Show Prep: 9/7/10
Without a left wing and a right wing the plane don’t fly.
That said:
1. Mark Hurd, after being dismissed by the HP board for using company cash to buy a booth bunny a couple of non-business related dinners, waltzes into a fat job with Oracle. First of all, if that was the extent of his transgressions, it’s an ever so small corporate misdemeanor that would normally have resulted in the slightest tap of a wrist slap. So we’ll never know the degree of corporate or personal malfeasance he actually indulged in. What we do know is that bucks for bastards continues to be the highest rated reality show in the world.
2. The President’s economic team and policies are so all over the map, with simultaneous and contradictory rhetoric about tax cuts and deficit reduction, that they make flailing seem like a mild state to long for. Contorted posturing for votes is getting so out of hand that few are the office holders traveling without chiropractors.
3. That there’s even a debate about closing the few public libraries in Camden NJ, one of the poorest and most crime ridden cities in the nation, is a disgrace and literally writes off any possibility of any of its younger citizens achieving what I think used to be called the American Dream. In a town where grand larceny rather than saving is the sole method of obtaining a computer and an internet connection, shutting down the public libraries, with their books and public internet access, guarantees that recidivists are going to out-number high school graduates. A land of opportunity with a permanent underclass is an oxymoronic, as well as just plain moronic, expression and condition.
4. If ever there were a covert CIA operation worth engaging in, it would be, um, detaining the Reverend Terry Jones of the The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainsville Florida and convincing him to curb his zeal to lead a public Koran burning. When future Presidential candidate and current General David Patraeus, who heads the war effort in Afghanistan, is compelled to go public with the obvious but necessary statement that “Were the actual burning to take place, the safety of our soldiers and civilians would be put in jeopardy and accomplishment of the mission would be made more difficult”, you know the Reverend Jones has put his own self-aggrandizement way ahead of any concern for his fellow man. If a Danish cartoon depicting Allah can incite mass rioting, a holy book burning can incite an unholy conflagration.
We’re clearly water-boarding the wrong people. Have a nice day.
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