a while back. It was believed to have been in remission. The author's thoughts and prayers are with the family.

Update-->>  Mrs. Edwards is now suffering from complications due to bone cancer, but the campaign goes on.  Personal politics aside, one has to admire or at least recognize the Edwards' way of dealing with personal adversity.  Mr. Edwards' Senate campaign kicked off shortly after the couple lost their 16-year old son in a car wreck.

I had a funny conversation with my boss on the way out of the office last night.  We decided that it would be a shame if he had dropped out of the race because all this time out of Washington and on the stump has really improved his campaigning skills...particularly his delivery of the "Two Americas" theme.  We also agreed, after learning of his new home in North Carolina, that we'd be very interested in relocating to John's America.

Vintage Bugs Bunny

I vaguely remember seeing this years ago, but I am not sure if it was on a news show or it was actually running alongside regular cartoons.  Regardless, times have changed quite a bit in terms of what's acceptable and what's not.

This is a WW-II era Bugs Bunny cartoon that does not exactly present the Japanese in the hero role, as you can tell from just the title.

Here's a history lesson on "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips."

Pelosi's Party of the People

Tonight, Comrade Pelosi will be painting the town green. A little late for St. Patrick's Day, don't you think? The same woman who proudly told the San Francisco Chronicle last fall that she wanted to return power to the common man is hobnobbing with the blue bloods just like everyone else.

From today's ABC Note:

ABC News' Jake Tapper reports that tonight "at the posh Northern Virginia estate of local real estate magnate Albert Dwoskin, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will host one of its most expensive events in recent memory -- $28,500 per couple -- featuring access to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and 10 powerful House committee chairmen."
"The event will be one of the highest-dollar fundraisers since the McCain-Feingold campaign finance limits were enacted in 2002 and it opens Democrats -- who campaigned against the GOP's 'culture of corruption' last November -- to charges of hypocrisy," adds Tapper.

I Need to Schedule a Day Off

So I can be home, eating popcorn and watching Karl Rove testify.

If today's news that the House Judiciary Committee made another step towards compelling him to testify under oath comes to its logical conclusion, this could be Karl's fate.

A dream come true for the Moveon.org folks.

Scary News!

There is some scary news coming out of the Center for Science in the Public Interest today.

Apparently, the deep-fried and/or sauce-soaked items on a Chinese menu are not good for you.

Duh.

Well, the only bright side I can see to this is a shorter line at the House of Nanking next time I visit San Francisco. If you have not been there, become a better person and do so at your earliest convenience. Don't bother with the menu...just trust the old man in the cardigan sweater. You'll thank me for it.

Misgivings About the USA PATRIOT Act

The other day, a co-worker told me that, "us folks out in Mentor are really good people."  I jokingly voiced skepticism about anyone who had to proclaim their goodness to me instead of just demonstrating it.

Likewise, as standup comedians will often rhetorically ask, "does a real academic pursuit have to be followed by 'studies?'"  College kids don't major in "Chemistry Studies" or "Philosophy Studies" but we find this trend more and more in the ethno-centric "studies" programs.

Likewise, I've always been skeptical of the USA PATRIOT Act.  While it's actually an acronym too ridiculous to bother copying in this free space, I'm making a mental note to never again trust someone who names a law after the virtue they're trying to convince me it's based on.  I shouldn't have to be told that this law is patriotic.  Show me that instead in the way you act upon it.

Screw the agencies who have been abusing this legislation and good for congresspeople on both sides of the aisle for taking them to task today.

Is a Missing Kid in North Carolina Really The Most Important Thing Going on in the World Today?

I feel for any parents whose children are missing. Believe me, I do.

But while CNN can look down its nose at Fox News for detailing high speed car chases in Miami and LA, I think they are no better, perhaps even morally worse, for fawning over all these missing child stories.

At least watching the chases (or Paris Hilton stories, for that matter) we admit that we're engaging in idle pleasures, but CNN and other outlets like to dress this up as a public service rather than the ratings-grab that it is. Shame on them.

I get why they do it, but it really does reduce any lagging respect I may have had for them.

Will President Bush Cut and Run?

It's a rare occasion when I don't really have a strong feeling on things, but I am not so sure if old Shrub is going to cut and run from his Texas attorney or not. He certainly voiced strong support for Rummy only a week before he was sent packing, so what do we have to rely on here?

Have there been any other lost causes that Bush has stuck with when he should have wised up long ago?

Nawwwww.....

Hillary Clinton in 2008 in 1984

I don't know if this will make it to the air during the CBS coverage of the NCAA Sweet 16 this weekend, but I can tell you that it would drive me to tune in!

There's a new ad floating around  the YouTubeiverse for Barack Obama ...or at least against Hillary Clinton.  It blends footage from Apple Computer's famous 1984 ad with a speech from New York's junior senator.

The Obama campaign denies any formal involvement in this ad, but really, who cares?

The junkie in me hopes that this is just the first in an 18-month orgy of "whodunit" creative political ads!

Enjoy.

Frank Pentangeli Reincarnated as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

  



  
Last week, it was announced that Khalid Sheikh Hohammed sang like a bird under questioning and admitted to just about everything but stealing the Lindbergh baby.

Why anyone thinks that his words necessarily bear any resemblence to truth is beyond me, but I couldn't help but be reminded of the scene in Godfather II when Frank Pentangeli, under enourmous pressure,  recants all his testimony to the federales.

I know, I know it's not entirely the same thing (because Pentangeli actually told the truth in private), but humour me....

PENTANGELI:

Look the FBI guys promised me a deal. So I made up a lot of stuff about MICHAEL Corleone 'cause that's what they wanted -- but it was all lies -- uh -- everything. And I kept saying -- MICHAEL Corleone did this and MICHAEL Corleone did that -- .uh -- so I said yea sure, why not.

Irish Wannabes

Although I suspect this problem exists all over, having gone to college in Chicago, I have met more than my share of Irish Wannabes.

I can try to explain these cats to you, the uninitiated, but Steve Dahl put it pretty succinctly in his Trib column from the other day.

My favorite thing about St. Patrick's Day is watching the
"professional Irishmen" crank up their act. A "professional Irishman" is one of
those men or women (but usually men) who can't let you forget that they're
Irish. They do this with Notre Dame hats and sweatshirts, a feigned interest in
European football and plenty of Black and Tan references.

Of course, I am posting this up while listening to a Pogues bootleg tape, but that's another story.

Web Analytics and the Presidential Campaign

I found an interesting post on the web analytics packages the various announced Presidential candidates are using. This guy hovered around the sites looking for which scripts were running.

While no one should be surprised that the free and easy Google Analytics seems to be the package of choice, Mitt Romney uses Omniture...which is based out of Orem, UT.

Coincidence?

Al Gore for President...and for Trimspa?

Eleanor Clift writes in MSNBCNewsweek that Fat Albert has taken a few notches off the belt lately and is well aware of the signal that sends to the Hillary campaign. The FOH crowd reads this loud and clear.

Update--  The former Vice President is set to testify in front of two congressional committees (Dingell's House Energy committee and Boxer's Enviroment and Public Works Senate committee) on Wednesday.  Drudge has some of the questions that are allegedly circulating around DC.

Tom Delay...That Little Weasel

As both of my loyal readers know, I've posted here before about how some on the left like to cite having their patriotism questioned when they take certain stances on the war.  I was unaware of anytime that this actually happened.

Until today.

That scuzzy little Tom Delay was on Meet the Press this morning and among other zingers said that once troops go into battle, the whole country should fall into blind obedience.

This is how the former exterminator from Sugarland ruined my breakfast this morning.

MR. RUSSERT: Mr. Delay, you raise an interesting point in an interview--in your political column. You talked about congressmen advocating withdrawal, and you conclude by saying, "Yes, I am questioning their patriotism." Why is that?

FMR. REP. DeLAY: Well, I--it, it is my opinion that when you go to war, we ought to all come together. You can debate going to war, that's a legitimate debate. But once you have our soldiers and our, our young people dying on the battlefield, we should come together, and we shouldn't have what we had yesterday on the Mall of, of, of--in Washington, D.C. When the--those are not, in my mind--my opinion, patriots that are talking about impeaching the commander in chief, that are--that are--work as, as Tom's group works....

MR. RUSSERT: But setting a date for--is setting a date for withdrawal...

FMR. REP. DeLAY: ...every step of the day, undermine--I think it's aiding and abetting the enemy. When you tell the enemy what your strategy is, that's aiding and abetting the enemy because they can use that strategy to come back and harm your soldiers.

Bob Dylan Sings Dr. Seuss?

The consensus seems to be that this is a fake, but it's amusing nonetheless.

Nod to my friend Jeff for the link.

http://www.dylanhearsawho.com/home.htm

NHL Doles Out Longest Suspension in History

It's not my habit to put sports items up here, but this one caught my eye. Today, the NHL suspended Chris Simon for 25 games, which effectively ends his regular season and any post-season that his New York Islanders could be a part of.  He's under a 1 year contract and, at 35 years of age, one has to wonder if this is the nail in his coffin.

He chopped some other dude "like he was cutting down a tree" according to the announcers.  I concur.  Ouch. You get the best picture of just how good he got him around 10 seconds before the end.





Anyway, the reason this story jumped out at me is that he was just featured this week on HBO's Real Sports w/ Bryant Gumble.  I enjoy the human interest stories about sports, so I occasionally tune in.  The segment he was in was about Islanders coach Ted Nolan, an Indian from Canada and some of the struggles he's gone though in the league.  Back in the day, Nolan helped Simon get off the sauce and they'd remained friends ever since.

Well, no hockey posting would be complete without a picture of Slapshot's Hanson Brothers.

Enjoy.

"A Woman Can Never Be President"

I'm glad that Johah Goldberg over at National Review is noting this one.

The gist is that Hillary Clinton likes to trot around indignantly relating to us that people come up to her all the time and tell her that a woman can't be elected president.

Who are these people?  How do they get through her security detail and campaign bubble?

Honestly, this reminds me of a similar line those on the left, most notably John Kerry, have made good use of in the last few years, carping that 'so-and-so Republican is questioning my patriotism!!!'

Maybe someone can correct me, but I never heard them cite an individual or a verifiable instance where a Republican stood up and said, "That John Kerry.  He wants to pull out of the war.  He's no patriot."

Off to breakfast...

Demand-side Music Download Pricing

I heard about this the other day on CNET's Buzz Outloud podcast.

Amie Street is a music download service that has an interesting pricing policy.  All music posted up starts off free, but as more people downlaod the music, the price goes up.  This seems like an interesting way for lesser-known artists to introduce themselves.

It takes 98 downloads for a song to  hit the ceiling of 98 cents, which then makes it comparable with the flat-fee iTunes.

Barenaked Ladies is one of the first bigger-known bands to sign on.

Newt Gingrich, CNN and Media Bias?

I understand CNN running the story about Newt Gingrich telling James Dobson that he was gettin' some fries with that shake during the Monica Lewinsky/ Bubba Impeachment saga. He's a man who puts himself in the spotlight, commenting often on various things.

No problem there.

However, the picture that CNN chooses to run here can't leave much question about what's going on.

Newt is not the most handsome cat to ever grace my screen, but good golly. I could even grant them a pass if this picture was with his honey pie, but it is not.

Shame.

Anyway, considering that some of your tax dollars may be going to fund the presidential election, you may as well make it a good one. Draft Newt Gingrich!

Pardon Scooter Libby

The National Review, no surprise, has come out with an editorial item today prodding the Administration to pardon Big Time's former Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, in the Plame Game investigation.

I agree.

While I'm no current fan of 43 or his running of the country, Scooter was the fall guy here and I've yet to see any real injury to the Plames.  If anything, this was the most advantageous 'outing' I've ever seen!

There should have been no referral, no special counsel, no indictments, and no trial. The “CIA-leak case” has been a travesty. A good man has paid a very heavy price for the Left’s fevers, the media’s scandal-mongering, and President Bush’s failure to unify his own administration. Justice demands that Bush issue a pardon and lower the curtain on an embarrassing drama that shouldn’t have lasted beyond its opening act.

-The editors of the National Review

For All Who Detest Robin Quivers

Thank goodness for Robinswrong.com. If Howard Stern won't put Robin Ophelia in her place, at least we can get some pleasure from airing her errors publicly.

Why the MSM Wants Gore in the Race

I'm pretty far behind on posting this one up, but ABC's Note had one the better theories around on why the mainstream media seems to have made Al Gore their darling as of late.

It will make popping his balloon all that much more fun down the line!

From the 23-Feb Note

Basically, the political press wants to tempt Al Gore into the race, and then they will destroy him as a flip-flopping, exaggerating, stiff, loser. And Gore knows this

Ritz Cracker is More Like It

Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was raised in Park Ridge, IL, spoke to the hoi polloi in Selma, AL yesterday during events marking the anniversary of the 1965 Civil Rights march.

While we always knew that Hillary had a sharp tongue, it appears her throat is quite gifted, too. It's able to relax its patrician tendencies and allowing that suh-thuhn feel to just flow.

Check out the audio of her new southern-fried accent.





God, I'm glad this woman ran.

Keeping an Open Heart Towards John McCain

Primarily over the war, I gave up on National Review some time back in favor of Pat Buchanan's American Conservative.

While I have not picked up this print edition yet, nor read the article, I have not second-guessed my decision to cancel my subscription, especially after seeing the cover.

On ideological grounds, I'm a strong fan of neither John Wayne McCain nor Rudy Giuliani.  Convservatives should know better than to put their energies behind a candidate who's shown little affection, and even downright hostility towards them in the past, in the hopes that favors will be rewarded on principle later on down the line.

They should follow former President Clinton's advice to put aside the "politics of personal destruction," avoid a lot of dabbling in candidates' personal affairs and draft Newt Gingrich, dammit!  While I'm intrigued by the prospects of a President Newt, even if he loses, the depraved political junkie in me starts to dance a little jig when I consider settling in next fall to watch a debate between Hillary and Dr. Gingrich.

Spring is in the Air

Even though I just came inside from shoveling a little bit of March snow that fell overnight, I can tell that warm times are around the bend.

This afternoon, WGN runs its first pre-season baseball game of the year. The Scrubs are playing the White Sox at 3 EST. Check your cable provider for station.

"Next year" is here!

Ann Coulter, John Edwards and Anti-Gay Slurs

Personally, I find Ann Coulter's behavior about as interesting and original as one of the mildly smart kids in the high school class taking a crap in the middle of the basketball court during a game just to see how people react.  

But this should make for a good wrap-up item on some of the Sunday shows.

For those who don't care to watch, Ann Coulter, speaking at the CPAC conference this week implicitly called former Senator John Edwards a 'f@ggot.'

All class.

For what it's worth, at the time of this post, CPAC had a picture of Ms. Coulter on their homepage.  Will be interesting to see if they take it off.

My Favorite Streaming Radio Stations

I grew up listening to 93.1 WXRT, broadcasting out of Chicago.  In addition to a great mixture of current and classic rock, they carry Breakfast with the Beatles, David Gans' Grateful Dead Hour on Sundays and a perfect way to start your weekend with Saturday Morning Flashback.   



While it wasn't on the air when I was in school in the Twin Cities, Minnesota Public Radio's The Current is keeping it real.  The Current caters to the modern rock crowd.



Based out of Freedom, on California's beautiful Central Coast, KPIG (107-OINK-5) gives me my regular fix of twangy, country-ish rock-and-roll.  You'll hear stuff here that you probably won't get on any other commercial radio stations.  Unfortunately, this requires a Real Audio RealPass.

President Fred Thompson?

Brit Hume's Special Report ran a Carl Cameron item today saying that Fred Thompson presidential rumours are picking up some steam.  I can't find a reliable link to the story as of this time, though.

Carrying on the Gipper's Hollywood connection could be a good thing, perhaps.

He may be more palatable to the conservatives and more electable than Johnny-Come-Lately-Conservative Mitt Romney in the general.